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Solana's Alpenglow upgrade goes live to cut finality to 150 milliseconds

CoinDesk reports that Solana's Alpenglow upgrade is due to activate on Wednesday, moving validator voting off-chain to target roughly 150-millisecond finality instead of about six seconds.

Why it matters: The upgrade changes how quickly Solana transactions become irreversible and how much validators pay to run, two factors that shape trading and payment use of the network.

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Key points

  • The upgrade targets finality of about 150 milliseconds, against roughly six seconds on 21 October and about 13 minutes for Ethereum.
  • Validator vote fees of about 2 SOL a day are replaced by a 0.8 SOL admission ticket per epoch, roughly 60% cheaper.

Solana's Alpenglow upgrade is scheduled to go live on Wednesday, CoinDesk reports, replacing the voting system the network has used since 2020. The change moves validator voting off-chain and bundles votes into certificates, targeting finality of about 150 milliseconds rather than roughly six seconds.

By comparison, Ethereum takes about 13 minutes to reach full finality.

Validators also face a smaller bill. Alpenglow replaces those fees with a flat admission ticket of 0.8 SOL per epoch, a period of about 24 hours, which is roughly 60% cheaper.

The launch follows months of testing. Robin Nordnes, chief executive of Raiku, said transaction counts will look much lower in the week of 19 October because validator votes are no longer counted on-chain.

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