Solana will activate its Alpenglow upgrade on Wednesday at epoch 1064, moving validator voting off-chain to cut finality from about 6 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds. Voting fees of about 2 SOL a day will be replaced by a 0.8 SOL admission fee per epoch, a roughly 60% cost cut, Galaxy Digital says.
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Solana's Alpenglow upgrade, replacing TowerBFT and cutting finality to about 150 milliseconds, has launched, moving validator votes off-chain and packaging them into certificates. It will activate at epoch 1064, with voting fees replaced by a 0.8 SOL per-epoch admission fee. Solana said it replaced its mainnet…
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Solana to activate Alpenglow upgrade at epoch 1064
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