Solana said it replaced its mainnet consensus protocol with the new Alpenglow protocol on 21 Oct. Alpenglow targets transaction finality of about 150 milliseconds.
The story so far: Solana Alpenglow upgrade
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 says it has swapped mainnet consensus for Alpenglow
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