Solana’s Alpenglow Upgrade Poised for 100× Speed Surge

The Solana ecosystem is on the cusp of its most transformative upgrade yet: the Alpenglow consensus protocol, set to drastically reduce transaction finality from roughly 12–13 seconds to an unprecedented 150 milliseconds—a near‑100‑fold acceleration. After a two‑week governance cycle that began on August 21, over 52 % of the network’s stake par...