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Morning Edition · Saturday, September 26, 2026Published at 1:50 AM EDT · New York
Solana's Alpenglow consensus rewrite reaches a second public test network
The upgrade targets settlement in about 150 milliseconds and now runs where application teams can test against it before the live chain switches over.
Alpenglow, the rewrite of Solana's consensus mechanism, is now running on both of Solana's public test networks, giving application developers a place to verify their software before the change reaches the live chain. The target is settleme…
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