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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 27, 2026Published at 1:54 AM EDT · New York
Solana's Alpenglow Consensus Rewrite Reaches Both Public Test Networks Ahead of a Mainnet Decision
The upgrade targets finality of about 150 milliseconds against roughly 13 seconds today, and validator client software carrying it is already recommended to every mainnet operator.
Alpenglow, the replacement for Solana's consensus and voting machinery, is now running on both of the network's public test networks, giving application teams a place to check their software before the production chain switches over. The de…
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