Morning Minute: Solana Is About To Get Faster
Summary
Solana plans to activate its Alpenglow consensus upgrade on mainnet on October 21, targeting finality in about 150 milliseconds, down from roughly 12.8 seconds. The system is designed to keep finalizing if 20% of staked SOL is malicious and another 20% is offline. Validators will vote directly to one another rather than through on-chain transactions, so reported transaction and TPS figures may plunge without a corresponding decline in user activity. The activation date has slipped before, and a second upgrade phase has no announced date.
