Nearly everyone is backing Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade, which promises lightning-fast 150ms finality.
Solana’s upcoming Alpenglow upgrade is set to drastically cut transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to just 150 milliseconds, with over 99% of votes in favor so far. Introduced by Anza in May, it’s being called Solana’s biggest protocol upgrade yet, potentially making it even faster than Google searches. The upgrade replaces existing consensus systems with Votor (for faster block finalization) and Rotor (for quicker data sharing), promising nearly 100x speed improvements. While it won’t solve Solana’s history of outages, the arrival of the independent Firedancer client later this year is expected to improve network stability. If approved, Alpenglow will cement Solana’s position as one of the fastest layer-1 blockchains, expanding use cases far beyond payments and trading.