Key Highlights Subsecond finality: Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade is designed to bring the network closer to the settlement speed of a card payment or a trade on a centralized exchange. Lower validator costs: Alpenglow replaces daily vote fees with a 0.8 SOL admission ticket for each approximately 24-hour epoch, reducing the reported cost by roughly 60%. ...
Key Highlights: Solana is scheduled to migrate to the Alpenglow voting mechanism at epoch 1064, expected on October 21 around 15:00 UTC. Validator operational costs will shift from dynamic voting charges of approximately 1 SOL per epoch to a flat admission fee of 0.8 SOL. Reported on-chain transaction metrics could see an apparent drop upon ...
Key Highlights Solana is currently experiencing a period in which trading volumes are not being reported, suggesting potentially low activity or limited market engagement. Attention is focused on the proposed Alpenglow upgrade and its potential effect on Solana’s network performance. Follow-up discussions from the Solana Foundation and user feedback will be important indicators of the ...
Key Highlights: US spot Solana ETFs recorded $188 million in combined net inflows over the five trading sessions through Sept. 25. Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade is being tested on the public devnet and testnet, targeting transaction finality of about 150 milliseconds. $SOL is trading near $121.11, with a move above $124.95-$125 potentially opening the way toward ...
Key Highlights Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade targets approximately 150-millisecond transaction finality, a dramatic reduction from the current 12.8 seconds. The upgrade is now live on both Solana’s devnet and testnet, allowing developers to test applications before mainnet deployment. Anza, Solana’s core software developer, announced the devnet transition on September 25, following the testnet migration a day ...