Update
Solana to Speed Up with Alpenglow
Alpenglow, a new consensus mechanism for Solana, is set to activate next Wednesday, reducing finality from approximately 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds. This update will make transactions more reliable and secure, especially for institutional users who have historically been concerned about the chain's outages. The change is expected to cause a temporary drop in transaction count and throughput figures, but the overall user experience and ecosystem will remain unchanged.