Anza’s Alpenglow goes live on Solana, cutting finality to 150 milliseconds

The Block · Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:24:39 GMT

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Solana has switched on Alpenglow, a replacement for TowerBFT that lowers the time needed for a transaction to become final from 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds.

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