Solana’s biggest network change since 2020 is live. Here’s how users benefit

The Solana network has completed an upgrade named Alpenglow, which adds a new voting system intended to settle transactions in approximately 150 milliseconds. That target speed could shorten the waits users face for payments and deposits. The new voting system is part of the Alpenglow upgrade. Users can keep the wallets they already have, so no wallet replacement is needed. Settlement refers to the finalization of a transaction, the point at which it is complete.