Solana news (SOL): Biggest consensus overhaul in blockchain's history is live for testing
Anza said validators can now test a redesign that could cut finality from 12.8 seconds to about 150 milliseconds.
- On Monday, Solana developer Anza announced that Alpenglow, the network's biggest proposed consensus overhaul to date, is live on a community test cluster, marking a major step toward potential mainnet rollout.
- Replacing existing mechanisms, the upgrade introduces Votor and Rotor protocols, aiming to reduce transaction finality from roughly 12.8 seconds to around 150 milliseconds, a near 100-fold improvement.
- Validators overwhelmingly approved the upgrade with 98% voting in favor under SIMD-0326, while internal testing had previously been limited to roughly 45 nodes before this community-wide phase.
- At Consensus Miami 2026, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko said mainnet activation could arrive next quarter, with Anza Lead Economist Max Resnick noting next steps include packaging Alpenglow into an Agave release.
- SOL traded around $97 on Monday, rising roughly 15% over the past month, though the asset remains about 67% below its January 2025 all-time high.
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Solana's Alpenglow Goes Live for Community Testing as Mainnet Target Moves to Next Quarter
Solana developer Anza said Monday that Alpenglow, the biggest proposed consensus overhaul in the network’s history, is live on a community test cluster, marking the most significant step yet toward a potential mainnet rollout. The community cluster lets external validator operators run the new consensus code in a live environment for the first time. Internal testing had previously been limited to roughly 45 nodes. “Alpenglow is live on the commu…
Solana Activates Alpenglow Upgrade: What It Means for SOL
The Solana Alpenglow upgrade went live on a community validator test cluster on May 11, 2026, moving the network’s most ambitious consensus overhaul one step closer to mainnet. Anza, the development firm driving the change, called it “the biggest consensus change in Solana’s history.” That is not marketing copy; it is a technically accurate description of what Alpenglow proposes to do. Alpenglow (RPC 2.0 and what's next for Solana) > Solana’s b…
Solana is taking a decisive step with Alpenglow. The upgrading of its consensus is now entering a community test phase, before a possible activation on the mainnet between the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth quarter 2026. L'article Solana accelerates the deployment of Alpenglow with a test phase open to external operators has appeared first on Cointribune.
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Solana’s Alpenglow has gone live on the community test cluster and is running on validator infrastructure as it readies to debut on the mainnet. Alpenglow has cut down finality time by 99% from 13 seconds to less than 200 milliseconds, making Solana the fastest major blockchain. Alpenglow, the biggest consensus upgrade on the Solana network, has finally gone live on the community test cluster to replace the network’s consensus layer and cut fina…
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