The post Solana to Work 80x Faster With This Upgrade: What Is Alpenglow? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Alpenglow, biggest upgrade in Solana’s history, secures validator approval Solana versus Ethereum: What to expect in 2026 Solana’s validator community finally approved the activation of SIMD-0326: Alpenglow, which is expected to be the most profound rewrite of the protocol’s design. Once activated, Alpenglow is set to reduce transaction finality to sub-150ms. Alpenglow, biggest upgrade in Solana’s history, secures validator approval The activation of Alpenglow, a radical upgrade of Solana (SOL) blockchain protocol architecture, is now approved by the community of SOL validators. With 52% of validators participating, the SMID-0326 Alpenglow proposal is now backed by 98.27% of SOL stakers. The community governance process for SIMD-0326: Alpenglow is complete. The proposal has passed:98.27% voted Yes1.05% voted No0.69% voted Abstain52% of stake cast a vote — Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) September 2, 2025 A total of 1.05% of the SOL community opposed the Alpenglow activation, while 0.36% of the voting power abstained. As such, Alpenglow is expected to debut on Solana’s mainnet in 2026. Alpenglow is set to retire both crucial components of Solana’s (SOL) architecture, proof of history (PoH) and TowerBFT. As a result, Solana (SOL) will validate transactions in an entirely new manner, more speedily and resource-effectively. Proposed by Solana’s R&D team Anza Research, Alpenglow introduces two major components of the new design, Votor and Rotor. Votor, a consensus protocol, simplifies Solana’s validator voting logic, making the process of block validation optimized. Rotor, a novel data propagation layer, reduces delays and aligns bandwidth usage with stake distribution. As a result, Solana’s block validation time will drop from 12.8s to 150ms, and, with ideal network conditions, to sub-100ms values. Solana versus Ethereum: What to expect in 2026 Besides that, Solana (SOL) will become more attack-resistant than ever before. Solana (SOL) will be able to validate blocks even with 25% of staked SOL… The post Solana to Work 80x Faster With This Upgrade: What Is Alpenglow? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Alpenglow, biggest upgrade in Solana’s history, secures validator approval Solana versus Ethereum: What to expect in 2026 Solana’s validator community finally approved the activation of SIMD-0326: Alpenglow, which is expected to be the most profound rewrite of the protocol’s design. Once activated, Alpenglow is set to reduce transaction finality to sub-150ms. Alpenglow, biggest upgrade in Solana’s history, secures validator approval The activation of Alpenglow, a radical upgrade of Solana (SOL) blockchain protocol architecture, is now approved by the community of SOL validators. With 52% of validators participating, the SMID-0326 Alpenglow proposal is now backed by 98.27% of SOL stakers. The community governance process for SIMD-0326: Alpenglow is complete. The proposal has passed:98.27% voted Yes1.05% voted No0.69% voted Abstain52% of stake cast a vote — Solana Status (@SolanaStatus) September 2, 2025 A total of 1.05% of the SOL community opposed the Alpenglow activation, while 0.36% of the voting power abstained. As such, Alpenglow is expected to debut on Solana’s mainnet in 2026. Alpenglow is set to retire both crucial components of Solana’s (SOL) architecture, proof of history (PoH) and TowerBFT. As a result, Solana (SOL) will validate transactions in an entirely new manner, more speedily and resource-effectively. Proposed by Solana’s R&D team Anza Research, Alpenglow introduces two major components of the new design, Votor and Rotor. Votor, a consensus protocol, simplifies Solana’s validator voting logic, making the process of block validation optimized. Rotor, a novel data propagation layer, reduces delays and aligns bandwidth usage with stake distribution. As a result, Solana’s block validation time will drop from 12.8s to 150ms, and, with ideal network conditions, to sub-100ms values. Solana versus Ethereum: What to expect in 2026 Besides that, Solana (SOL) will become more attack-resistant than ever before. Solana (SOL) will be able to validate blocks even with 25% of staked SOL…