Solana’s Devnet has successfully migrated to the new Alpenglow consensus protocol, reducing the time for final transaction confirmation from about 12.8 seconds to 100–150 milliseconds—close to the speed of traditional financial systems.
Architectural changes
The Votor voting system replaces TowerBFT, moving coordination of validator executors off-chain and removing technical voting transactions that previously consumed up to 75% of block capacity.
Impact
This upgrade positions SOL as a leading infrastructure layer for real-time on-chain payments.
Architectural changes
The Votor voting system replaces TowerBFT, moving coordination of validator executors off-chain and removing technical voting transactions that previously consumed up to 75% of block capacity.
Impact
This upgrade positions SOL as a leading infrastructure layer for real-time on-chain payments.