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馃毃JUST IN: Alpenglow, @Solana鈥檚 biggest consensus change in history, is set to go live on the testnet in less than 6 hours.
The new system could make Solana transaction finality 85脳 faster, cutting it from around 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds.