Solana is about to replace its entire consensus. Finality drops from 12.8 seconds to ~150 milliseconds.
I have been testing Alpenglow on the community cluster since its first genesis - so I wrote the longread I wish existed: what changes, why it matters, and how it looks from the inside.
cryptovik.info/news/solana-aβ¦
Aug 7, 2026 Β· 2:52 PM UTC
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The cluster runs on people: @Ashwinningg and @TimGarcia0 at the core, @solblaze_org distributing the cluster's stake and backing volunteers from his mainnet pool, @Allnodes with free servers, @PuffinValidator inventing new metrics - and dozens of operators on their own hardware.
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