The Protocol: Solana’s ‘Alpenglow’ upgrade is live for testing
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Solana has launched its “Alpenglow” consensus upgrade on a community test cluster, marking a significant step toward a mainnet release.Summary
Solana developer Anza has officially released “Alpenglow” to a community test cluster, representing the most substantial consensus overhaul in the network's history. This upgrade aims to transition Solana from its existing Proof-of-Stake, TowerBFT, and Proof-of-History architecture to a new system designed to enhance network responsiveness and significantly reduce transaction finality times. By moving this software to validator infrastructure, developers are testing the foundation for a future mainnet rollout intended to mitigate past issues with network instability and outages.
(Source：CoinDesk)