Alpenglow would let exchanges, bridges and merchants treat payments as irreversible almost immediately. Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade has moved to its public test network, where developers will test reducing transaction finality from about 13 seconds to 0.15 seconds. Alpenglow replaces Solana’s TowerBFT consensus system with Votor, which allows validators to finalize blocks after one or two rounds of direct voting without changing how users send funds. The initial testnet migration requires Agave…
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