Morning Minute: Solana Is About To Get Faster
60-second summary
Alpenglow launches next week, reducing Solana’s finality from 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds—about an 85‑fold speed boost. The upgrade rewrites consensus to achieve sub‑second block confirmation, promising dramatically lower latency for DeFi, NFTs and high‑frequency trading on the network. Faster finality should attract more developers, increase transaction volume and strengthen Solana’s competitive position in the blockchain market.
Alpenglow is coming next week, slashing Solana finality from 12.8 seconds to a target of about 150 milliseconds—some 85 times faster.