Solana has announced the implementation of its Alpenglow upgrade on October 21, aiming to significantly enhance transaction finality to approximately 150 milliseconds. This upgrade will replace the current TowerBFT consensus mechanism with Votor, promising a drastic reduction in consensus latency and validator-voting overhead. Solana’s native token, SOL, was near $108 as of October 14, with a market capitalization of roughly $63.4 billion. The upgrade is expected to bolster user confidence and potentially increase demand for SOL.
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