Solana will activate Alpenglow on October 21 at 15:00 UTC, reducing transaction finality from 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds, an 85-fold improvement. The upgrade, developed by Anza over 18 months, also strengthens the network’s resilience by allowing it to function even if 20% of staked SOL acts maliciously and another 20% is simply offline. This change will affect how Solana reports its transaction metrics as validators will now vote directly to each other rather than through the chain. The broader crypto market experienced significant losses following hot CPI data, with Bitcoin dropping to $80,900 and over $900 million in crypto longs being liquidated over 24 hours.
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