Solana's Alpenglow upgrade goes live Wednesday with ~150ms finality
- —Finality drops from about six seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds
- —Validators pay a 0.8 SOL admission ticket per epoch instead of ~2 SOL daily
- —Testnet was wiped and restarted six times; one migration was rolled back
- —Activation at epoch 1064, slot 459,653,000 after a 5,000-slot transition
Why it matters: Faster finality brings Solana closer to CEX and card-payment speed, sharpening its pitch for trading and stablecoin payments.
Source: CoinDesk