Alpenglow goes live on Solana mainnet, transaction count drops 62%
- —The switch took 900 ms and the transition block was certified by 446 of 654 validators
- —Vote transactions accounted for about 263 million per day, roughly 62% of traffic
- —Finality targets are ~100 ms at 80% stake and ~150 ms at 60–80%
- —Vote fees drop to 0.8 SOL per epoch from about 1.1 SOL per day
Why it matters: Solana's biggest consensus overhaul since The Merge reshapes validator economics and claimed finality speed, though independent measurements are still missing.
Source: Journal du Coin