Ожидается, что 21 октября будет запущен обновление основной сети Solana Alpenglow.

According to reports from The Defiant, the Solana development team behind Anza has determined the launch time for the Alpenglow mainnet beta version: around 10:50 am on Wednesday, October 21st, Eastern Time. At this time, the new consensus system will replace TowerBFT, aiming to reduce the time required for final confirmation of transactions to approximately 150 milliseconds. The upgrade guide from the Solana Foundation states that under the TowerBFT mechanism, the time required for final confirmation is about 12.8 seconds. It should be noted that “final confirmation” refers to the point in time when a transaction can no longer be rolled back, and this is not the same as the interval between block generation. The Votor voting protocol used in Alpenglow changes this approach: votes are no longer submitted as part of transactions on the chain, but are transmitted directly between validators, who then combine these messages into certificates. As a result, a block can be finalized in just one or two rounds of voting. Voting transactions…