Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade set to go live on mainnet October 21, targeting 150ms finality

Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade, described as the network's biggest consensus upgrade in history, is set to go live on mainnet October 21, targeting 150ms finality — roughly 85x faster than the current 12.8 seconds under TowerBFT. Validators need Agave 4.3.0-based clients before activation.

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