Solana Consensus Upgrade Alpenglow Enters Community Testing Phase

Odaily reports that Anza, the core development team of Solana, has announced that a major consensus mechanism upgrade codenamed Alpenglow has gone live on the community testnet. Validators can switch from the current Proof-of-Stake, Proof-of-History, and TowerBFT architecture to the new consensus framework in the test cluster.

This upgrade shortens the transaction finality time and improves network response efficiency by restructuring the validator communication and block confirmation process. This test marks that validators can now perform the Alpenswitch migration operation in a real-world environment. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko previously stated that if testing goes smoothly, Alpenglow is expected to be deployed to the mainnet as early as next quarter. (CoinDesk)