Solana consensus upgrade Alpenglow enters community testing phase

Odaily Planet Daily News: Solana core development team Anza 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 transaction finality time and improves network response efficiency by restructuring validator communication and block confirmation processes. This test marks that validators can now execute Alpenswitch migration operations in a real 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)