Solana

Solana stakers overwhelmingly approved Alpenglow, a major upgrade designed to cut finality times to milliseconds and increase throughput by 100x. Posted September 3, 2025 at 9:48 am EST. Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade has officially cleared its […]

Solana validators have approved the Alpenglow upgrade with 98.27% support, clearing the way for transaction finality to drop from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds when deployed in 2026. The upgrade represents the network’s most significant […]

In brief Solana validators passed a proposal to implement Alpenglow, a reworking of Solana’s consensus protocol. The implementation will make Solana transaction finality at least 5x faster, making apps and deposits on-chain quicker. Alpenglow is […]

Liquid staking on the Solana blockchain has seen a significant surge, with liquid staking positions reaching a record high of 5.7 million SOL, representing 13.6% of the total staked supply. This growth has been largely […]