According to Cointelegraph, Solana’s first major consensus upgrade, named Alpenglow, has launched on the mainnet. The upgrade aims to reduce finality time by approximately 99 percent compared to current performance.
The primary objective of Alpenglow is to enable users to receive near‑immediate settlement of transactions on the Solana network. No additional details such as exact timing figures, implementation steps beyond mainnet deployment, or projected user impact were provided in the source material.
