Solana’s Anza_xyz Unveils Alpenglow Protocol With 100x Latency Improvement, PoH Removed, Testing by Year-End

The Solana blockchain network is set to undergo its largest protocol upgrade to date with the introduction of the Alpenglow consensus protocol, developed by the research team at Anza_xyz. Announced at the Solana Accelerate event, Alpenglow aims to reduce transaction finality times to between 100 and 150 milliseconds, representing a 100-fold improvement over the current latency. This upgrade will eliminate the existing Proof of History mechanism and the tower consensus, replacing them with a new consensus design that also includes a rewrite of the Turbine protocol and maximizes the use of IBRL. The protocol is expected to lower jitter and reduce dependency on the Discord fallback consensus layer. Testing for Alpenglow is planned to conclude by the end of the year. The upgrade is positioned to bring Solana’s performance closer to that of centralized infrastructure, enabling real-time applications on the blockchain.

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