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Anza is a core Solana development team that builds blockchain infrastructure, including the Agave validator client and network scaling proposals.
Solana validators approved SIMD-0326, the Alpenglow consensus swap, with 98.27% of participating stake in favor. According to Solana Compass, votes are 54% to 59% of mainnet transactions today. Under Alpenglow they stop being transactions.
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Solana swaps TowerBFT for Alpenglow on Oct. 21, targeting finality in about 150 milliseconds. CoinDesk reported that vote transactions leave blocks, so counts may fall sharply with user activity unchanged.
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Solana plans to activate Alpenglow on mainnet around 15:00 UTC on October 21, cutting finality from about 12.8 seconds to a target near 150 milliseconds. Decrypt's Morning Minute says exchanges and payment processors have built around the old window of roughly 13 seconds.
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Solana Foundation's plan to retire durable nonces gives a roughly six-month migration window, conditional on an audited mainnet replacement. Cold keys would keep approving while program-derived addresses control the affected accounts, CryptoSlate reported.
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Solana's validators voted to slow token issuance by cutting their own reward stream. The margin was thin enough that one custodian's late change of mind settled six years of the network's monetary schedule.
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Solana cuts its target block time to 200 milliseconds on Friday and shrinks each block to 30 million compute units, so total capacity stays flat. Validators pay for the faster clock by voting about twice as often as under the original 400-millisecond design.
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Anza researchers propose ordering Solana's block producers by self-reported location, cutting modeled mean handover delay from 36.2 to 17.0 milliseconds. The chain can verify who signed a location but not where the hardware sits, so the speedup depends on operators reporting honestly.
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Anza researchers' SIMD-0675 would schedule Solana validators by registered location, cutting simulated handover delays 53%, to 17.0 milliseconds. Every validator would keep its share of slots, so what operators pay for faster handovers is disclosure of where their machines run.
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Anza moved Solana's testnet and devnet to Alpenglow on Sept. 24 and 25, cutting finality from about 12.8 seconds to a 100 to 150 millisecond target. Mainnet-beta follows an observation period with no date set, the window exchanges and app teams have to retest what they count as settled.
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Transaction V1 went live on Solana mainnet at epoch 1035 with a 4,096-byte ceiling. Senders opt in and the older formats keep working, so the required updates fall on RPC providers, indexers and explorers.
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Helius's Rings demo runs on devnet and can hide the transaction graph; the Token-2022 extension has been live on mainnet since June and hides only the amount. Which one you can use is settled by the token issuer.
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The September 9 format change is optional for senders and mandatory for anyone parsing blocks, and the Jito bundle data Anza used to size it says a 4,096-byte ceiling absorbs between half and two thirds of the workloads that needed a workaround.
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The first gate delivers about a tenth of that saving and only on testnet, and because the deposit was always refundable, what issuers actually gain is the carry on money the network gave back anyway.
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