727 FinancePANews October 13 news: The Solana development team Anza announced that the Alpenglow upgrade will go live on the mainnet-beta environment at approximately 14:50 UTC on October 21 (late evening Beijing time).
Anza stated that the Alpenglow upgrade underwent 18 months of development, and the mainnet migration will be completed within a single slot. After the upgrade is completed, Solana network finality is expected to be significantly reduced from the current several seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds. Alpenglow aims to further optimize Solana's consensus mechanism, improve network confirmation speed and performance, and is one of the important upgrades in the evolution of Solana's infrastructure.