Alpenglow is live on mainnet-beta ⛰️ 🎉 Solana’s new consensus protocol: finality reduced from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds, built by Anza. Why this is important 🧵

🏦 Institutions: settlement in 150ms with a cryptographic guarantee. 🌐 Capital markets: a market that never closes and settles trades instantly. 🧑‍💻 Developers: web3 apps as snappy as web2. ✨ AI agents: permissionless payments at agentic speed.

Alpenglow genesis block formed and the legacy TowerBFT is retired. Genesis slot: 459,653,000 Activation epoch: 1064 Validators participated: 654 Handoff time: 900ms

Send a transaction: trade, transfer, swap, mint, anything onchain. Then tell us how 150ms feels. 🎤

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Now that's very fast

congrats 🫡

Huge congrats! ⛰️⛰️⛰️

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SOLANAAAAAA

Congratulations to the team who shipped 📱🛠️

Congrats to the whole Anza team ⛰️🎉 Made a little cartoon to celebrate, Alpenglow explained in 2 min 🎬👇

INCREDIBLEEEEE

There's no such thing as too fast💪

All it takes is 150 ms to $https, and this proves @solana is the https chain

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You guys are goated

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Now that I've had a bit more time to see this, I appreciate the HQ video for AI of our CEO

Historic moment for Solana

godspeed @solana?

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Alpenglow szn.

IBRL

You don’t have any crypto token launched?

Congratulations to the team , W 💙

@toly what a time to be al(pen)ive.

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he'll fuckin' yeah

Solana finality now matches a card tap. Others still queue.

speeeeeed

huge!

what a time to be alive

ALPENGLOW IS LIVE

Yes

finality drop looks impressive on paper