Solana Set for Major Speed Boost via Alpenglow Upgrade—Here’s What to Expect

Solana is about to get a lot faster, developers say, after a proposal for a large network upgrade that was adopted on Tuesday.

Validators for the popular low-1 blockchain network voted 98% in favor of SIMD-0236, the Solana improvement proposal that implements Alpine glowA new consensus protocol devised by the research team of Solana Research and Development Firm, Anza. Sneler transaction attachments are an important part of the improvements that come to Solana.

“The biggest difference that users will immediately feel will be a reduction in the latency of the confirmation to around 150-200 ms,” said Anza head economist Max Resnick Decrypt.

“At present, optimistic confirmations are being served in about 1 second, so it is at least a 5x improvement compared to today,” he continued. “Apps will feel a lot of snappier and exchanges will be able to safely obtain deposits much faster than the full 12.8 second finality window that they adhere to.”

Alpenglow was first introduced in May and was designed to re -configure the existing Solana consensus protocol and to set the network on the same basis with centralized infrastructure used in traditional finances. The proposal invoiced as a “big overhaul of Solana’s core consensus protocol” with “modern architecture focused on performance, resilience and where possible simplicity.”

Now approved by the validators of the network, Resnick hopes that the implementation of Alpenglow will be live in December on Testnet by the Solana Breakpoint conference, with a Mantet release planned for Q1 2026.

“Alpenglow is so far the most important rewriting of the Solana protocol. Decrypt.

“One of the most important characteristics of Solana Success is the pursuit of the developer community of performance and their ability to shift distributed computer sets to the limit of physics,” he added. “Alpenglow will be an important mile marking on the way to 1 million transactions per second.”

The consensus protocol -upgrade is one of the handful of Planned technological improvements For Solana in the coming years, who, according to supporters, are designed to bring the blockchain to the best financial markets in the world. Recently, solana achieved more than 100k transactions Per second in a test run by a Solana developer.

Analysts told Decrypt On Tuesday that The implementation of Alpenglow can help push Solana (SOL) to as high as $ 250 towards the end of the year.

Solana has risen by around 5% for the past 24 hours to around $ 207, still 29% discount on his all -time February of $ 293.31.