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Solana's new consensus protocol Alpenglow launches on mainnet, cutting transaction finality time to 150 milliseconds.

BlockBeats news, October 21: The Solana development team Anza announced that its new consensus protocol Alpenglow has been launched on the Solana mainnet (mainnet-beta), reducing transaction finality time from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. The Alpenglow genesis block has been generated, and the original consensus mechanism TowerBFT has officially retired.

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"UBTC Swap Whale" once again swapped BTC for 3,038.73 ETH, approximately $7.5 million.

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Solana's new consensus protocol Alpenglow launches on mainnet, cutting transaction finality time to 150 milliseconds.

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