Tagged: alpenglow

October 16, 2026 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana is preparing to activate Alpenglow, a major overhaul of its consensus layer, on mainnet-beta during epoch 1064. That epoch is expected to begin on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, near 15:00 UTC. The change replaces the network’s longstanding TowerBFT voting system with a new protocol… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 7:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana’s planned consensus rewrite has moved from a closed rehearsal environment onto the network’s public test clusters, a step core engineers have treated as the start of the formal activation path. Anza, the firm that maintains the Agave validator client, said Alpenglow completed its testnet… Read More