The validators of Solana (Sol) concluded the governance process for Alpenglow (SIMD-0326) on September 2, placing in a sun for a potential execution at $ 250.
The community vote scored 98.27% in favor, the opposite 1.05% and 0.69% refraining, with 52% of the total participation participating in the decision.
Alpenglow represents a complete review of the Solana consensus architecture, replacing the existing history testing mechanisms and TowerBft with a modern protocol designed for performance and resistance.
Reduction of the purpose of the transaction
The update introduces Votor, a system based on direct votes that ends the blocks through voting processes of a single or dual rondation depending on the network conditions.
The transformation of the protocol promises to reduce the purpose of the transaction of the current 12.8 seconds of Towerbft to as low as 100-150 milliseconds.
The network achieves bandwidth efficiency profits by eliminating great gossip traffic that currently loads the system.
Alpenglow’s architecture focuses on direct validator communication using cryptographic aggregates to test consensus.
Validators exchange votes directly instead of the gossip protocol of the network, reducing general computational expenses and communication costs.
Technical implementation and market impact
Alpenglow operates with a “20+20” resilience model, maintaining the life of the network even when 20% of validators act maliciously and another 20% do not respond.
The protocol divides time into spaces with predetermined leaders responsible for consecutive periods called leaders leaders.
Shawn Young from Mexc Research said the update could place Solana faster than standard web search times, which can promote the adoption of developers and institutional.
Young projected that Sol could reach $ 215 at the end of September and $ 250 for the end of the fourth quarter, citing technical improvements along with the growing institutional treasury holdings that exceed $ 1.7 billion.
The governance process covered the epochs 833-842, including the periods of discussion, the weight collection of the interested parties and the distribution of tokens through the Jito Merkle distributor tool adapted.
The implementation details and the schedule for the implementation of the network remain in development while the validators are prepared for the consensus transition.
Economic restructuring and validator incentives
The update fundamentally changes the economic model of Solana by moving the vote outside the chain. Validators will no longer present voting transactions for each slot, eliminating the bandwidth overload and transactions rates.
Instead, the protocol introduces the validator admission ticket (VAT), which requires validators to pay 1.6 sun per time as an initial cost to maintain economic barriers for participation.
Leaders receive compensation for adding and presenting votes, gaining rewards equal to the total value of all votes included in their aggregates.
Additional bonds request the processing of rapid completion certificates or completion, recognizing the highest computational costs associated with these services.
This improvement positions the yield of Solana closer to the response times of the web2 application while maintaining the Blockchain safety guarantees.
