just 8 days until Solana's Alpenglow upgrade goes live! after 18 months of development, @anza_xyz is bringing alpenglow to solana mainnet-beta on october 21. here's what changes: - finality drops from ~12.8s to ~150ms, an ~85x improvement. - finality latency reduced by ~98.8%. - validator votes move offchain, freeing up blockspace. - consensus migration happens in a single slot. a major step toward near-instant settlement for payments, DeFi and onchain trading. the countdown is on. ⏳