Solana’s faster finality is live. What changes for users?

Solana has been running Alpenglow on mainnet since October 21, replacing a voting system that could take several seconds to finalize a block with one designed to finish in a fraction of a second. The Solana Foundation records the switch in epoch 1064, after 446 of 654 validators certified a genesis block. A user sending SOL might see a payment appear almost at once and wonder what the upgrade improved. A wallet can show that a transaction was processed before the network has made it final. Alpenglow compresses the wait for the stronger assurance, but the app still has to submit the payment, hear back from a node and decide when to change its own display. An exchange may impose another wait before crediting an account.

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