Solana’s Yakovenko Challenges Alpenglow Design as Network Prepares to Remove Validator Votes

nder Anatoly Yakovenko stated that the development of Alpenglow could have been completed in half the time through a simpler modification to the voting program. The migration scheduled for October 21 removes vote transactions from blocks and replaces individual fees with an admission fee of 0.8 SOL burned per epoch. The Alpenglow governance proposal recorded a 98.27% approval rate of the votes cast in September 2025, with participation representing 52% of the total stake. Anatoly Yakovenko , co-founder of Solana , publicly questioned the development timeline of the Alpenglow upgrade, arguing that a direct modification to the vote program would have cut the process in half. His remarks coincide with the start of the consensus migration scheduled for Wednesday, October 21.

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