Solana’s Yakovenko questions Alpenglow build as vote transactions exit

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has said Alpenglow could have shipped in half the time through a simpler vote-program change, ahead of the Oct. 21 consensus migration that will remove validator vote transactions from blocks. Yakovenko said a simpler vote-program change could have halved Alpenglow’s development time. Removing validator vote transactions will lower headline TPS counts without necessarily changing user activity. A burned 0.8 SOL admission fee per epoch will replace individual voting fees. Some RPC nodes may receive finality updates later than Alpenglow’s 150-millisecond target. Yakovenko, in an Oct. 21 X post, made the remark while quoting a comment celebrating the planned removal of on-chain votes and mocking the recurring criticism that most Solana transactions per second consist of validator votes.

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