Votor, the first phase of Alpenglow, took over Solana consensus at slot 459,653,000 on 21 October 2026, about 18 minutes after epoch 1064 began at roughly 13:36 UTC. Solana finality now targets roughly 150 milliseconds against about 12.8 seconds under TowerBFT, and an outside 24-hour mainnet sample reported by TokenPost recorded a 404-millisecond median. Validators […]...