Solana developers are promoting an important consensus review with the Alpenglow proposal, now in the validator voting stage.
A little more than 10% of the validators have supported the update from the European morning hours on Thursday, it shows a tracker, with more than 88% of the eligible participants who have not yet chosen.
If approved, it would replace the history test and TowerBFT with a faster and faster design focused on two new components: voter and rotor.
The test of history is the existing consensus mechanism of Solana. Tim -tim -sp. Allowing validators to determine the right order without wasting time in synchronization (which creates a slower network). TowerBft is the network voting system. Validators use previous votes as a guide, helping them quickly to agree on the following block while they resist attacks.
The great raffle in the new voting consensus proposal, which would reduce the time that has been completing a transaction of more than 12 seconds to around 150 milliseconds, which makes confirmations of the network feel effectively instantaneous for users.
Rotor, planned for a later stage, aims to make the network more efficient reducing the number of times the data should be transferred between validators, an update designed to admit high activity applications, such as defi and games.
Alpenglow also presents a “20+20” resilience model, which promises to keep the chain in operation even if 20% of the validators are adverse and another 20% are offline.
The proposal frames this as a step to achieve faster speeds while improving safety and equity for validators.
