Solana developers are planning what could be the most ambitious central update of the blockchain to date, one that replaces their current technology battery with a redesigned consensus protocol built for the purpose and almost instantaneous response capacity.
The new system, called Alpenglow, was presented on Monday by the Anza infrastructure firm, a Solana Labs thorn.
It proposes to replace the test of the story, the famous “pre -recorded clock” system of Solana, and the BFT tower, its existing voting mechanism to reach a consensus.
BFT, or tolerance to Byzantine failures, is a way for a group of network nodes to agree on information, even if some were lying or broken.
The test of the story is one of the central characteristics of Solana, a type of cryptographic “clock” so that the validators do not have to discuss the time when registering data on the network, a shortcut that immensely accelerates the network but adds complexity.
Why change?
So why the proposed change? Because both systems are relatively slow and complex under the hood. Towerbft needs multiple voting rounds, and the history test is based on a cryptographic clock that can cause coordination delays. Alpenglow simplifies this with faster and faster communication and faster consensus.
Instead comes a two -part solution:
1) voter, which manages the end of the block and can confirm transactions in just 100-150 milliseconds (according to current simulations).
2) Rotor, a data broadcast protocol that aims to transmit transactions data faster and more efficiently than the turbine, the current transmission mechanism of Solana.
This is not just a technological flexion, directly affects the experience of the developer, the user’s response capacity and the types of applications that can be executed natively in Solana, including real -time finances, games and social tools.
These implementations could, in turn, increase the activity in the chain and, by extension, the demand for Tokens Sol.
The purpose in less than a second would mark a step change for the block chains of layer 1, most of which still work on several second confirmation windows. Solana has already experienced with “optimistic confirmations” to reduce latency, but Alpenglow formalizes this in a demonstrably fast protocol.
The purpose means that a transaction is fully confirmed and cannot be changed or reversed, so it is a permanent part of the block chain.
According to its technical document, the Alpenglow voter system could finish the blocks in a single voting round if 80% of the participation is online, or two rounds if only 60% respond, and both modes are executed simultaneously to finish on the fastest route.
On the other hand, using rotor would allow less “hops”, selection of smarter relay node and a better bandwidth distribution to boost the data around the network quickly, critic to maintain fast blocking times without depending on a central bottleneck.
A jump is a step that takes a fact as it moves from a computer (or node) to another through a network.
Until Tuesday, no launch date has been confirmed. But for Solana, this is more than an update: it is a speed commitment like the identity of the chain. If it works, you could allocate the Solana position not only as the fastest L1, but as one of the only ones quick enough for real -time use cases.
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