Solana Community Approves Alpenglow Consensus Protocol

According to Foresight News, the Solana community has voted in favor of the new consensus protocol proposal, Alpenglow, identified as SIMD-0326. The voting results showed overwhelming support, with 98.27% in favor, 1.05% against, and 0.69% abstaining. Overall, 52% of the staked volume participated in the vote. The Alpenglow protocol aims to significantly reduce block finalization time from 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds.