Alpenglow goes live on Solana mainnet targeting 150ms finality
Solana’s first major consensus upgrade, Alpenglow, activated on mainnet at 13:54 UTC on 21 October 2026, according to Cointelegraph, marking what Anza researchers have…
Shawon Hannan is a crypto markets writer at CryptoNexa. He covers DeFi protocols, layer-1 and layer-2 development, staking and restaking economics, tokenomics and the on-chain data behind the day's headlines. His reporting focuses on mechanism rather than narrative: how a protocol actually works, where the risk sits, and what the flows show. He tracks exchange reserves, TVL, funding and governance activity, and treats every figure as something that has to be traceable to a chain, a filing or a named analyst. He writes on protocol upgrades, exchange and ETF flows, regulation and market moves.
Solana’s first major consensus upgrade, Alpenglow, activated on mainnet at 13:54 UTC on 21 October 2026, according to Cointelegraph, marking what Anza researchers have…