Solana Alpenglow Upgrade Delivers Sub-Second Finality
Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade has reduced deposit settlement time on Bulletxyz from 12.8 seconds to under 1 second, with the frontend and APIs now becoming the new performance bottleneck.
What we know
@toly retweeted an account on X noting that another account on X deposits now settle in under a second thanks to the Alpenglow upgrade, crediting another account on X. Toly added three crown emojis, a strong endorsement. The comment 'our frontend and data APIs are now the slowest piece LOL' reflects how dramatic the consensus layer improvement has been.
How the story developed
Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade has reduced deposit settlement time on Bulletxyz from 12.8 seconds to under 1 second, with the frontend and APIs now becoming the new performance bottleneck.
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Sources
“Thanks to @solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade, you can now deposit into @Bulletxyz in under a second (instead of 12.8s+)!”
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