Solana's 2026 Protocol Upgrades Hit Major Milestones
Solana's 2026 performance metrics are dramatic: slot times halved, finality cut to ~150ms, tx size tripled, and compute costs slashed 98%. A security researcher also reverse-engineered a closed-source mainnet program, finding a critical vulnerability.
What we know
@toly reacted enthusiastically to a summary of Solana's 2026 upgrades: slot times halved from 400ms to 200ms, max tx size raised from 1,232 to 4,096 bytes, token transfer compute cut 98% with P-Token, finality cut from 12.8s to ~150ms with Alpenglow, and block compute limits raised. On the security side, @toly highlighted a reverse-engineering of the daosfun contract that exposed a critical mainnet vulnerability, endorsing the conclusion that 'there is no security by obscurity anymore.' StarkWare also flagged 2026 as the year they began building user-facing apps on top of ZK infrastructure, launching privacy-focused an account on X for Polymarket and another account on X for options trading.
Sources
“IBRL — reacting to Solana's 2026 stats: slot times halved, finality ~150ms, compute cut 98%”
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