Solana's Alpenglow Revolution reshapes the speed and scale of blockchain

Solana's market cap has surpassed the BNB chain, thanks to investors' confidence in its Alpenglow consensus protocol. Alpenglow replaces TowerBFT and Proof-of-History, introducing a Votor mechanism to reduce the finalization time to 100-150 milliseconds. It contains a validator ticket that costs 1.6 SOL per cycle and improves reward allocation. Governance proposals such as SIMD-0326 are under community review and require a quorum of 33% to pass. Analysts expect Alpenglow will increase Solana's appeal to DeFi and high-frequency applications, enhance network resilience and attract interest from institutional investors.