Solana’s Alpenglow Revolution: Can it surpass Pepe Dollar’s ​​hype?

The pre-sale of Pepe Dollar has raised $2 million, driven primarily by Solana whale users who want to take the lead. The project combines the attractiveness of meme coins with structured token economics and DeFi practicality. Meanwhile, the Alpenglow consensus protocol proposed by Solana is designed to replace Proof-of-History and TowerBFT, with the goal of achieving sub-second finality with latency as low as 100-150 milliseconds. The Votor protocol supports direct voting for efficiency, while the Verifier Admission (VAT) charges 1.6 SOL per cycle to maintain economic equity. Alpenglow’s improvements may attract more DeFi applications, thereby enhancing Solana’s competitiveness.