Solana to Crank Up Scalability as Alpenglow Vote Passes with 98.27% in Favor

To no one’s great surprise, network participants have greenlit the development and implementation of Alpenglow, a new consensus mechanism designed to catapult Solana’s scalability to new heights.

Over 98.27% of voters opted in favor, demonstrating overwhelming support for the proposal and a unified desire across the ecosystem to see Solana grow.

With the formalities taken care of, what happens next?

98.27% of Voters Support Alpenglow

Voting on SIMD-0326, the governance proposal outlining Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade, has passed with flying colours. Onchain data indicates that 52.05% of network stake made their voices heard, with 98.27% of voters opting in favor of the proposal.

As expected, the vast majority of teams and validators were in support of Alpenglow. Even before the vote began, many network participants were convinced that Aplenglow's approval was a foregone conclusion. 

However, that didn’t stop Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko from encouraging validators “not to be lazy”.

Amidst the remarkably small number of validators who voted against the proposal, one name stood out. According to Dune Analytics, the Ledger By Chorus One validator cast 100% of its votes against the proposal. Given that Chorus One was adamantly supportive of the proposal, one can assume that the decision to vote against Alpenglow implementation came from Ledger.

Ledger’s other validator, operated in partnership with Figment, did not vote in the proposal.

Alpenglow to Push Solana Scalability to New Heights

Alpenglow is slated to be one of Solana’s most consequential updates in the network’s history. Developed by Anza, Alpenglow promises a technical overhaul of Solana’s Proof-of-History, consensus mechanism. The update is theorized to make Solana 100x faster, bringing transaction latency down from around 12 seconds to as low as 100ms.

Alpenglow is centered around two key pieces. Votor, an off-chain signature aggregator that enables sub-second confirmations, and Rotor, a block propagation system that replaces Turbine. Together, they streamline network consensus, remove onchain vote transactions, and cut ledger bloat to boost performance. 

A “20+20” resilience model aims to preserve safety with up to 20% adversarial stake and maintain liveness even if another 20% of stake goes offline. Additionally, Alpenglow reportedly enables block leaders to earn higher rewards for aggregating votes and finalizing transactions.

Wen Alpenglow?

Unfortunately, no concrete timeline has been given for Alpenglow implementation. Development rollouts typically take longer than expected, and updates of this size are prone to numerous delays.

While it’s unlikely that we’ll see Alpenglow live onchain in 2025, network contributors are optimistic that the update will be rolled out sometime next year.

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