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Despite all the optimizations, the current mechanism has limits
Tower BFT requires >66% of stake to be online and voting or else the network would halt. PoH made synchronization easier but introduced it's own complexity. Turbine relies on timing sensitive relay trees.
Alpenglow replaces all of it. No PoH, no TBFT, new evolution of Turbine.
Consensus is handled by two new mechanisms: Rotor (for block propagation) and Votor (for voting and finalization).
The goal? Finality in 100 - 150ms, faster than most web apps load!
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