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💥 NEW CONSENSUS FOR SOLANA 💥

The Anza team, a "spin-off" of Solana Labs, has introduced Alpenglow, a new consensus protocol for Solana, created specifically for a global high-performance blockchain based on Proof-of-Stake.
https://x.com/anza_xyz

This is the largest update to the Solana architecture, and it may become a turning point in its development.
https://www.anza.xyz/blog/alpenglow-a-new-consensus-for-solana

What is changing?

Solana is abandoning Proof-of-History and TowerBFT, mechanisms that previously ensured synchronization and finality of blocks, but added latency and complexity.

They are being replaced by Votor, which is responsible for voting and finality of blocks, and Rotor, a new data transfer protocol based on the concept of Turbine, but with improvements.

Alpenglow also moves away from the gossip data distribution scheme and moves to direct, faster interaction between nodes.
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