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Helius: Alpenglow - Solana's Great Consensus Rewrite
Alpenglow is the work of Anza’s new research division, tasked to redesign Solana’s consensus algorithm to be more performant and provably correct, while preserving its Turbine-based architecture.
This article provides a deep dive on Alpenglow, covering:
> Solana’s current consensus mechanism & its limitations
> How Alpenglow reshape Solana’s consensus model
> Alpenglow's core components & how it works
> Its performance benchmarks and simulation results
> Its impact on validators and RPC providers👇
Source: https://www.helius.dev/blog/alpenglow#what-is-alpenglows-impact-on-validators