Alpenglow is a consensus upgrade for Solana that replaces the network’s two aging components — Proof of History and Tower BFT — with a pair of new protocols called Votor and Rotor. The Solana Alpenglow upgrade cuts the time it takes a transaction to become mathematically irreversible from roughly 12.8 seconds down to about 100–150 […] The post What Is Alpenglow? Solana’s New Consensus Mechanism Explained appeared first on NOWNodes Blog .