<ul><li>Anza, a Solana infrastructure firm, has introduced a new consensus upgrade named Alpenglow to enhance speed and finality.</li><li>Alpenglow replaces Tower BFT and Proof of History with Votor and Rotor to reduce transaction finality to 150 milliseconds and decrease reliance on timestamping.</li><li>The dual-layer architecture of Alpenglow aims to position Solana as a competitor in Web2 infrastructure, with Votor and Rotor targeting sub-second finality.</li><li>Despite the improvements, Anza acknowledges that Alpenglow will not address all of Solana's technical challenges, but the network plans to improve client diversity for enhanced resilience.</li></ul>

Solana Replaces Tower BFT and Proof of History with Alpenglow Protocol

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