PANews reported on May 20 that according to DL News, researchers from the Solana core development team Anza proposed a consensus protocol upgrade called "Alpenglow", which aims to reduce the final block confirmation time from 13 seconds to 0.1 seconds and increase the network speed by 100 times. The plan was designed by the team of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and has been supported by core members such as co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko.

If the community governance vote is passed, this largest protocol upgrade in Solana's history may be implemented in late 2025 or early 2026. Developers said that after the upgrade, the network will have real-time response capabilities comparable to Web2 infrastructure, supporting new application scenarios such as non-delayed payments and games. Previously, Solana's inflation adjustment proposal was not passed, but the team is optimistic about this technical upgrade.