SOLANIC GOTTA GO FAST
Solana mainnet · live
Solana's biggest upgrade everOn Wednesday it gets ~45× faster
The wait before a Solana transaction is locked in for good goes from ~7 seconds to ~0.15 seconds. Faster than a blink. Faster than you can react. Watch it happen live, right here.
What's going on?
Send money on Solana and it shows up instantly. But it isn't permanent yet.
For about 7 seconds the network is still checking it. After that it's locked in for good and can never be reversed. That wait is the big red number up top, measured live every second.
Until the switch, the network spent about 7 seconds checking it. After that it's locked in for good and can never be reversed. That wait is the number up top, measured live every second.
On Wednesday, Solana switches on Alpenglow.Solana just switched on Alpenglow.
A new way for Solana's computers to agree on each block. The press and the Solana Foundation call it the biggest upgrade in the network's history.
The wait drops from ~7 seconds to ~0.15 seconds.
About 45× faster. A blink takes ~0.3 s. Reacting takes ~0.25 s. After Wednesday, At its target, Solana locks in your transaction before you could even click.
Why it matters
Payments, trades and games on Solana start to feel instant and final, more like tapping a card than waiting on a bank transfer.
When the countdown hits zero, watch the number fall off a cliff.The number fell off a cliff. The chart below shows it.
Then play the game below: can you react faster than Solana? Almost nobody beats 150 ms.
Beat Solana
Six levels. Each one, a Solana block races across the pad. Tap before it lands. Every level is faster. Can you get past 150 ms?
Watch the cliff
Lock-in time, every 5 seconds, last 48 h. When Alpenglow switches on, this line should drop to the floor.The drop is the moment Alpenglow switched on.