On October 21, 2026, Solana completed one of the most significant protocol transitions in its history when Anza's Alpenglow consensus system took over on mainnet-beta.
The Quantumglow proposal suggests replacing validator signature schemes without yet setting an implementation date on the mainnet. The Alpenglow consensus was activated on the Solana mainnet on October 21, 2026, during epoch 1064, reducing finality to 150 milliseconds.
Five transactions released assets on Solana and Ethereum after matching assets were not paid on WAX.
Bridge contracts on Solana and Ethereum released tokens after mapped WAX assets were withdrawn without matching payment.
The Nov. 15-17 conference is scheduled at Olympia in London; the City of London and World Series of Poker are also listed.
The Nasdaq-listed firm plans to run validators there through Pacific Backbone, an infrastructure initiative spanning four Asia-Pacific cities.
Solana (SOL) is entering a potentially game-changing chapter as Alpenglow, its biggest network upgrade since 2020, officially goes live.
Solana's futures market lost $12.9 million in open interest within a day, yet the long ratio holds at 2.57 accounts per short. What that means for the $100 level, and how to work out your own liquidation distance.
The investment management arm of Wall Street banking giant JPMorgan Chase has formally launched its money market funds on the Solana blockchain.
The claim was tied to a potential token supercycle, a theme discussed in earlier coverage of a Solana Foundation executive's long-term outlook.
The network's total so far this year exceeds its $3 trillion volume for all of 2025.
Reflect has launched Create on Solana, offering users a way to issue a branded yield-bearing stablecoin in one transaction and choose how interest is divided among holders.