Solana plans to launch the Alpenglow consensus upgrade in 2026, replacing the existing Tower BFT and PoH mechanisms. The new architecture achieves finality times of 100 to 150 milliseconds, approximately 100 times faster than the original 12.8 seconds. Core components include Votor voting aggregation and Rotor block propagation optimization, with latency reduced to as low as 18 milliseconds.

Cardano self-healed after a minority chain formed, removing the bugged transaction without losing most history or progress. BFT-style blockchains like Solana could face permanent issues in similar cases due to strict 67% consensus rules. Gradual stake growth on minority forks allows

The core upgrade proposal "Alpenglow" (SIMD-0326) for the Solana Blockchain has officially entered the community voting stage. This proposal aims to discard the existing Proof of History (PoH) and Tower BFT mechanisms, reducing the block finalization time from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. As a result, the price of SOL has surpassed $211, with an intraday rise of 3.78% and a trading volume surge of 43%. The retail investor sentiment ratio has reached an 11-week high. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the technical value of the Alpenglow upgrade, the voting progress, and its long-term impact on the SOL ecosystem.

High-performance BFT consensus engine powers Circle’s new stablecoin-focused Layer-1 blockchain launching in testnet later this year. TORONTO, Aug. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Informal Systems, a leader in blockchain infrastructure and protocol design, announced on August 12 that its high-performance c

Ripple's ABFT consensus once made it a leading fast and bank-friendly cryptocurrency. However, a new contender in 2025 offers greater accessibility, scalability, and user-friendliness for everyday people to profit using smartphones.

On April 8, at the Web3 Scholars Conference 2025 held in Hong Kong, Professor Zhao Zhong from Yale University's Department of Computer Science and co-founder of CertiK delivered a keynote speech titled "Security and Liveness Proof of Refined Consensus Protocols: LiDO and Its Extensions," publicly introducing for the first time the LiDO model and the LiDO-DAG extension framework developed by his team. This groundbreaking achievement aims to provide mechanizable verification of security and liveness proofs for complex Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) consensus protocols, laying a technological foundation for the reliability and scalability of the Web3 ecosystem. In this talk, Professor Shao Zhong pointed out that although existing consensus protocols (such as PBFT and Jolteon) are widely used, they often hide potential vulnerabilities due to their complex implementation. To solve this problem, Li

Focus on stability and performance, Mainnet accelerates upgrade Cosmos officially announced the development focus of the ecosystem in 2025 yesterday (12/23), which will focus on enhancing the security and scalability of the Mainnet (Cosmos Hub), as well as advancing the technical upgrades of the entire Interchain Stack. The core work includes optimizing block production speed, removing some modules that may drag down performance (such as LSM), and investing resources in auditing and testing to ensure smooth network operations. The official also revealed that the upcoming Cosmos SDK 2.0 and IBC (Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol) codenamed 'Eureka' will take reliability and usability to a new level, aiming to meet the massive transaction volume demands of decentralized applications. At the same time, the Cosmos project is strengthening its consensus engine Comet BFT

> BEVM's current ecology has reached scale, and the ecology has covered 14 tracks including Inscription Asset Issuance Protocol, Stablecoin, DEX, Lending, SocialFi, GameFi, Cross-chain Bridge, Oracle, Launchpad, and NFT MarketPlace. Written by: Editor of Web3CN BEVM is a BTC L2 built based on Taproot with BTC as Gas and compatible with EVM. It is a BFT consensus network composed of BTC's native Schnorr signature + Mast contract + 1000 Bitcoin light nodes. It has built a completely decentralized BTC L2 and is one of the few. BTC L2 has been launched on Xianxing.com. At present, BEVM Xianxing Network is running stably.

Author: Jill, LD Capital 1. Project Introduction Bluzelle (BLZ) is a decentralized data management system whose main goal is to provide tools, resources and technical capabilities to store and manage data, powered by BFT and Cosmos technologies, bringing scalability and censorship-free data storage to dApps . Essentially, Bluzelle is a peer-to-peer database hosting marketplace that connects users who want to rent storage space with those who need more storage space, with maximum security and scalability. Memory sharers are compensated in the form of BLZ, the network’s native token, which is used to obtain additional storage space, and users can pay a reasonable fee to use it. 2. Project progress Bluzelle was founded in 2014, originally for AIA, Maybe...

From the earliest Bitcoin, to Litecoin, the early stage of Ethereum, etc., the hardware mining (computing power) at that time was based on the PoW consensus mechanism, which also made miners the most "upstream" role in obtaining tokens. In 2011, QuantumMechanic proposed Proof of Stake (PoS) for the first time in the Bitcointalk forum, which replaced the weight of computing power by holding currency, which attracted the attention of many early participants. Subsequently, different public chain teams successively developed PoW+PoS hybrid consensus mechanism, DPoS, BFT+PoS and other PoS mechanisms, and gradually evolved well-known projects like ETH 2.0, Cosmos, Solana, Sui, Aptos and so on. Some public chain infrastructure builders have gradually shifted from PoW mining to PoS-based...