Morning Minute: Solana Is About To Get Faster

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Today’s top news:

• Crypto majors fall 3-5% after hot CPI; BTC at $80.9k
• Over $900M liquidated as crypto majors selloff; alts down 5-15%
• Solana sets Oct 21 for Alpenglow on mainnet
• Papertrade flips Circle in daily revenue with $7.5M
• Kalshi says state-level oversight would drive prediction markets offshore

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24h HighHigh$83,005

24h LowLow$80,444

VolVol$1.8B

Market projectionsOdds by Myriad

🏎️ Solana Cuts Finality From 12.8 Seconds to 150 Milliseconds

Next Wednesday, Solana rips out the engine and drops in a new one while the car is doing 70 on the highway.

On October 21, around 15:00 UTC, Solana activates Alpenglow on mainnet, retiring the consensus mechanism it has run on since launch. Finality drops from roughly 12.8 seconds to a target of about 150 milliseconds – 85 times faster. Anza, the core dev shop behind it, called it “18 months of work for a migration that happens in one slot.”

Finality is the moment a transaction stops being reversible, the point where you can hand over the goods knowing the payment can’t be clawed back. Solana has always felt instant, but there was a roughly 13-second window where a block could in theory still get dropped. Every exchange and payment processor has had to build around that window. Next week it closes.