EmiT | IBRL/acc

CTO @StakingFac

[EmiT | IBRL/acc @EmiT87]

🧵 Solana's about to hit different with @jump_firedancer on mainnet! Let me tell you why... (1/7)

[mert @mert]

how is this different than the last 8 years

[Adam Piechowicz 🇨🇿🇺🇦🇬🇱🇹🇼 @AdamPiechowicz1]

🇬🇱🌄

[Roger Wattenhofer @TheWattenhofer]

With Alpenglow, the CU limit is literally infinity! You can pack as many transactions as you like, as long as enough validators execute in time to vote before they time out.

[Computer ♥ Records @ComputerLove_]

Who used Winamp?!

[Matthias Schmitz @StakingMatthias]

new GUI, who dis?
https://t.co/guiS4H7A4O

[dr cavey phd ∿ @cavemanloverboy]

the highest EV thing solana can do rn for markets is not MCP, 100M cu blocks, ACE, or any other of these big ideas

it's 2x200ms leader windows

[Bryan | Titan Analytics @Bryan_TitanA]

Titan Analytics was part of this. It was honestly magical. From 11 second finalization to 0.3s. 😱

@solana

[Matthias Schmitz @StakingMatthias]

One of the coolest things to watch after the Alpenglow migration: tx processed → tx finalized latency is sitting very stable at ~110ms 👀⚡

That’s a massive improvement compared to current Solana mainnet finalization times and makes the network feel almost instant 🚀

[Matthias Schmitz @StakingMatthias]

Alpenglow migration complete ✅⚡

Finalization is now dramatically faster, the processed/confirmed/finalized slot gap has nearly disappeared, and commitments are converging 🚀

TPS now reflects actual user activity more clearly.

https://t.co/k5DhIAXIu1

[EmiT | IBRL/acc @EmiT87]

Less than 5000 slots to Alpenswitch. What is gonna happen? Watch live here https://t.co/pCyBap8FBn

[Matthias Schmitz @StakingMatthias]

You can watch the AlpenSwitch changes kick in live on the Community Cluster here 👀⚡

https://t.co/k5DhIAXIu1

[EmiT | IBRL/acc @EmiT87]

Yeah, we are running a few of these beauties :) It is even nicer, when everything is connected a blinking.

[DoubleZero @doublezero]

DoubleZero is deeply physical.

95 devices. 30+ metros worldwide. 14 independent fiber contributors.

This is what a DoubleZero network device looks like in the physical world ↓

[Matthias Schmitz @StakingMatthias]

Since epoch 3, the feature gate for SIMD-0357 (Alpenglow VAT implementation) has been active on the Community Cluster ✅

In ~2h, epoch 5 begins 👀

SIMD-0326 Alpenglow, the new consensus algorithm, is ready to go.

Ship it @Ashwinningg 🍿⚡

Watch live:
https://t.co/b3tJyhFL8K

[SolanaFloor @SolanaFloor]

BREAKING: @anza_xyz Head of Research @TheWattenhofer and his co-authors have received the 2026 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their 2011 paper “Distributed Verification and Hardness of Distributed Approximation.”

[Matthias Schmitz @StakingMatthias]

We’re back ✅

After the restart, the Alpenglow Community Cluster is now successfully confirming and finalizing slots 🚀

Huge thanks to everyone involved for the fast coordination from identifying the issue to shipping the restart in just a few hours 🙏

https://t.co/k5DhIAXIu1

[EmiT | IBRL/acc @EmiT87]

@StakingMatthias Wen Alpenswitch @TimGarcia0

[EmiT | IBRL/acc @EmiT87]

… and we are live :) The next step is Alpenswitch :)

[EmiT | IBRL/acc @EmiT87]

It is coming... We need just 4% to start creating blocks on #alpenglow testnet for @solana . You can check realtime status on our dashboard https://t.co/pCyBap8FBn made by @StakingMatthias

[Matthias Schmitz @StakingMatthias]

We are live! ✅

The Alpenglow Community Cluster is now producing blocks with Tower Consensus enabled 🚀

Huge thanks to all validators who helped bootstrap the network 🙏

Next step: activating the AG feature gates ⚡

https://t.co/k5DhIAXIu1

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

JUST IN: @Solana co-founder @toly reveals that Alpenglow release as early as next quarter

He dives deep into the upgrade on the @Anchorage Digital Mainstage at @consensus2026