Alpenglow is live on mainnet-beta ⛰️ 🎉
Solana’s new consensus protocol: finality reduced from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds, built by Anza.
Why this is important 🧵
Today’s the day: @solana’s Alpenglow upgrade activates at 13:20 UTC.
The biggest consensus change since launch, targeting finality in ~150ms, down from ~12.8 seconds.
Solana is just getting started.
🚨BREAKING BIG: Alpenglow, @Solana’s biggest consensus upgrade in history, is now live on mainnet.
Transaction finality has dropped as low as 394ms from 12.8 seconds,
Our CIO @RyanNavi on why he chose a @Solana treasury company: the best-positioned chain for real-world asset tokenization and for consumer applications where speed and cost are what users feel.
Solana is the RWA chain.
8.92 billion non-vote transactions on Solana in Q3 2026. Up 104% from Q4 2025.
Real, economic activity, more than doubling in under a year.
@solana is the chain with the most economic activity.
For decades, market access has come down to whose servers sit closest to the matching engine.
@KyleSamani, Chairman of Forward Industries, on what changes when the engine is everywhere.
The future of finance runs on @solana.
Tokenized equity was a demo not long ago. Now 1.4 million addresses hold stocks on Solana.
The onchain equity market is becoming a real market on @solana.
Revenue is the honest measure of a network: what people are willing to pay to use it.
Solana leads every tracked chain in app revenue, across every timeframe.
The future of finance runs on Solana.
solana is dominating onchain app revenue across every major timeframe.
according to the latest data, @Solana leads all tracked chains in revenue generated by applications.
here's the breakdown:
24H: $3.53M
7D: $30.38M
30D: $161.97M
solana generated more app revenue over the past 30 days than Hyperliquid L1 ($74.27M) and Ethereum ($53.76M) combined.
that's roughly 3x Ethereum's app revenue and 2.2x Hyperliquid's. opos
Cloud providers have pulled Solana nodes offline before. A large share of the network went dark for days. Blocks kept coming.
@KyleSamani, Chairman of Forward Industries, on the decentralization test that matters.
A couple of years ago, onchain equity trading barely existed. Solana just did its biggest quarter yet: $7.1B+ in Q3.
The future of finance runs on @solana.
BREAKING: @Solana records its biggest quarter ever for tokenized equities trading volume, surpassing $7.1B in Q3 2026.
@Backpack has surged from around $1B last quarter to $3.25B, closing in on @xStocksFi at $3.43B.
🚨JUST IN: Stablecoin card spending is seeing explosive growth across all chains.
@Solana’s monthly volume rose 478% in a year, from $19.7M to $113.9M, hitting an all-time high every month except June.
I will be hosting a Space on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 3PM EDT with Chief Investment Officer of @FWDind, @RyanNavi. We will discuss Solana, his company, and the future of onchain finance. Forward is the largest $SOL treasury company.
$FWDI
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Can you actually trade at scale on Solana today?
“Definitively, the answer is yes.”
@KyleSamani, Chairman of $FWDI, at Digital Asset Summit 2026.
The future of finance runs on Solana.