Solana Labs offshoot Anza pitches ‘biggest change’ ever to network consensus

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Solana Labs spin-out Anza proposed a new Solana consensus protocol to replace TowerBFT and the proof-of-history system, aiming to bring Web2-level speed to the network.

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Brayden Lindrea

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May 19, 2025

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Cointelegraph

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https://cointelegraph.com/news/solana-labs-offshoot-anza-consensus-protocol-alpenglow

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Anza launches Alpenglow

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Anza researchers claimed that ‘Alpenglow will shatter both these latency bounds’ and the project expects it to reach actual finality in about 150 milliseconds, rivaling internet infrastructure.

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Alpenglow consists of Votor, which processes voting transactions and block finalization logic, and Rotor, a data dissemination protocol that would replace Solana’s proof-of-history timestamping system and aim to reduce the time it takes for all nodes to agree on the network state.

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