Alpenglow’s white paper acknowledged that the new consensus protocol will not eliminate Solana’s ongoing vulnerability to network outages.

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Solana currently only has one production-ready client, Agave, meaning any security vulnerability in Agave can disrupt the entire Solana network.

The project’s white paper noted that switching to Alpenglow wouldn’t completely shield Solana from the network outages that it has experienced in the past.