The Alpenglow upgrade on the Solana mainnet reduced transaction finality latency from approximately 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds

Base blockchains that settle transactions on their own network, such as Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche, competing on security, throughput, decentralization, and developer ecosystems.

Approaches to processing more transactions without sacrificing security or decentralization, spanning rollups, sharding, data compression, and faster consensus designs.