The targeted 150-millisecond finality under the Alpenglow upgrade aims to provide faster irreversibility guarantees for merchants accepting payments and cross-chain bridges releasing funds on Solana

Using crypto and stablecoins to pay for things, from payment cards and merchant checkout to payroll, remittances and cross-border settlement.

Technologies that let separate blockchains exchange assets and messages, including bridges, cross-chain messaging protocols, and shared security layers.

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