Solana’s native token surged to a new all-time high shortly after the year began, but the 2025 story of the speedy layer-1 network was not all up and to the right: SOL has finished the year in a serious slump, down substantially since this time last year. Nevertheless, the network made big headlines, notched major technical improvements, launched another mobile phone, and found a way to better intertwine with traditional financial markets.  Here’s a look back at how 2025 shaped up for Solana.  Trump launc ...

🚨 UPDATE: Solana's SIMD-0326 Alpenglow voting process has started.The proposal aims to reduce block finality time from 12.8 seconds to 150ms through new consensus protocol changes. https://t.co/3rw3wxSL1w ...

Protocol Update - Alpenglow is a new consensus protocol for Solana, replacing Proof-of-History and TowerBFT [1] - Alpenglow aims to reduce block finality from 12800ms to 150ms, a reduction of approximately 988% [1]

Technology & Performance - Solana's new consensus protocol achieves 100x faster finality, reaching just 100 milliseconds, the fastest among Layer 1 blockchains [1] - Shred propagation speed is reduced to only 20 milliseconds, enabling faster pre-confirmations and advanced trading [1] - Validator profitability increases due to the removal of votes, contributing to higher Transactions Per Second (TPS) [1]