{"id":32978,"date":"2025-08-28T11:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32978"},"modified":"2025-08-28T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:30:13","slug":"solana-rises-6-following-vote-on-major-network-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/solana-rises-6-following-vote-on-major-network-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana Rises 6% Following Vote on Major Network Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of Solana (SOL) surged to $214.57, marking a 5.9% increase over the past day. This rise coincides with the commencement of voting on what is being termed the &#8220;most significant upgrade in the network&#8217;s history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/solana?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Solana<\/a> community has entered the voting stage for proposal SIMD-0326 Alpenglow, the most significant consensus upgrade proposal in the network\u2019s history. Designed to achieve 150ms block finality, the vote will run from epoch 840 to 842. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KqVsRy7NAu\">pic.twitter.com\/KqVsRy7NAu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SolanaFloor (@SolanaFloor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SolanaFloor\/status\/1960731822318326247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The asset has shown the best weekly performance among the top 10 cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfq4YIXtzVHfXjUXbSsF8tCBlglrtWuGnk4z41_OjUayuBnXUqrWZhADbVapUDKIR1pju72fA9UPjCtQQzYhFue6gNBxnHOs0iIC9i_cHYUm39mklJwE0AWKYp4eaeRcStcjW_neQ?key=FL6PV8rZ1zFOhwHiyXHSGw\" alt=\"Solana Rises 6% Following Vote on Major Network Upgrade\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/\">CoinGecko<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The community has begun voting on the <span data-descr=\"Solana Improvement Document \u2014 document for improving Solana\" class=\"old_tooltip\">SIMD<\/span>-0326 proposal named <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/solana-developers-unveil-high-performance-alpenglow-protocol\">Alpenglow<\/a>. Its main goal is to reduce block confirmation time to 150 ms. This will significantly speed up transaction finalization and the operation of decentralized applications.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal will replace the current consensus mechanisms of Proof-of-History and TowerBFT with a new architecture called Votor. It employs an off-chain voting system, which will reduce network load. Additionally, the update will implement a simplified block propagation system called Rotor, replacing the multi-tiered Turbine approach.<\/p>\n<p>The voting will last for three epochs\u2014from 840 to 842. A two-thirds majority of validators is required for a decision, with a quorum of 33%.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, 100 validators have expressed their decision, accounting for 10.6% of the total votes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfU67ssXD0AkQiSfpo86Da8n0ODLCk5APntxyW-EhJR1WwWU2Pyv2lIRFSP--G6h5LNmwcs7RV49uaZ_HVCodIVbe7vMCunl57NoCIdjlnJMD76zdmgRWMgI0cN9eq2-QnSLABWsg?key=FL6PV8rZ1zFOhwHiyXHSGw\" alt=\"Solana Rises 6% Following Vote on Major Network Upgrade\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/dune.com\/kagren0\/simd-0326-voting-status\">Dune<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back on August 17, Solana <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/solana-achieves-record-throughput-exceeding-100000-tps\">became the first network<\/a> to reach a speed of 107,540 transactions per second during a stress test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of Solana surged to $214.57, marking a 5.9% increase over the past day, amid voting on a major network upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Solana's price surged 5.9% amid voting on a major network upgrade.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1159,1134,785],"class_list":["post-32978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-solana-sol","tag-technical-updates","tag-voting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"306","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Solana's price surged 5.9% amid voting on a major network upgrade.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32980,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32978\/revisions\/32980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}