standard

Alpenglow

Redesigned consensus protocol for Solana that replaces the network's voting mechanism with aggregated BLS signatures and a capped consensus set.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Solana's second validator commission defaults to keeping all priority fees

Four SIMDs put commission into basis points and let validators split priority fees with delegators. The sharing is opt-in. The whole-percent field RPC still publishes rounds up, so a move of up to 99 basis points can hide behind it.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+18
Incentives22
Confidence55

build1 publisher

Alpenglow drops a vote account without a BLS key before it counts stake

The consensus set under Alpenglow is the top 2,000 vote accounts by stake, and the filter checks for a BLS public key in vote state before it considers stake at all. Each admitted seat pays 1.6 SOL an epoch.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence46
Adoption15
Hype gap+12
Incentives22
Confidence45