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Solana Alpenglow: how Votor replaces TowerBFT

Solana Alpenglow replaces TowerBFT with Votor, cutting finality from 12.8 seconds to 150ms. How it works, what changes for builders, and what could delay mainnet.

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June 25, 2026

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What is Firedancer on Solana? Architecture guide

Firedancer is Solana’s new validator client built for high throughput, lower latency, and greater resilience across the network and RPC infrastructure.

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May 20, 2026

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Solana deserialization AccountLoader & repr(C)

Most Solana programs hit a wall when state grows — Borsh serialization burns compute units and crashes the stack. Zero-copy maps your data directly, cutting CU costs by 98%.

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April 21, 2026