Solana Successfully Starts Community Voting Phase On Alpenglow
The most ambitious consensus overhaul foe Solana to date—SIMD-0326, nicknamed “Alpenglow”—has officially moved into the community voting window, a three-epoch process that began at the start of Epoch 840 and will conclude at the end of Epoch 842. The proposal rewrites Solana’s core consensus, replacing Proof-of-History plus TowerBFT with a modern architecture centered on a […]
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Solana core developers have pushed a sweeping consensus overhaul, “Alpenglow” (SIMD-0326), into the ecosystem’s formal governance track, setting up a validator vote that, if approved, would replace TowerBFT and re-architect finality and validator incentives on mainnet-beta. The proposal’s authors—Quentin Kniep, Kobi Sliwinski, and Roger Wattenhofer—describe Alpenglow as “a major overhaul of Solana’s core consensus protocol,” […]
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The Maker DAO community is voting on a proposal to harden the protocol's governance structure against flash loan voting.
The second annual EtherCamp hackaton has entered its voting phase. Judges will decide the winners of the $50,000 prize. Spectators can also participate by voting with tokens for which project should win. When the competition ends, the teams can then keep those funds to continue their development. The hackathon features a panel of judges, each of which will have 1,000 tokens to contribute towards the voting process. Judge Seeks Real-World Impact. One judge, Alex Shelkovnikov, Deloitte’s blockchain and corporate venturing lead in the United Kingdom, said he will be looking for real-world....