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Solana's own accounts say block times are heading to 200ms. Everything else is unstated.
Solana's official account posted a five-step ladder from 400ms to 200ms block times and a live monitoring page, but attached no dates, no mechanism, and no independent verification.
Solana research backs halving slot times to 200ms, and concedes validators pay for it
Solana's foundation published research backing SIMD-0525, a staged cut in target slot time from 400ms to 200ms, and conceding it would double validator voting costs.
Anza publishes Agave 4.3 release schedule, with Alpenglow staged for activation
Anza published the release schedule for Agave 4.3, the Solana validator client build that stages the Alpenglow feature set, two new syscalls and increased CPI depth for activation.
A proposal to burn validator rewards lands as ETH staking hits 34%
Ethereum researchers including the Ethereum Foundation's Justin Drake filed EIP-8361 on Aug. 4, a proposal to burn a rising share of validator rewards that its own authors model as halving staking yield.
Solana talks up Agave 4.2 — three feature-gated changes, no release date
Solana's official accounts say the Agave 4.2 validator release will cut rent 90%, expand transaction size 3.3x and bring 200ms slot times — all feature-gated, with no ship date disclosed.
Solana Moves to Split and Burn Base Fees After 'Resource and Inclusion Fees' SIMD Is Accepted
Solana's Resource and Inclusion Fees improvement document reached "accepted" status, routing 2,500 lamports of each base fee to validators and burning the rest based on requested compute units.
Solana merges the final flag to start turning on Alpenglow, with a Testnet target of July
Solana's July 2 developer changelog says Agave v4.1.0 merged the final feature flag to begin activating the Alpenglow consensus overhaul, which the team expects to reach Testnet in July and Mainnet in August.
Solana touts sub-second finality with 'Alpenglow' — the numbers, and where they come from
A widely shared post says Solana's "Alpenglow" upgrade will cut transaction finality to 100–150 milliseconds after a 98% validator vote, with mainnet targeted for Q3 2026 — but every figure traces to a single amplified social post, not a primary source.
Ethereum Foundation Begins Staking ~70,000 ETH From Its Treasury
The Ethereum Foundation has begun solo staking roughly 70,000 ETH from its treasury, directing rewards back to the treasury while running minority clients and distributed signing across multiple jurisdictions.
MoneyGram Joins Solana's Developer Platform and Runs a Validator, Both Sides Say
The Solana Foundation says MoneyGram has joined its Developer Platform and begun running a network validator, though no product, timeline, stablecoin, or validator details were disclosed.