[Solana's New Consensus Protocol Alpenglow Goes Live on Mainnet] Foresight News reports that the Solana client development team Anza announced via a tweet that Solana's new consensus protocol, Alpenglow, has officially gone live on the Solana mainnet (mainnet-beta). The transaction finalization time has been reduced from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. The genesis block for Alpenglow has been generated, and the previous consensus mechanism, TowerBFT, has been officially retired. This upgrade's genesis slot is 459,653,000, activated during epoch 1064, with a total of 654 validators participating. The switch took 900 milliseconds.