truly insane stuff.
rotor making me feel like a smooth brain for previously just assuming the tradeoffs of turbine were a given (cascading failure if close to root node in the tree fully shits the bed which erasure shreds dont help much with), super clean design
didn't fully dig into the intricacies of votor yet, but using bls for votes has felt like a total no-brainer with huge payoff for ages (the *idea* of it at least, I'm sure it wasn't easy!), extremly cool to see this being implemented
and yea it goes without saying that ~150ms finalization times for a globally distributed chain is just mind-boggingly fast. accelarate!
1/ Introducing the largest Solana Protocol change ever: Alpenglow, Solana's new consensus protocol conceived by the Anza Research team. Say goodbye to Tower BFT and Proof of History. Say hello to Votor & Rotor 🧵👇