Overview
- The Alpenglow Votor phase will activate on mainnet on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at epoch 1064 and validators must run Agave 4.3.2 or a supported client before the epoch boundary.
- Validators must fund vote accounts with at least 0.8 SOL to pay the Validator Admission Ticket or they cannot vote or produce blocks in the following epoch.
- The 150-millisecond figure is an engineering target not a guarantee, and real-world finality will depend on validator participation and live-network conditions.
- Providers such as Quicknode warn the consensus handoff may briefly pause new transactions entering blocks and disrupt data streams or subscriptions for a short period.
- Removing on-chain vote transactions will lower headline transaction counts and force explorers, indexers and analytics teams to re-baseline metrics while unstaked RPC nodes may see later finality signals.