Odaily reports that the Alpenglow upgrade for the Solana blockchain network has entered public testnet, with developers set to test reducing transaction finality from approximately 13 seconds to 0.15 seconds, or 150 milliseconds.The upgrade will replace Solana's existing TowerBFT consensus system with Votor, allowing validators to confirm blocks through one or two rounds of direct voting, though the way users send funds will not change.The initial testnet migration requires Agave 4.3, and Firedancer or Frankendancer are not yet supported. The September 28 mainnet update remains a tentative arrangement and is not a confirmed launch date for Alpenglow. (CoinDesk)

According to Odaily, the Bitwise CEO posted on X that over the past two days, the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF BSOL saw over $60 million in inflows, with assets under management surpassing $1.2 billion, setting an all-time high. He stated that Solana appears set to become the Solana of this cycle.

According to Odaily, at 20:14 Beijing time today, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana network.

Odaily reports that according to GMGN market data, the Solana ecosystem Meme coin "+++++" briefly broke through $4 million in market cap, now reported at approximately $3.9 million, with an intraday gain of over 79x.On the news front, Crypto Waterman stated that Roaring Kitty logged into their "wizard account" today and wrote "+++++", drawing attention from the GME community.Odaily reminds readers that Meme coins are subject to significant price volatility and are easily influenced by market sentiment and trending events. Please be aware of trading risks.

Odaily reports: Solana founder Toly posted on X, stating: "AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is still a long way off. As for my test project Percolator, if I were writing the code full-time myself, it would probably already be launched by now. The area where AI performs best is in the design and specification research phase, as well as fuzz testing to find bugs. If that approach were adopted, code quality would likely be better. But the number of good products actually brought to market today is unlikely to be greater than before the era of large models."Previously, Toly announced last year that he would launch Percolator, a next-generation perpetual futures decentralized exchange built on Solana. It uses a sharded order book, executes at speeds comparable to centralized exchanges (CEX), and is fully open-source.

Odaily News: The ZetaChain community has passed Proposal 68 with a voter participation rate of 58%, exceeding the 40% quorum threshold; both against votes and abstentions accounted for 0.3%.ZetaChain stated that the project will shift its focus to Anuma, an AI application launched in February this year, and will no longer maintain its independent Layer 1 built on Cosmos SDK. Anuma claims to have over 300,000 users and has processed 1 million requests from 35 AI models.According to the proposal, ZETA will be converted to Solana-native SPL tokens at a 1:1 ratio, retaining the original token ticker and total supply, with the existing unlock schedule unchanged; ZETA on Ethereum and BNB Chain is not included in this migration. The shutdown timeline has not yet been determined, and a second vote will be held to determine the balance snapshot block, shutdown block, token claiming, and asset withdrawal plans. The project team will not initiate the second vote until trading platforms confirm the exchange arrangements; during this period, ZETA staking will continue.

Odaily reports that according to GMGN market data, Solana ecosystem token STAMP's market cap briefly surpassed $14 million, currently at approximately $12 million, with an intraday gain of over 160x.According to the project team, since Zcash has not yet completed the network upgrade to support asset issuance, STAMP attempts to achieve cross-chain asset mapping through NFTs and SPL tokens: users burn SPL tokens to obtain NFTs, and use these NFTs to redeem corresponding assets on Zcash.Odaily reminds users that this token is subject to significant price volatility and is easily affected by market sentiment and trending events. Please be aware of trading risks.

Odaily reports that Solana lowered its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds on September 18, marking the third speed increase since August. As the computation and data each slot can carry are proportionally reduced, overall network throughput has not increased; this adjustment is the third phase of the four-phase SIMD-0525 plan, with slot time having been reduced from 400 milliseconds at genesis through 350 milliseconds and 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds. The final step down to 200 milliseconds has not yet been scheduled for mainnet activation, contingent on validator skip rates remaining stable.

Odaily Report: The proposal has been published on ZetaHub, proposing to convert ZETA to a Solana native SPL token at a 1:1 ratio while retaining the original token ticker; no migration will take place until ZETA holders complete voting.The proposal also plans to introduce Anuma, a privacy-focused multi-model AI application. Anuma has 300,000 users, supports unified memory across models, and has launched a beta feature for real-life social discovery. Voting will open on September 17 and last for 72 hours.

Odaily: Solana shortened its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds on Friday, increasing block production frequency by nearly 17%. The computing resources and data volume available per slot are reduced accordingly, while the network's overall transaction processing capacity remains unchanged.This adjustment is the third of four planned phases in the SIMD-0525 proposal. The window during which validators have block production rights for four consecutive slots has been shortened from 1.2 seconds to 1 second, and the estimated duration of an Epoch, fixed at 432,000 slots, has been reduced from about 36 hours to about 30 hours.The next phase plans to further reduce slot time to 200 milliseconds, but a mainnet launch date has not yet been determined, and the implementation condition is that the block skip rate remains stable. (Decrypt)