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The overhaul also aims to cut validator costs by about 60%, while its six test-network restarts and a failed migration show the scale of the change.
Yakovenko framed the release — already approved by 98% of validators — as a shift from raw throughput to consistency and sub-second finality, the layer financial apps actually need to bet on.
If mainnet lands next quarter as Yakovenko flagged at Consensus Miami, finality drops from seconds to near real-time — the biggest architectural shift in Solana's history and the first test of the…
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