Solana news and tips for builders from the fastest RPC provider on Solana. @Quicknode

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One week since Building Financial Software on Solana came out and we have some news! 😁
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me at school pickup today
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All docs and guides on quicknode.com/chains/solana are updated for Alpenglow, Solana CLI 4.3.2 is recommended everywhere, and solanabook.org is already written to assume Alpenglow. 🟩
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Didn’t use ‘beta’ for mainnet cluster in the Solana book.
🚨BREAKING: Both @Solana co-founders call for dropping the “beta” label after Alpenglow goes live. @rajgokal says, “Kill the word ‘beta’ with fire.” @toly asks to “remove the beta tag in the explorer.”
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Didn’t use ‘beta’ for mainnet cluster in the Solana book.
🚨BREAKING: Both @Solana co-founders call for dropping the “beta” label after Alpenglow goes live. @rajgokal says, “Kill the word ‘beta’ with fire.” @toly asks to “remove the beta tag in the explorer.”
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Send a transaction: trade, transfer, swap, mint, anything onchain. Then tell us how 150ms feels. 🎤
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that finality tho
Alpenglow is live on mainnet-beta ⛰️ 🎉 Solana’s new consensus protocol: finality reduced from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds, built by Anza. Why this is important 🧵
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Alpenglow is live on mainnet-beta ⛰️ 🎉 Solana’s new consensus protocol: finality reduced from 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds, built by Anza. Why this is important 🧵
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The best free resources to learn Solana security in 2026. Bookmark this:
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Alpenglow is pending activation on mainnet-beta. Alpenglow goes live tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct 21 at ~14:00 UTC. One slot, and TowerBFT retires. Migration boundary: slot 459,653,000. 24-hour countdown starts soon. Turn on notifications. 🔔
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Another win for Black founders. We're teaming up with @Quicknode to take infrastructure costs off the table for our founders for an entire year. Because the best use of a founder's resources is building something people actually want. The Black perks vault keeps growing.
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Download it for free: solanabook.org Amazon: amazon.com/Building-Financia… Barnes and Noble: barnesandnoble.com/w/buildin… Read it already? A review on Amazon really helps: amazon.com/review/create-rev… 🟩
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if your company needs to on/off ramp stablecoins or just make global payments, all @altitude accounts now ship with swift connectivity for named pay-ins and payouts in 120+ countries tell your bot about it
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v3 is officially the default install for @solana/web3.js. Still need v1? Install it with @solana/web3.js@1. More info on v3 👇
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Alpenglow hits mainnet Wednesday with finality dropping from ~12s to a 150ms target! More details in this week's @colosseum Codex along with a free @QuicknodeSolana Building Financial Software book, @Ledger Atom + @solanamobile Seeker, and @blueshift Pull Payments Link 👇
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awesome contribution to ecosystem 👏👏 – at Phra Khanong Nuea, Thailand
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It's amazing to see that Solana was able to advertise and even get an office in China. 👏 @BNBChain was not able to do this, so far. 🤣 Hopefully, what's good for one industry player is also good for the rest.
What a Day 1 in Shanghai. From visiting the new office to seeing Solana light up the Shanghai skyline. Quite a way to kick off the week! Incredible energy from the community here.
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