Max Resnick's Vision to Revolutionize Solana

Max Resnick, formerly an Ethereum advocate, now sees Solana as a blockchain with the potential to rival major stock exchanges like the NYSE and NASDAQ. Speaking at the Solana Accelerate conference, Resnick outlined a vision to turn Solana into a 'decentralized NASDAQ' by achieving high transaction speeds and volumes. The proposed Alpenglow initiative seeks to overhaul Solana’s consensus protocol to enhance responsiveness and performance, allowing Solana to support new application categories requiring real-time functionality. Resnick and Anza are exploring a 'multi-leader system' to process multiple blocks concurrently. Resnick's goal is to achieve a transaction confirmation time of around 150 milliseconds. Further details are expected in an upcoming detailed paper.