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Solana Alpenglow: What 150ms Finality Really Changes

Solana is preparing one of the most important consensus changes in its history. Solana Alpenglow is scheduled to activate on mainnet in epoch 1064, which the Solana Foundation currently expects to begin on October 21, 2026 at approximately 15:00 UTC. The upgrade replaces TowerBFT with Votor and targets roughly 150 milliseconds of transaction finality, compared with about 12.8 seconds under the previous consensus model

KSD Tokenized Securities: Why Korea Chose Multi-Ledger

South Korea is moving its tokenized-securities framework from legislation into production infrastructure, with Korea Securities Depository (KSD) preparing a platform designed to connect multiple distributed ledgers, including Avalanche, Hyperledger Besu and Hyperledger Fabric. Samsung SDS, which previously worked on KSD's testbed, is building the production platform with completion targeted for February 2027, alongside the implementation of Korea's revised legal framework for tokenized securities.

Stablecoins as Cash Equivalents: What FASB Could Change

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is considering guidance that could allow certain digital assets, including qualifying stablecoins, to be treated as cash equivalents under existing U.S. GAAP principles. The proposal does not declare stablecoins to be cash and does not automatically make USDC, USDT or every dollar-pegged token eligible. Instead, FASB is clarifying how the existing definition of cash equivalents could apply when a digital asset has appropriate reserves, reliable convertibility and qualifying contractual redemption rights.
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