Alpenglow just cut Solana's finality to 150ms | Anza CEO explains why that matters for AI agents

Alpenglow just cut Solana's finality to 150 milliseconds. Anza CEO Brennan Watt explains why that speed matters for AI agents:

"Solana engineers at their core are performance maxis or performance maximalists. And there are a bunch of great things that you get when you build a super high performance backend.

You get scale to go absorb lots of activity...

So you get scale by hyper-performance optimizing things. You get affordability because you can have such a high volume, the end cost to the user, how much you have to charge to actually make it profitable is extremely low.

So you get extremely affordable transactions, which starts a flywheel where you get more activity.

And then also you get extremely short settlement times when you go make performance top-notch and super low latencies...

And I think people are radically underestimating the new business models, leveraging micropayments in a world where agents are prolific."

— Brennan Watt, CEO of Anza, with @KingSolomon123 on @GenfinityMedia