Solana’s performance push picked up fresh momentum this week as engineers behind Firedancer, the alternative high-performance validator client spearheaded by Jump, filed a new Solana Improvement Document (SIMD-0370) to remove the network’s block-level compute unit (CU) limit—a change they argue is now redundant after Alpenglow and would immediately translate into higher throughput and lower latency when demand spikes.

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The pull request , authored by the “Firedancer Team” and opened on September 24, 2025, is explicitly framed as a “post-Alpenglow” proposal. In Alpenglow, voter nodes broadcast a SkipVote if they cannot execute a proposed block within the allotted time. Because slow blocks are automatically skipped, the authors contend that a separate protocol-e

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