Alpenglow's 2,000 Validator Seats and the 1.6 SOL Ticket

Originally published on xroot.dev. Solana has around 1,300 validators voting today, give or take the epoch, and the number has never mattered much to a delegator. You picked one, you delegated, it voted, you earned. Under Alpenglow the number matters a great deal, because the protocol caps the consensus set at exactly 2,000 vote accounts — and the...