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Whitepaper Reading Club - After Alpenglow
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Monday 16 November 2026 · 3:30pm · Venue to be confirmed · hosted by Whitepaper Reading Club
about this room
A roundtable on what comes after Alpenglow, the Solana consensus protocol that went live in October targeting around 150ms finality. The topic is Constellation, the multiple-concurrent-proposers design that lets several validators propose blocks at once, and what it means for censorship resistance, fairness and performance.
Roger Wattenhofer, Professor of Distributed Computing at ETH Zurich, and Quentin Kniep, a consensus researcher at Anza and ETH Zurich, co-authored the Alpenglow and Constellation papers. A DeFi quant dev from Flow Traders moderates. 15:30 to 17:00, during Solana Breakpoint week.
Free and approval-gated, and full when we checked on 13 Nov, so it's waitlist only. Exact location shared on registration.
the authors of the protocol papers in a small room, taking questions. Worth the waitlist for protocol engineers and anyone building latency-sensitive apps on Solana; skip it if you're after a Breakpoint party.
Roger Wattenhofer · Professor of Distributed Computing, ETH Zurich
Quentin Kniep · Distributed systems and applied cryptography researcher, Anza
getting there
rooms like this, every friday morning.
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