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#Solana Developers Propose Removing Block Limits After #Alpenglow

#Solana developers are considering a proposal to eliminate block limits once the network's planned Alpenglow upgrade takes effect, a change designed to expand throughput by allowing performance to scale with validator hardware. Filed Friday as SIMD-0370, the proposal would remove Solana's current 60 million compute unit cap per block.

The proposal submitted by the Firedancer development team at Jump Crypto would allow block size to adjust dynamically. Blocks could expand to accommodate as many transactions as the fastest validators can handle, while smaller validators could simply skip voting on blocks exceeding their capacity through a skip-vote mechanism.

#JumpCrypto is the digital assets arm of Chicago-based Jump Trading Group. Earlier this month, Jump Crypto provided funding for Forward Industries' $1.65 billion PIPE deal, alongside Galaxy Digital and Multicoin Capital, helping establish a public $SOL treasury strategy.

Lifting Solana's block cap could raise throughput by enabling stronger validators to pack in more transactions. However, this approach may tilt rewards toward operators with bigger machines, creating a trade-off between scaling capacity and maintaining a broad validator set across the network.