Whitepaper Reading: AlpenGlow (Solana)
Community Reading: AlpenGlow + (RealTime Blockchains)
AlpenGlow claims to crack the core trilemma: scalability, security, and decentralization which could alter how blockchains operate.
Votor - Achieves finality in one round with 80% participation, or two rounds with 60%. This could dramatically outpace current proof-of-stake systems.
Rotor - Uses erasure coding to distribute blocks across all nodes, potentially eliminating the leader bottleneck that limits most blockchain throughput.
"20+20" Resilience - Claims to handle 20% malicious actors and 20% offline nodes simultaneously—a robust security model if it works.
The Question: does this scale globally in practice, or only in theory?
Join us to analyze the technical claims, identify potential issues, and explore the implications for decentralized systems.
We will also dive into Real-Time Blockchains towards the end of the discussion and make a comparison.
Links
Summary: https://bit.ly/WPRC_Analysis
AlpenGlow Paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y_7ddr8oNOknTQYHzXeeMD2ProQ0WjMs/view
Real-Time Blockchains: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02650 + https://www.megaeth.com/research
Session Details
📆 Date: 24 June 2025 (Tuesday)
🕑 Time: 6:30PM - 9PM
📌 Venue: 28 Stanley Street 04-10 (Libeara Office)
Session Format:
Round table discussions: Anyone can ask questions.
Summaries: We create summaries to help everyone understand.
This is NOT sponsored
LightFood + Drinks
About Whitepaper Reading Club
The Whitepaper Reading Club is a community of 500 passionate engineers, founders, core-devs, students, researchers, across Singapore, Malaysia and Bangkok who come together every month to read and discuss blockchain papers (website).
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We create detailed and easy to understand summaries for each paper (summaries) and have held 30+ sessions since June 2023, covering topics from Account Abstraction, Parallel Chains, EIPs, Bitcoin Ecosystem to AIXCrypto. We are ecosystem-agnostic, not for profit and with a strong focus on projects with technical, product or social innovations.