Solana Developers Consider Removing Block Limits Post-Alpenglow Upgrade

Solana developers are weighing a new proposal to remove block limits once the network’s planned Alpenglow upgrade takes effect, a change aimed at expanding throughput by letting performance scale with validator hardware. Filed Friday as SIMD-0370, the proposal would scrap Solana’s current 60 million compute unit cap per block and instead allow block size to adjust dynamically, meaning blocks could expand to fit as many transactions as the fastest validators can handle, while smaller validators could simply skip voting on blocks that exceed their capacity.