Gate News Bot message, January 05, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, SOL (Solana) is trading at $136.82, up 2.32% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $137.35 and a low of $122.43. The 24-hour trading volume reached $3.359 billion. The current market capitalization is approximately $77.067 billion, an increase of $1.749 billion compared to yesterday. ## Important recent news about SOL: 1️⃣ **Major upgrade to the consensus mechanism drives leapfrog network performance improvements** Solana plans to roll out the "Alpenglow" consensus upgrade in phases from early to mid-2026. This upgrade will fundamentally reconstruct the existing Tower BFT and historical proof mechanisms. The new architecture introduces the Votor component, which adopts a lightweight voting aggregation model, allowing block

CyrusOne confirmed that its Illinois data center caused a CME Group market outage for over 10 hours due to human error. The cooling system was overloaded and temperatures rose because the cooling tower was not properly drained before cold weather, as required by procedure. This incident has raised concerns about the reliability of financial market infrastructure.

Odaily Planet Daily news: According to market sources, Bitcoin treasury company Strategy has placed a massive STRC advertisement on the Nasdaq Tower in Times Square, New York.