Solana developers are considering a proposal to lift the current 60 million compute unit cap per block following the Alpenglow upgrade, aiming to boost network throughput by allowing block sizes to scale with validator hardware capacity.

The SIMD-0370 initiative from the Firedancer team at Jump Crypto would let powerful nodes process more transactions, while smaller ones could skip overly large blocks. This could speed up the network but also raises concerns about centralization and the risk of smaller validators being pushed out.

The Alpenglow upgrade, expected by year-end, is already set to cut block finality to 150 milliseconds and introduce the skip-vote feature. The Firedancer proposal builds on this, shifting Solana’s scalability from fixed limits to hardware capabilities.