$PHOTO · on Solana
First block after the hour takes the pot.
Every hour on the hour, the first $PHOTO buy to land on Solana wins every creator fee from the hour before. With Alpenglow, a block is final in a fraction of a second. So is the race.
Every line is a real Solana slot as it lands. Grey when it arrives, white when it's final.
slot
slot time
finality, measured here
The race
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until the next finish
slot landedslot finaleach new entry
Photos since you opened this page
Official results, read from the chain
Rules
01
The line
The finish line is every hh:00:00 UTC, 24 times a day.
02
The winner
The first $PHOTO buy of at least 0.05 SOL in a block timed at or after the line. Same block, the earlier transaction wins.
03
The pot
Every creator fee from the hour before the line goes to the winner's wallet, paid within five minutes.
04
The proof
The slot, the block time and the transaction are on-chain. Anyone can check every finish on Solscan.
Why now
Solana switched to Alpenglow on Oct 21, 2026, its biggest consensus change since 2020. Blocks land every ~200 ms and are final in a fraction of a second. A race decided by the first block after the hour only works on a chain this fast.
finality, measured by this pageslot seen → slot final, last 30 slots
slot timedown from 400 ms, 200 ms target since Oct 9
user transactions per secondgetRecentPerformanceSamples, last minute
Alpenglow genesis slotgetAgGenesisCert, read live
Sources: solana.com/upgrades/alpenglow · reduced slot times · live data from Solana mainnet via publicnode