Anza
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Anza (Anza Technology, Inc.) is a Delaware-incorporated software development firm founded in January 2024 by approximately 45 former Solana Labs engineers and executives, including Solana co-founder Stephen Akridge. The company serves as the primary maintainer of the Agave validator client — a fork of the original Solana Labs codebase and the majority client on the Solana network — and has proposed Alpenglow, a wholesale redesign of Solana's consensus mechanism approved by governance in September 2025. Anza has no token of its own; risk considerations center on its outsized influence over Solana's core protocol, the regulatory context of its formation, and a personal civil lawsuit involving co-founder Stephen Akridge.
Connected Entities
7 entities · 60 linked investigations- Ethereum→mentioned with→Coinbase(60%)
- Solana→mentioned with→Pump.fun / Solana Labs / Jito Labs — RICO MEV Class Action (SDNY 2026)(80%)
- Anza→mentioned with→Pump.fun / Solana Labs / Jito Labs — RICO MEV Class Action (SDNY 2026)(90%)
- Anza→mentioned with→Agave(70%)
- Anza→mentioned with→Coinbase(65%)
- Anza→mentioned with→Firedancer(75%)
- Anza→mentioned with→Ethereum(70%)
- Anza→mentioned with→Solana(80%)
- Solana→mentioned with→Coinbase(70%)
- Firedancer→mentioned with→Solana(80%)
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Timeline(11 events)
20 June 2023
Anza Technology, Inc. incorporated in Delaware, approximately two weeks after the SEC argued SOL was an unregistered security in the Coinbase lawsuit.
Fortune30 January 2024
Anza publicly announced by CEO Jeff Washington; approximately 45 former Solana Labs employees join the new entity. Agave validator client previewed.
Anza official blog / The Block6 February 2024
Solana Mainnet Beta outage lasting approximately five hours, caused by a JIT compilation cache bug in Agave v1.17 affecting over 95% of cluster stake, requiring coordinated restart.
Solana.com outage report2 March 2024
Anza forks Solana Labs validator codebase and officially establishes the Agave repository at github.com/anza-xyz/agave.
Solana.com / Anza X announcementNovember 2024
Agave 2.0 released, introducing streamlined compute unit pricing for loaded accounts.
GitHub / Helius blog9 December 2024
Ethereum researcher Max Resnick joins Anza from Consensys, citing dissatisfaction with Ethereum's layer-2 scaling direction.
The Block24 December 2024
Elisa Rossi files civil lawsuit against Anza co-founder Stephen Akridge in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging he secretly retained millions in SOL staking rewards from her accounts during their divorce.
DL News19 May 2025
Anza publishes Alpenglow whitepaper (v1.0), proposing replacement of Proof of History and TowerBFT with Votor and Rotor, targeting ~150ms finality.
Anza blog / CoinDesk2 September 2025
SIMD-0326 (Alpenglow) passes Solana community governance vote with 98.27% approval on 52% stake participation.
CoinDesk / Solana Status X postDecember 2025
Jump Crypto's Firedancer validator client launches on Solana mainnet, representing the first fully independent (non-Agave-derived) client in production.
The Block2026
Alpenglow available on Agave master branch for private cluster testing; not yet activated on production clusters.
Alchemy / CoinDesk reportingDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (4 decisions). 20 of 24 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-code-investigator
generated: 5/31/2026, 8:21:00 PM
last updated: 5/31/2026, 8:21:00 PM
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