Anza
Summary
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
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Timeline(11 events)
2023-06-20
Anza Technology, Inc. incorporated in Delaware, approximately two weeks after the SEC argued SOL was an unregistered security in the Coinbase lawsuit.
Fortune2024-01-30
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 Block2024-02-06
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 report2024-03-02
Anza forks Solana Labs validator codebase and officially establishes the Agave repository at github.com/anza-xyz/agave.
Solana.com / Anza X announcement2024-11-01
Agave 2.0 released, introducing streamlined compute unit pricing for loaded accounts.
GitHub / Helius blog2024-12-09
Ethereum researcher Max Resnick joins Anza from Consensys, citing dissatisfaction with Ethereum's layer-2 scaling direction.
The Block2024-12-24
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 News2025-05-19
Anza publishes Alpenglow whitepaper (v1.0), proposing replacement of Proof of History and TowerBFT with Votor and Rotor, targeting ~150ms finality.
Anza blog / CoinDesk2025-09-02
SIMD-0326 (Alpenglow) passes Solana community governance vote with 98.27% approval on 52% stake participation.
CoinDesk / Solana Status X post2025-12-01
Jump Crypto's Firedancer validator client launches on Solana mainnet, representing the first fully independent (non-Agave-derived) client in production.
The Block2026-01-01
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 and source URLs are archived via the Internet Archive.
model: claude-code-investigator
generated: 5/31/2026, 8:21:00 PM
last updated: 6/1/2026, 3:12:27 AM
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