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Anza is the Solana-focused software development firm, building resilient, elegant, and impactful protocols. Founded by a group of executives and core engineers from Solana Labs, Anza is building a next-generation, Solana-focused dev shop. It will build a forked version of the Solana Labs validator client called Agave, as well as contribute to other major protocols within the Solana ecosystem.
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Anza, Core Development Team of Solana: Recommends Solana Mainnet Validators to Use Agave 4.0
Anza, a core Solana development team, announced that it has recommended Solana mainnet validators upgrade to Agave 4.0. This release includes XDP for Turbine, TPU transaction ingestion exclusively over QUIC, faster replay stages, and a suite of feature-gated SIMD instructions set to activate during this cycle. Production environment results from large mainnet validators show Turbine retransmission latency has dropped from 600 ms to approximately 0.8 ms. Additionally, UDP-based transaction ingestion has been removed, making QUIC the sole transaction submission method; simple vote transactions now follow the same cost model as regular transactions. Features including p-token, Stake Program v5, SBPFv3 program support, pre-funded account creation, and BLS12-381 system calls will also be enabled during the 4.0 cycle.
Solana Consensus Upgrade Alpenglow Enters Community Testing Phase
: Solana core development team Anza announced that a major consensus mechanism upgrade, codenamed Alpenglow, has been launched on the community testnet. Validators can now switch from the current Proof-of-Stake, Proof-of-History, and TowerBFT architecture to the new consensus framework within the test cluster.The upgrade shortens transaction finality time and improves network response efficiency by restructuring the validator communication and block confirmation process. This testing phase marks that validators can now execute the Alpenswitch migration operation in a real-world environment. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko previously stated that if testing goes smoothly, Alpenglow could be deployed to the mainnet as early as next quarter. (CoinDesk)
Solana Developers Unveil Quantum Resistance Plan, Proposing Integration of Falcon Digital Signature Scheme
: The Solana Foundation has announced that its core development team, Anza, has reached an agreement with Jump Crypto's Firedancer on a potential post-quantum solution, planning to introduce a new digital signature scheme called Falcon. Although the threat of quantum computing is not expected to materialize for several years, Solana has already developed a phased upgrade roadmap. The plan includes ongoing research into Falcon and other alternatives, introducing post-quantum schemes for new wallets when necessary, and ultimately completing the migration of existing wallets. Currently, the quantum-resistant primitive Winternitz Vault, developed by Blueshift, has been operating on Solana for over two years. The Solana Foundation stated that the network's high-speed, low-latency design is compatible with such solutions and expects the migration will not significantly impact performance.
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The Solana-related SIMD proposal is expected to be finalized within this year, potentially increasing the inflation decay rate to 30%.
Anza CEO Brennan Watt stated that Solana-related SIMD proposals are expected to be finalized this year. Among them, SIMD-123 has already been approved and is nearing code completion; the discussion draft for SIMD-547 is substantively aligned with SIMD-553, and both SIMD-553 and SIMD-550 have received concept ACKs from Anza. If SIMD-550 and SIMD-553 are implemented jointly, the annual SOL inflation reduction rate would increase from 15% to 30%, reducing token emissions by approximately $1.36 billion over six years under current price assumptions. Additionally, daily SOL burn volume would rise from roughly 650 tokens (approximately $47,000) to a maximum of approximately 9,000 tokens (approximately $646,000).
Anza, Core Development Team of Solana: Recommends Solana Mainnet Validators to Use Agave 4.0
Anza, a core Solana development team, announced that it has recommended Solana mainnet validators upgrade to Agave 4.0. This release includes XDP for Turbine, TPU transaction ingestion exclusively over QUIC, faster replay stages, and a suite of feature-gated SIMD instructions set to activate during this cycle. Production environment results from large mainnet validators show Turbine retransmission latency has dropped from 600 ms to approximately 0.8 ms. Additionally, UDP-based transaction ingestion has been removed, making QUIC the sole transaction submission method; simple vote transactions now follow the same cost model as regular transactions. Features including p-token, Stake Program v5, SBPFv3 program support, pre-funded account creation, and BLS12-381 system calls will also be enabled during the 4.0 cycle.
Solana Consensus Upgrade Alpenglow Enters Community Testing Phase
: Solana core development team Anza announced that a major consensus mechanism upgrade, codenamed Alpenglow, has been launched on the community testnet. Validators can now switch from the current Proof-of-Stake, Proof-of-History, and TowerBFT architecture to the new consensus framework within the test cluster.The upgrade shortens transaction finality time and improves network response efficiency by restructuring the validator communication and block confirmation process. This testing phase marks that validators can now execute the Alpenswitch migration operation in a real-world environment. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko previously stated that if testing goes smoothly, Alpenglow could be deployed to the mainnet as early as next quarter. (CoinDesk)
Solana Developers Unveil Quantum Resistance Plan, Proposing Integration of Falcon Digital Signature Scheme
: The Solana Foundation has announced that its core development team, Anza, has reached an agreement with Jump Crypto's Firedancer on a potential post-quantum solution, planning to introduce a new digital signature scheme called Falcon. Although the threat of quantum computing is not expected to materialize for several years, Solana has already developed a phased upgrade roadmap. The plan includes ongoing research into Falcon and other alternatives, introducing post-quantum schemes for new wallets when necessary, and ultimately completing the migration of existing wallets. Currently, the quantum-resistant primitive Winternitz Vault, developed by Blueshift, has been operating on Solana for over two years. The Solana Foundation stated that the network's high-speed, low-latency design is compatible with such solutions and expects the migration will not significantly impact performance.