Meet Anza, the Engineering Company Behind Solana’s Biggest Upgrade Yet: Alpenglow

HIGHLIGHTS Anza develops core infrastructure for Solana, including its Agave validator client. Alpenglow went live on Solana on October 21, targeting transaction finality of around 150 milliseconds. Beyond Alpenglow, Anza is exploring network improvements through Rotor and post-quantum security research through Quantumglow. When one of the leading blockchains in Web3 rolls out one of its most significant upgrades, attention inevitably turns to the technology behind it. While Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade is attracting attention for its ambition to bring transaction finality down to 150 milliseconds, the company responsible for building it has a story of its own.