Anza is a blockchain infrastructure firm that was spun out of Solana Labs and is responsible for developing Solana's validator client and advancing core protocol innovations.

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Anza is also the team maintaining Solana’s Agave client, the network's original validator software.

Anza, the developer studio spun out of Solana Labs, has unveiled what it calls ‘the biggest change to Solana’s core protocol’ ever. According to an announcement, the high-throughput Layer 1 is getting a completely redesigned undercarriage called Alpenglow.

Anza, a Solana blockchain infrastructure firm spun out of Solana Labs, has proposed a new proof-of-stake consensus called Alpenglow that it claims would be ‘the biggest change to Solana’s core protocol’ and compete with current internet infrastructure.