Anza
@anza_xyz
Anza engineers Solana, shipping the software that pushes the boundaries of blockchain performance and scale.
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🚨 Mainnet-beta validators: URGENT UPGRADE to Agave 4.4.1 is recommended or you will be forked off.
It applies a minimum loaded data size to loader-v3 ProgramData accounts. Nodes without the patch are planned to fork off at epoch 1079, Nov 6 at ~13:30 UTC. Upgrade now and monitor your node.
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Can you beat Solana? 👀
Block finality: ~150 ms
Your reflexes: ?
Try it 👇
Life is better with Solana Subscriptions.
Solana has no single document that sets out its protocol rules. They are spread across years of improvement proposals (SIMDs) and the code of its validator clients.
@anza_xyz's Brennan Watt (@bw_solana) has proposed one living Solana protocol spec instead: each change becomes a pull request against it, merged only when the change goes live on Mainnet.
He has already posted an 18-chapter draft. It is a proposal for feedback; nothing has been adopted.
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🚨 Mainnet-beta validators: Agave v4.4.0 is recommended for general adoption. Upgrade now.
Solana is now live on @0xPolygon’s Open Money Stack.
Bank rails, wallets and conversion, connected to Solana through one integration. Businesses build where their customers already are.
Agave is coming to your inbox. Or your agent’s.
Releases, feature gate activations, upgrade timelines, and breaking changes. Sent when there’s something to act on.
This is not a marketing newsletter.
Pick your roles and you only get what applies.
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Has it already been a week? Finality time flies 🏔️
Alpenglow has been live for one week 🏔️ 🏔️ 🏔️
@Ashwinningg shares the full story on where the idea came from, how it got built and what @anza_xyz is thinking about next (and a little bit about Ashwin too!)
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YC builders building on Solana receive $50k + support from @SolanaFndn
Apply to YC by November 2:
🚨 Mainnet-beta validators: we're looking for volunteers to bring 20% of stake to Agave v4.4.0-rc.1 by EOD Friday, Oct 30 per routine upgrade procedure.
File a ghsa! Solana has a super generous bug bounty program. Up to 25k sol
We’re decoupling cargo-build-sbf from the Solana CLI so updates ship on their own schedule, not Agave’s.
cargo-build-sbf v4.5.0 is out today. It now warns when a stale copy on your PATH is shadowing the one cargo installed.
➡️ cargo install cargo-build-sbf
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FYI cargo-build-sbf isn't going to ship with the solana CLI anymore.
Devs should get used to managing it with `cargo install`.
Watch the full interview with @IOV_OWL
Faster than the blink of an eye. 150 millisecond finality on Solana.
“That’s faster than the blink of an eye. It means a lightning-fast checkout experience, which is a true differentiator for retailers and financial products."
"By making things faster and easier for developers, we get more shots on goal and more chances for entrepreneurs to find PMF.”
@bw_solana @anza_xyz @Genfinity
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🚨 Mainnet-beta validators: we're looking for volunteers to bring 10% of stake to Agave v4.4.0-rc.1 by EOD Friday, Oct 30 per routine upgrade procedure.
I just interviewed the team behind the largest consensus upgrade in the history of Solana.
150ms finality is wild. @anza_xyz @bw_solana
Technology can be copied. Users, onchain assets, and economic activity cannot. @bw_solana on the narrowing window for new L1s and what we’re building next after Alpenglow.
What comes after the largest upgrade in Solana history?
With Solana now targeting 150ms transaction finality, we interviewed Brennan Watt, CEO of Anza, on the next phase of network development and the demands of internet capital markets at scale.
The next performance frontier:
Anza is developing faster block distribution, greater transaction capacity, and geographically aware consensus to reduce latency across Solana's global validator network.
Internet capital markets:
How near-instant settlement, micropayments, and autonomous AI agents could reshape financial markets and enable an economy where value moves as quickly as information.
Solana's competitive moat:
Watt believes the window for launching new Layer 1 networks is narrowing. His argument: Technology can be replicated, but established users, onchain assets, and economic activity are much harder to reproduce.
@bw_solana | @solana | @anza_xyz
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If there's anyone that is interested in migrating to Solana, my DMs are open.
It doesn't matter if you're a L1, L2, or app on a dying blockchain.
Reach out. Solana can support your app.
hey @solana_devs off-chain message signing is live. check it out:
