Learn more about the Solana Labs to Agave fork

This is a quick post written for the Solana Discord server to provide further details around the upcoming Solana Labs fork.

This weekend (Saturday, March 2nd)we forked the Solana Labs validator software into a repo managed by the Anza team located here. Please see our X post here and FAQ here.

If you are not familiar with Anza, we are a new dev shop within the Solana ecosystem consisting of former executives and core engineers from Solana Labs. One of our objectives is to build a forked Solana Labs validator client which will be called “Agave,” as well as contribute to other major protocols within the Solana ecosystem. Our announcement provides further background.

Our objective in forking the client will be to separate future contributions by the Anza team from the previous work at Solana Labs. This is part of our process to support the Firedancer client being developed by Jump Crypto, build dev tools and provide further engineering support to the broader Solana developer ecosystem.

Anza will be joining the Solana Validator Community Call (March 14th at 11am PST) and the Solana Foundation Core Community Call March 13th to answer questions on this topic live. Please feel free to follow our new DevRel lead, Rex St. John, who will be active across various forums to answer any questions you may have. Finally, follow Anza on X to stay updated for future announcements: https://twitter.com/anza_xyz