Cryptography Research Platforms

Anza Research is the group inside Anza that works on Solana's protocol design next to the engineers who build the Agave client. Its researchers presented Alpenglow in May 2025, a consensus design that replaces TowerBFT and aims to make blocks final in about 150 milliseconds. Alpenglow is designed to keep running with 20% of stake acting maliciously and a further 20% offline at the same moment. Readers following post-quantum security will find the newer work most relevant: an April 2026 paper on securing Solana against a powerful quantum adversary, and Quantumglow in July 2026, which Anza calls a post-quantum adaptation of Alpenglow. Both are research papers with no date to ship, and Alpenglow itself had reached testnet and devnet but had no announced mainnet date as of 10 October 2026.

Jump Crypto publishes protocol research alongside its engineering work, covering market structure, hardware acceleration, decentralized storage pricing and cryptography. Its April 2026 paper on quantum migration paths for Solana concluded that quantum computers are not an immediate threat, but that preparation should begin at the protocol level. Other published work includes a Dual Flow Batch Auction analysis from August 2025 and research into PropAMM designs for decentralized exchanges. Protocol engineers and DeFi designers who want a high-frequency trading firm's reading of how on-chain markets and validator software should be built will get the most from the Jump Crypto research blog. This is research from a proprietary trading firm that makes markets on centralized exchanges and decentralized protocols, not from an academic body, so its market-structure papers are best read with that commercial position in mind.

Anagram publishes original protocol research on Solana, and its most detailed work covers how the network could move to signatures that resist quantum computers. In a June 2026 post, Tracy Adams and Austin Adams shared findings from a proof-of-concept built on the Agave validator client, covering key generation, Falcon signature verification, address derivation and transaction encoding. They argue for Falcon-512, whose signatures are 666 bytes against 3,309 bytes for ML-DSA-65. Core developers, validator operators and anyone tracking Solana's post-quantum migration will get the most from it, particularly because Anagram is sponsoring two related proposals, SIMD-0461 and SIMD-0296. The research is still a proof of concept and a set of proposals rather than a change live on the network, and Anagram does this work alongside running a validator and building products, not as a dedicated research lab.

Extropy publishes original blockchain research through its Medium publication and Extropy Academy, covering topics including cross-chain MEV market structure, quantum cryptography threats to Ethereum, and EIP protocol analyses. A notable 2024 to 2025 study examined arbitrage and MEV markets across Ethereum, Solana, Optimism and Base, and StarkNet, producing detailed findings on how power-law concentration, per-trade economics, and infrastructure costs differ across ecosystems. The firm also produces a weekly Extropy Security Bytes digest documenting significant security incidents across Web3. The firm's research capabilities are reinforced by a team with backgrounds in cryptography, formal verification, and embedded systems, and by its Oxford base near academic research in these fields. Extropy's consulting services include zero-knowledge system design, domain-specific language research, and protocol-level security reviews. This combination of published analysis and applied research positions Extropy as an independent research voice covering both theoretical cryptographic advances and the applied security challenges facing live blockchain protocols.

Walrus is built around RedStuff, a proprietary two-dimensional erasure coding scheme developed by Mysten Labs that encodes stored blobs into slivers distributed across independent storage nodes. The system achieves Byzantine fault tolerance guarantees, ensuring full data recovery even when two-thirds of storage nodes go offline or act maliciously, while requiring only 4–5× data replication overhead. All data stored on Walrus carries cryptographic proof of correctness, allowing anyone to independently verify data integrity without trusting the storage provider. A December 2025 technical paper on arXiv describes a hybrid Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and MPC architecture where TEE nodes run inside the validator network to strengthen cryptographic security guarantees beyond what standard MPC provides, addressing the challenge of secure private key management without centralized control.

Darklake Labs grounded its Solana privacy infrastructure in academic cryptography, publishing foundational research on the IACR ePrint Archive (eprint.iacr.org/2025/1802). The paper covered the one-sided encoding mechanism underlying Zyga, security proofs under standard cryptographic assumptions, and Solana performance benchmarks. The team maintained research partnerships with two Brazilian universities and held a patent application in process. The company combined zero-knowledge proofs with multi-party computation to achieve 99.9% MEV resistance in its dark pool mechanism, with no added latency. Tiago Alves, an active university professor, led the research program as Head of ZK Research. Darklake placed second in the Solana Radar Global Hackathon DeFi track and entered the Colosseum Accelerator before being acquired by SOL Strategies in April 2026.