157 - Will Solana Make It with Anatoly Yakovenko

✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the episode:
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In today’s episode, we have the creator of Solana and the Co-founder of Solana Labs, Anatoly Yakovenko. We brought on Anatoly to ask: is Solana going to make it?

Price is down. A major public backer…SBF is down for the count…will Solana make it? Will it survive the bear market? Anatoly shares his thoughts.

In addition, he also shares the full Solana story, back to its earliest inflection points all the way to the current state of Solana today.

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Topics Covered

0:00 Intro
7:58 2022 & 2023
10:05 Solana Origins
14:40 Passage of Time as Data
25:30 Bandwidth Trade-offs
29:29 SOL as Money?
32:04 Security
36:24 Continuing the Solana Story
44:10 Early Day Solana Vibes
48:20 Solana Growth Acceleration
51:31 2021 Solana Price
53:12 The Crypto VC Narrative
54:37 Solana Haters
59:55 FTX & SBF
1:07:16 Solana Critique
1:09:35 Cultural Debt
1:14:46 The State of the Solana Community
1:19:37 The Future of Solana
1:24:36 Solana VM
1:26:39 Will Solana Make It?
1:31:15 Final Solana Questions
Closing & Disclaimers

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Resources:

Anatoly
https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko

Firedancer
https://jumpcrypto.com/firedancer/

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