157 - Will Solana Make It with Anatoly Yakovenko

✨ DEBRIEF | Unpacking the episode: https://shows.banklesshq.com/p/debrief-anatoly-solana  ------ ✨ COLLECTIBLES | Collect this episode: https://collectibles.bankless.com/mint  ------ 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. ------ 📣 MetaMask Learn https://bankless.cc/metamaskshow  ------ 🚀 JOIN BANKLESS PREMIUM: https://newsletter.banklesshq.com/subscribe  ------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: 🐙KRAKEN | MOST-TRUSTED CRYPTO EXCHANGE https://bankless.cc/kraken  🦄UNISWAP | ON-CHAIN MARKETPLACE https://bankless.cc/uniswap  ⚖️ ARBITRUM | SCALING ETHEREUM https://bankless.cc/Arbitrum  🚁 EARNIFI | CLAIM YOUR UNCLAIMED AIRDROPS https://bankless.cc/earnifi  ------ 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 ------ Resources: Anatoly https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko  Firedancer https://jumpcrypto.com/firedancer/  ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures