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Solana: From On-Chain Nasdaq to the Pump Fun Craze - Anatoly Yakovenko

March 15, 2025·1 hr 18 min·5 clips

Anatoly didn't expect NFTs or meme coins to take off, but they're now driving blockchain's most important use cases.

Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana, discusses the blockchain's evolution, unexpected trends like NFTs and meme coins, and key challenges such as MEV, scaling with multiple concurrent proposers, and security. He emphasizes the importance of fees for sustainability and outlines future goals to compete with traditional finance.

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A technical Solana conversation about markets, state, and the cost of crypto complexity.

Anatoly Yakovenko uses Solana to examine how modern crypto markets actually work: AMMs, MEV, validator competition, rollback risk, and the tension between shared-state systems and more modular designs.

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Listen if you want Solana debated as a systems problem, not a slogan.

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