Moonshots with Peter Diamandis Solana Founder: Crypto Is About to Change Finance Like the Internet Changed Everything Else w/ Anatoly Yakovenko, Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail & Alexander Wissner-Gross | EP #204
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Oct 30, 2025 
Anatoly Yakovenko, Co-founder and CEO of Solana Labs and former Qualcomm engineer, revolutionizes finance with his insights on blockchain. He dives into Solana's execution layer, showcasing its efficiency compared to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Discussion highlights how AI will foster new markets through public blockchains and the growing importance of stablecoins. He sheds light on decentralized finance as a means of reducing financial friction and envisions a future where AI agents transact on blockchains, redefining the landscape of digital economies.
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AI Lowers Cost To Create Markets
- Cheaper intelligence and AI reduce the cost to analyze signals and enable many more markets to exist profitably.
- Permissionless blockchains make it easy to create and coordinate those markets globally.
4am Eureka: Proof‑Of‑History Origin
- Anatoly described a 4am eureka after coffee and beer where he invented proof-of-history as a clock-like mechanism for blockchains.
- He compared it to TDMA in wireless to massively increase channel efficiency versus proof-of-work.
Co‑Locate Block Producers For Low Latency
- A perfect layer one minimizes latency by co-locating concurrent block producers near signal sources to ingest events quickly.
- This design treats global markets as synchronized channels, shifting from TDMA to concurrent producers (CDMA-like).
