FYI - For Your Innovation Solana’s Vision For A Decentralized Future With Anatoly Yakovenko
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Oct 30, 2025 
Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana and architect of its high-performance blockchain, dives into Solana's intriguing origin and its vision of a decentralized future. He discusses revolutionary concepts like Proof of History and the Firedancer client, which enhance network efficiency. The conversation highlights the importance of execution over simple transaction settlement, comparing Solana's capabilities to centralized giants like NASDAQ. Anatoly also shares insights on scalability, tokenomics, and the future role of decentralization in global finance.
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Solana's Origin In A Late-Night Eureka
- Anatoly described his 2017 eureka moment about measuring time instead of electricity to secure consensus.
- He used a late-night Cafe Soleil insight while mining GPUs to fund deep learning hardware as the origin story for Solana.
Time-Based Coordination Scales Bandwidth
- Proof of History prevents proposer collisions by creating a global cryptographic clock so nodes can take turns without pre-agreement.
- Removing collisions lets the network use nearly 100% of available bandwidth and massively increase throughput.
PoH May Be Temporary Innovation
- Anatoly noted researchers found newer consensus approaches that replicate PoH guarantees without the cryptographic lock.
- He expects Proof of History may disappear next year as better algorithms replace it.