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Special: Solana (with CEO Anatoly Yakovenko)

2021/7/19
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Anatoly Yakovenko 详细阐述了 Solana 项目的创立背景、融资历程以及技术创新。他指出，Solana 项目诞生于 2017-2018 年的加密寒冬，早期融资困难重重，但团队坚持专注于技术研发和产品交付，最终获得了成功。Solana 的核心技术创新在于其“历史证明”机制，该机制通过预先安排时间块来提高交易吞吐量，解决了传统区块链系统可扩展性差的问题。Solana 的目标是构建一个快速、高效、抗审查的全球信息网络，而非仅仅作为一种价值存储工具。他认为 Solana 的技术优势在于其极高的交易吞吐量，能够支持数十万甚至数百万的交易，这使其成为构建去中心化金融应用（DeFi）和各种其他去中心化应用的理想平台。Anatoly Yakovenko 还谈到了 Solana 生态系统的建设，以及如何吸引开发者和用户参与。他强调了验证者社区在 Solana 项目早期发展中的重要作用，以及如何通过提供独特的价值来吸引开发者和用户。他认为 Solana 和以太坊等其他区块链可以共存，并通过良性竞争促进整个加密货币领域的进步。最后，Anatoly Yakovenko 对 Solana 的未来发展进行了展望，他认为 Solana 生态系统将拥有庞大的工程师和验证者社区，并形成一个去中心化的发展模式，最终成为一个像 Android 那样庞大的生态系统。 Ben Gilbert 和 David Rosenthal 作为主持人，引导 Anatoly Yakovenko 讲述了 Solana 的发展历程、技术特点以及与其他区块链项目的比较。他们对 Solana 的高交易吞吐量、抗审查性以及去中心化特性表示了赞赏，并就 Solana 的技术细节、应用场景以及未来发展方向与 Anatoly Yakovenko 展开了深入探讨。他们还探讨了 Solana 与以太坊等其他区块链项目的关系，以及 Solana 如何在竞争激烈的市场中脱颖而出。

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Anatoly Yakovenko's experience at Qualcomm, working on Brew, the first mobile app store OS, gave him a deep understanding of optimization. During the 2017-18 crypto winter, he saw an opportunity to improve crypto scalability. He assembled a team of experienced engineers from Qualcomm and, despite initial funding challenges, focused on building Solana, prioritizing shipping over fundraising.
  • Solana was born out of the 2017-18 crypto winter.
  • Early funding challenges forced the team to focus on building and shipping.
  • Initial support came from a community of validators (miners) who became early adopters and customers.

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We sit down with the hottest new protocol layer in crypto today: Solana, and its cofounder Anatoly Yakovenko, who is the CEO of Solana Labs. If you listened to our Ethereum episode or follow crypto even at a cursory level, you've likely heard of Solana and its ability to scale transactions thousands of times higher than Ethereum. And, unlike other so-called "ETH killers", Solana is doing so in production today with large and real applications. We dive into the project's history coming out of the 2017-18 crypto winter, how it works and what's ahead now that they've recently raised $314m (yes that is Pi $million) from a16z and Polychain Capital, with their native SOL tokens currently trading at a market cap around $10B (!). 

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Topics covered:

  • Anatoly's background as a wireless engineer at Qualcomm, and how it led to a fundamental discovery of how to improve crypto system scalability
  • Solana's role in the crypto protocol ecosystem and why there's a need for it (and why it can and will exist) alongside Ethereum versus "killing" it
  • Starting Solana during the 2017-18 crypto winter, and how it forced them to focus just on building and shipping versus raising and posturing
  • Bootstrapping adoption with the mining community (Solana's "true believers") and the early and ardent support they provided
  • Where Solana falls on the Vitalik "Scalability - Security - Decentralization" trilemma, and why Solana's superpower of maintaining composability is so attractive

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