"We didn't want another blockchain. We wanted the future at lightning speed."
— Anatoly Yakovenko, creator of Solana
In the world of cryptocurrencies, the pace of innovation was slow. The most popular blockchains were like a highway with heavy traffic 🚗, where each transaction was a car paying a high toll and moving with difficulty. The system worked, but it could not scale at the pace the world needed.
That's where Solana came in. Its creator, Anatoly Yakovenko, did not settle for improving the system but reinvented it. His big idea was not just to create another chain, but to design a new type of technology that could process thousands of transactions per second at an almost negligible cost. ⚡