🏗️ THE STORY OF ANATOLY YAKOVENKO: THE CREATOR OF SOLANA WHO SAW HIS CREATION PLUMMET 97% AND REFUSED TO GIVE UP 🏗️
Anatoly Yakovenko, a former Qualcomm engineer, had an obsession: speed. He wanted to build a blockchain so fast that it could compete with Visa. Thus Solana was born.
During the boom of 2021, Solana was the star, dubbed the "Ethereum Killer".
But then, the collapse of FTX came. Solana's biggest backer, Sam Bankman-Fried, turned out to be a fraud. The narrative flipped overnight.
The price of Solana plummeted 97%. Critics declared it "dead". Developers fled. It seemed to be the end.
But Anatoly and his team kept building in silence. They endured the mockery, fixed the network bugs, and focused on the technology.
A year later, Solana not only survived but emerged stronger than ever, processing more transactions than almost all other chains combined.
