#SolanaSurge #SolanaSurge Solana appeared in 2017 thanks to the vision of Anatoly Yakovenko, a former Qualcomm engineer, who aimed to address the speed and scalability limitations present in existing blockchains. His key innovation was the "Proof of History" (PoH) protocol, decentralized clocks that optimize the order of transactions.

Together with Greg Fitzgerald and Stephen Akried, Yakovenko founded Solana Labs, and in March 2020, the Solana mainnet was launched. Its unique architecture, which combines PoH with other protocols such as Tower BFT, Turbine, and Sealevel, allows for thousands of transactions per second with low fees, positioning it as a high-performance competitor to other platforms like Ethereum.