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Inside Solana's Plan to Replace Wall Street | Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana
Anatoly Yakovenko is the co-founder of Solana, the fastest scaled blockchain in the world.
We start by talking about how non-US residents were trading SpaceX on Solana pre-IPO, and which parlayed into the last 130 years of US financial markets.
We then get into how Solana is removing eight layers of middlemen that make-up the legacy financial system, whether you actually need to use blockchain to do this, the 4am inspiration to start Solana, how Solana was 10,000x faster than Bitcoin, why a16z passed on investing then paid a 1,000x higher price, how launching Solana at the bottom of the…
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