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OUT NOW: Solana's Founding Story | Anatoly Yakovenko

Nov 10, 2025 · 1:06

Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder and CEO of Solana, tells the story of how his eureka moment—a calculation showing Solana could achieve 1,000 to 10,000 times more throughput than Ethereum or Bitcoin—led to a manic four days and eventually to a blockchain that processes in a single month as many transactions as Ethereum does in its lifetime. He details the brutal fundraising process, requiring 1,000 meetings to secure the first major check, and the near-catastrophic moment during Solana's biggest conference (1,600 developers, sold out) when FTX collapsed on the flight back, threatening the entire ecosystem. The episode explores Anatoly's vision for decentralized finance beyond speculation and the challenges of building a truly open on-chain financial system.

How Solana Survived When Most Other Coins Fell | Anatoly Yakovenko Story

Nov 9, 2025 · 54:31

Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder and CEO of Solana, recounts how a eureka moment after two coffees and a beer led to encoding passage of time as a data structure, enabling 1,000 to 10,000 times more throughput than Ethereum or Bitcoin. He describes the grueling process of taking 1,000 meetings to secure funding, surviving the FTX collapse that wiped 97% of Solana's value, and how ecosystem teams like Backpack turned anger into momentum. Yakovenko explains that Solana now processes in a single month as many transactions as Ethereum’s entire lifetime, at fees under 0.2 cents. His long-term vision is a single on-chain system handling payments, trading, IPOs, and global finance atomically at the speed of light, reducing costs to the physics minimum. He predicts stablecoins will drive a 10x increase in digital dollars and that on-chain IPOs could democratize capital access for founders.

The Nas Daily Story

Aug 22, 2025 · 49:52

Nuseir Yassin, creator of Nas Daily and founder of Nas.io, explains how after 271 failed daily videos he finally broke through in Bangkok, then pivoted his entire content operation to AI—achieving 250 million views from 60 AI-generated videos. He argues that creators must stop building on social media 'quicksand' (only 3-5% of his 70 million follower revenue comes from platforms) and instead build real businesses. Nas.io, built with $10M+, lets anyone turn an idea into revenue within 24 hours using AI for design, ads, and customer acquisition. Yassin predicts the next big trend is internet capital markets—tokenizing ownership of real estate and companies so anyone globally can buy fractional shares. He also launched an entrepreneur fellowship giving 100 people $3,000 each to build businesses on the platform.