# 157 - Will Solana Make It with Anatoly Yakovenko

*Author: Ryan Sean Adams, David Hoffman*
*Published: Feb 6, 2023*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/es/157-will-solana-make-it-with-anatoly-yakovenko*

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In today’s episode, we have the creator of Solana and the Co-founder of Solana Labs, **Anatoly Yakovenko**. We brought on Anatoly to ask: is Solana going to make it?

Price is down. A major public backer…SBF is down for the count…will Solana make it? Will it survive the bear market? Anatoly shares his thoughts.

In addition, he also shares the full Solana story, back to its earliest inflection points all the way to the current state of Solana today.

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### TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro

7:58 2022 & 2023

10:05 Solana Origins

14:40 Passage of Time as Data

25:30 Bandwidth Trade-offs

29:29 SOL as Money?

32:04 Security

36:24 Continuing the Solana Story

44:10 Early Day Solana Vibes

48:20 Solana Growth Acceleration 

51:31 2021 Solana Price

53:12 The Crypto VC Narrative

54:37 Solana Haters

59:55 FTX & SBF 

1:07:16 Solana Critique

1:09:35 Cultural Debt

1:14:46 The State of the Solana Community

1:19:37 The Future of Solana

1:24:36 Solana VM

1:26:39 Will Solana Make It?

1:31:15 Final Solana Questions

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#### RESOURCES
Anatoly

[https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko](https://twitter.com/aeyakovenko)

Firedancer

[https://jumpcrypto.com/firedancer/](https://jumpcrypto.com/firedancer/)