Anatoly Yakovenko’s vision for a high-performance blockchain By Cointelegraph

“I literally had two coffees and a beer, and I had this eureka moment at four in the morning,” co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko recalls as he leans back thoughtfully.

Speaking to Cointelegraph at Solana’s annual Breakpoint conference in Amsterdam, the co-founder recounts a late-night brainwave of a “hyper-optimized, fast as possible” smart contract blockchain protocol.

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