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Anatoly Yakovenko

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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

You haven't solved anything, because you have the same number of houses, no matter how you move the numbers around.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

Some more people, fewer houses, somebody's screwed.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

You haven't solved affordability unless you build stuff.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

But that requires kind of that's ultimately up to the people.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

I think there's enough smart people that kind of push back and stuff that I think ultimately things work out.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

I think

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

Neither side, like even the worst administration like Gensler and Warren and all this stuff during the last four years had no meaningful impact on crypto adoption slowing down.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

Like I think Stablecoin growth went like 5x or something like that during those four years.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

And this is because a lot of the adoption is happening outside of the U.S.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

and because they don't have these trusted financial systems that can guarantee that when I send you money, you actually receive it, especially across border like Argentina to China.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

Who are you going to trust?

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

Right.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

If you go through the traditional finance channels that are trusted, you're paying a lot and it takes 14 days, like 10 plus days to settle like that.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

It's just

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

business people that need to get products and services shipped immediately to sell them will use the rails that work and crypto actually works and it and it removes all all those intermediaries and removes a whole bunch of failure cases so you're not going to be able to stop that from United States no matter what the next administration tries to do so from my perspective I think kind of

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

It doesn't really matter, I think, who's in charge.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

It matters for founders.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

Founders will just move offshore where they don't have to deal with the hassle of paying the lawyers and figuring out all of the stuff.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

They'll just move to Singapore or some other place like they did during those four years.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
How Solana’s Founder Sees Crypto Transforming Global Finance, AI Innovation, and American Opportunity | Anatoly Yakovenko Pt 2

But I think in terms of products and real adoption, not much will change.