What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening to Off the Chain, simply the best podcast in crypto. Let's kick this thing off.

Anatoly Yacavanko is the co-founder of Solana. In this conversation, we discuss underwater hockey, Iron Man Triathlons, self-custody of identity,

the current use cases for high-performance blockchains, the complexities around sharding, and where

we are with staking and validating.

I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you do as well.

Anthony Pompliano is a partner at Morgan Creek Digital.

All opinions expressed by Pomp or his guests on this podcast are solely their opinions

and do not reflect the opinions of Morgan Creek Digital or Morgan Creek Capital Management.

You should not treat any opinion expressed by Pomp as a specific inducement to make a particular investment or follow a particular strategy, but only as an expression of his opinion.

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All right, guys, bang, bang.

I'm here with Anatoly.

We got all kinds of cool stuff to talk about thank you so much for

coming on and doing this yeah thank you so much mom for sure you were coming all the way to

New York from San Francisco so pretty cool all right what's your background where where you come

from so born and raised in Ukraine but shout, shout out Ukraine.

Yeah, but grew up in Chicago, went to school in Urbana, Champagne.

I ended up in San Diego working in Qualcomm.

So my buddy and I lived in Salana Beach.

We would wake up, surf, bike to work, bike home, surf again.

Horrible like, man, from the streets of Ukraine to the beaches of California. Yeah, but, you know, those eight hours that we worked at Qualcomm, they were pretty awesome.

So we were building, like, you know, cutting edge mobile platforms.

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