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How Solana Plans to Build Financial Infrastructure for 5.5 Billion People

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4.8689 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Finance for everyone with Solana Foundation President Lily Liu. Solana Foundation President Lily Liu sits down with CoinDesk from Breakpoint in Abu Dhabi to discuss the future of the ecosystem. Reflecting on this year's event, she reveals why Solana's focus on shipping products and unifying liquidity is essential for building the financial infrastructure for billions of people. - This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie and Marissa Trew.

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0:00.0

In order for crypto to be successful, you have to build a positive community.

0:05.0

And so actually one of the inputs into that is the ability to find and to play positive some games.

0:13.0

Even purely from Solana's long-term interests, I would say, well, if Solana is looking to be that financial infrastructure for five and a half billion people on all of their assets.

0:22.6

And we can't figure out how to work with other people in crypto.

0:25.6

How are we going to move beyond that?

0:31.6

Hey everyone, welcome back to CoinDesk Live.

0:34.6

We are coming to from Solana Breakpoint in Awoodavi.

0:38.3

This is Salana's flagship conference. So no better guest to have here at the desk than Salana Foundation President Lily Lou.

0:46.3

Hey, Lily.

0:47.3

Hi. It's good to see you in person.

0:48.3

Yeah, great to see you in person as well. How has the event been for you so far?

0:53.3

We are getting better every year and this year has been incredible.

0:58.6

Absolutely incredible.

1:00.0

It's our largest breakpoint ever.

1:02.0

We didn't just get a venue, we got a stadium, and it is, the content is incredible, the audience is electric, and we also have just this wonderful

1:13.2

experience throughout the arena.

1:15.6

So breakpoint famously slashed panels and went for lightning talks and basically the rapid

1:20.3

delivery of information.

1:21.7

So how has that, like how have those conversations kind of evolved from breakpoint to breakpoint?

1:26.9

Yeah.

1:27.3

So I think that that format really reflects what our values are as an ecosystem.

1:32.3

We've always come at this as we ship products for users.

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