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Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

Solana Founder: Crypto Is About to Change Finance Like the Internet Changed Everything Else w/ Anatoly Yakovenko, Dave Blundin, Salim Ismail & Alexander Wissner-Gross | EP #204

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

PHD Ventures

Business

4.8607 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diamandis.com/metatrends   Anatoly Yakovenko is Co-founder at Solana Dave Blundin is the founder & GP of Link Ventures Salim Ismail is the founder of OpenExO Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross is a computer scientist and founder of Reified – My companies: Apply to Dave's and my new fund:https://qr.diamandis.com/linkventureslanding      Go to Blitzy to book a free demo and start building today: https://qr.diamandis.com/blitzy   Grab dinner with MOONSHOT listeners: https://moonshots.dnnr.io/ _ Connect with Peter: X Instagram Connect with Dave: X LinkedIn Connect with Salim: X Join Salim's Workshop to build your ExO  Connect with Alex Website LinkedIn X Email Connect with Antoly X  Linkedin Listen to MOONSHOTS: Apple YouTube – *Recorded on October 21, 2025 *The views expressed by me and all guests are personal opinions and do not constitute Financial, Medical, or Legal advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The fact that we now have stable cone legislation and that people are projecting like one trillion to ten trillion worth of digital dollars being minted over the next, you know, five years is going to massively accelerate things.

0:13.0

Why does your company exist? And second, why we need it.

0:17.3

Solana's there to really enable that one billion people to go fully interconnected. Bitcoin is store value.

0:22.6

Ethereum is settlement in Solano's execution.

0:24.6

I just simply wasn't interested in settlement or store value because they're not the kind of engineering problem that I'm interested in solving.

0:33.6

So is that the future a single machine layer for all markets everywhere?

0:40.0

There's no computer science academic reason why it can't exist. It's purely an engineering

0:45.0

problem and we're on our way to solve it like as fast as we can.

0:48.7

How long before this science fiction future could come into existence? My gut is that, uh,

0:55.0

now that's a moonshot, ladies and gentlemen.

1:01.0

Everybody, welcome to Moonshot.

1:03.0

To hear my Moonshot mate, Dave Lundon.

1:05.0

Hey, Dave.

1:06.0

Hey.

1:07.0

Alex Weisner Gross.

1:08.0

Hey, Peter.

1:10.0

And Salim Ismail.

1:11.7

And we have a special guest today.

1:13.6

We're going to be diving into Solana.

1:16.4

Anatoly Yaakovenko is here.

1:19.1

Software engineer, entrepreneur, co-founder, and CEO of Solana Labs, which today is the sixth largest coin.

1:25.8

Now worth over $100 billion.

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