Anatoly Yakovenko

12 statements across 2 episodes · 8 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 9, 2021 by Jason Calacanis · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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Oct 9, 2021 positive
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JCal: Solana paid corporate tax on its $300M-$400M token sale
“When they sold their three or four hundred million tokens to fund the company, because they consider them utility tokens, not shares, they paid taxes on it.”
Jason Calacanis Oct 9, 2021 ▶ 25:05 E50: Crypto investing deep dive, Facebook's whistleblower fallout, Chappelle's new special & more
Sep 18, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Yakovenko: Initial Solana calculations showed 1,000x speed vs Ethereum
“When I had my kind of eureka moment and I did the back of the envelope calculation for design, I'm like, oh, this is a thousand times faster than ETH.”
Anatoly Yakovenko Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 4:16 Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
Sep 18, 2025 bullish
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Yakovenko: Bitcoin will survive the collapse of major institutional holders
“I think Bitcoin is resilient to these entities collapsing. Now, it's not going to be without painful risk that in terms of like people that own Bitcoin, but the thing is, it'll survive that, and all the properties of Bitcoin that people value will remain throu…”
Anatoly Yakovenko Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 19:21 Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
Sep 18, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Yakovenko: Solana spent $2M of $14M raised on US legal fees
“We raised a seed in A-Round. It was about fourteen million bucks, which is amazing. It was, you know, like, outright crazy success for a new, a first-time founder. I had to spend two million of that on lawyer fees. Which is a more than 10% of my runway to figu…”
Anatoly Yakovenko Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 13:48 Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
Sep 18, 2025 positive
Opinion
Yakovenko: Execution is where money is made in blockchain
“Execution is where all the money's made, so I think we're on the right track, and a fast execution engine can also do settlement.”
Anatoly Yakovenko Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 4:47 Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
Sep 18, 2025 negative
Opinion
Yakovenko: Bitcoin should migrate to a quantum-resistant signature scheme
“We should migrate Bitcoin to a quantum resistance signature scheme.”
Anatoly Yakovenko Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 16:28 Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
Sep 18, 2025 positive
Opinion
Yakovenko: Bitcoin's original code is the coolest software in 20 years
“The coolest piece of software written in the last 20 years is, I would say, the Bitcoin, like, Nakamoto implementation.”
Anatoly Yakovenko Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 22:31 Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
Sep 18, 2025 negative
Insight
Yakovenko: DeFi risk management is useless if all assets are correlated
“If everything that is in crypto, all this innovation around risk management in real time between, you know, borrowers and lenders, it's useless because if everything's a meme coin, everything's correlated, it'll all crash at the same time.”
Anatoly Yakovenko Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 14:52 Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
Sep 18, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Yakovenko: Solana is world's execution layer, Ethereum is settlement layer
“Ethereum being world settlement layer, Solana is the world's execution layer.”
Anatoly Yakovenko Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 4:35 Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
Sep 18, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Yakovenko: NFT-driven community IP creation will succeed in 5 to 10 years
“So I think even the weird experiments with NFTs being a way to create a community of artists to build a movie or story and create true new IP, all that will happen just five years from now or 10 years once We had critical maps.”
Anatoly Yakovenko Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 10:36 Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
Sep 18, 2025 neutral
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Yakovenko: 50% chance of quantum computing breakthrough within five years
“Honest answer, I feel like fifty-fifty within five years there is a quantum breakthrough, and part of that is because of how fast they are.”
Anatoly Yakovenko Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 16:15 Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
Sep 18, 2025 bullish
Insight
Yakovenko: Crypto monetization could enable a viable competitor to TikTok
“I personally think that you could build a competitive product to TikTok with crypto if the magic, you caught that kind of lightning in a bottle, because the monetization mechanism with crypto is so different than the ad-based one.”
Anatoly Yakovenko Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 11:27 Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko on Crypto's Next Era: Quantum, AI, and the Future of Money
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