Yakovenko: Crypto Will Cap Around 100M High-Spending Users, Not 8 Billion
Anatoly Yakovenko · #107 Crypto Isn’t for Everyone (And That’s a Good Thing) with Anatoly Yakovenko · More or Less Podcast · Jul 11, 2025 · at 26:15
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko discusses consumer crypto adoption and whether crypto applications should pursue mass mainstream users or high-value power users.
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“I think there is just a set of users that are kind of heavy users, and that might be a limited, that's not going to be eight billion people. I don't know how big that set is, but it could be like A hundred million. Right now, that sounds like a small fraction of a billion, but because they're so spendy, it is a huge user base that I think you can use to build your initial kind of go to market app that makes money, but then you have to go do something else.”
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