Anatoly Yakovenko is the creator of the Solana blockchain He provided a way to solve the problem of scalability of blockchains and built one of the cheapest and fastest blockchains in the world,and he also strongly believes in the potential of blockchain to transform the world's financial system and create a free world

Solana was introduced in a white paper published by Anatoly Yakovenko in November 2017. This article describes a technique called "proof-of-date".
In September 2021, Bloomberg journalist Joanna Ossinger described Solana as "a potential long-term competitor to Atrium", citing faster transaction speeds and lower fees.