Solana was created in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko alongside current Solana board member and Chief Operations Officer Raj Gokal. Yakovenko, now Solana Lab’s CEO, came from a background in system design and wanted to apply his knowledge toward a new blockchain paradigm that enabled faster processing speeds.
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Anatoly Yakovenko is a Russian computer engineer and co-founder of the Solana project . He authored the Solana white paper. Growing up in the Soviet Union, he was obsessed with computers from the age of five.
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