In the mid-aughts, Anatoly Yakovenko, a cofounder of the blockchain Solana, imagined a future where he could wield a handheld computer. Little did he know that, three years later, Apple would release the first iPhone.
“It's crazy, right, how fast that can happen?" Yakovenko, wearing a black T-shirt and baseball cap, said to a rapt audience in New York City last June. But, he added, “That can happen in crypto.”
