Solana Co-founder Toly Thanks AI Technological Advancements
Solana co-founder Toly expressed gratitude for advancements in AI technology.
He criticized selfish NIMBY groups for being unable to envision a future where the global median standard of living reaches the current median standard of the United States, instead only imagining a future of poverty and misery.
Tech optimists and AI infrastructure investors are buying related assets, shifting funds from local opposition that restricts growth to AI-driven global prosperity technologies. Solana and AI growth advocates benefit, while NIMBY-style regulations and anti-growth forces face public opinion and policy pressure.
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Anatoly Yakovenko, as the founder of Solana, challenged Ethereum congestion with high-performance public chains in the early days and has repeatedly opposed excessive regulation and anti-growth ideologies. He has previously criticized NIMBY for hindering housing, energy, and infrastructure development, and now views AI as a core tool to break the zero-sum mindset, continuing his long-standing technological optimism.
In terms of capital pathways, Toly promotes AI + on-chain applications (such as Agent, DePIN) through the Solana ecosystem, guiding developers and capital towards scalable, high-throughput infrastructure. He aims to directly counter the NIMBY logic of "limited resources must be allocated" with technological abundance, forming a closed loop that attracts global growth-oriented funds with "high-performance chains + AI applications."
Similar to Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen's long-standing criticisms of NIMBY and "declinism," Solana is currently in a mid-expansion phase of transitioning from "financial speculation" to "infrastructure-driven global prosperity" in the crypto + AI space. Toly's views resonate with the current consensus among AI optimists and the anti-NIMBY alliance.
Essentially, this represents a technological substitution: the traditional resource allocation mechanism that relies on physical scarcity and local veto power is being replaced by AI-driven exponential abundance. Toly believes AI can enable the global median standard of living to catch up with today's U.S. standard, thereby breaking the zero-sum imagination of NIMBY and reconstructing social development from "maintaining the stock, limiting the increment" to a growth mechanism of "technological expansion and shared prosperity."