Many people look at the Candlestick of SOL, but no one really knows the person behind it—Anatoly Yakovenko.

He came from Qualcomm, carrying the genes of a hardcore engineer, and did something that changed the game: for the first time, he wrote the dimension of time into the underlying code of the blockchain.

Most people complain that blockchain is slow, expensive, and congested, but Yacowenke thinks more fundamentally — why not let it operate like an operating system?

This straightforward and forceful idea gave rise to Proof of History (PoH). What are the results? Throughput crushes competitors, transaction fees are negligible, and on-chain time can be verified. By 2025, over 50% of DeFi transactions will have migrated to this chain, not just a slogan, but a tangible ecological shift.

Millions of active addresses, over a hundred billion in market value, with various sectors such as gaming, NFTs, and DePIN all accelerating their expansion. But this person never makes empty promises or calls out trades. What he loves to do most on social media is to criticize inefficient designs, which is why people in the community jokingly refer to him as the "thinker behind the killer."

Interestingly, although his personal fortune is substantial, with SOL being his core asset, this is not a gambler's mentality, but rather an engineer's confidence in his own product—stemming from an absolute understanding of the underlying code.

In a bull market, people always ask: will the next one be crazier? But the real question is: will the next generation of Web3 applications run on this chain? Prices may lie, but engineering, ecology, and usage rates never do. This story goes far beyond the fluctuations of any Candlestick.