Crypto’s future unfolds with Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

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Solana Labs CEO and Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko will appear on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 , taking place from October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, to discuss the future of crypto—from the surge in meme coins to practical financial applications and everything in between.

This is a fintech discussion you won’t want to skip. Get up to $624 off your ticket if you purchase before tonight’s 11:59 p.m. PT deadline. Groups can enjoy discounts of up to 30% on tickets.

Insights on scaling blockchain and driving crypto adoption at Disrupt

Yakovenko will break down Solana’s standout year, the increasing need for affordable, scalable blockchain solutions, and how the platform is enabling a new wave of decentralized applications. He’ll also offer insights from building through different market phases, strategies for widespread developer engagement, and his reasons for believing in crypto’s mainstream potential.

Recognized as a leading technical authority in blockchain, Yakovenko brings over ten years of engineering expertise—from his time at Qualcomm to co-founding one of the fastest-expanding blockchain networks globally.

Shaping tomorrow’s finance and Solana’s ascent

Anatoly Yakovenko serves as CEO of Solana Labs and is a co-founder of Solana, an open, decentralized, high-speed blockchain powering the next generation of financial services and applications. Prior to launching Solana, he spent more than ten years as a systems engineer at Qualcomm. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.

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1. Crypto outperformed traditional equity indexes following the rate hike, but elevated interest rates remain a key constraint on cross-asset allocation. From September 12 to 18, BTC, ETH, and SOL gained 4.83%, 3.84%, and 9.96%, respectively, while the S&P 500 edged down 0.08%. The U.S. Dollar Index rose 1.11%, and the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield closed at approximately 4.998%. Improving risk appetite is therefore coexisting with elevated discount rates, raising the bar for RWA allocation: investors need to compare not only returns on the underlying assets, but also on-chain liquidity and collateral efficiency. 2. Growth in tokenized equities is occurring even as the overall RWA market remains under pressure. As of September 18, Distributed Asset Value across RWAs stood at $38.503 billion, down 1.13% week over week, while tokenized equities reached $3.056 billion, up 6.03%. This week's data are better explained by capital reallocating across different RWA segments than by a broad-based expansion of the entire RWA market. 3. For exchanges, the opportunity lies in connecting spot holdings, collateral, and derivatives. Reality's distributed asset value stands at approximately $155 million, while eligible rTokens can already be used within Bitget's UTA margin framework. Across CoinGlass's verifiable sample of 177 TradFi instruments, open interest reached approximately $11.498 billion, up 2.06% week over week, even as weekly trading volume declined 7.60%. The medium-term opportunity remains intact, but deeper utilization will depend on liquidity, collateral use, and sustained trading activity. 4.Assets to watch: BTC, ETH, SOL, NEAR, ZEC, gold, tokenized U.S. equities, COST. 5.Key metrics to watch: rToken collateral utilization, the durability of TradFi open interest and trading volume, and next week's employment and consumer data.

Bitget•2026/09/21 06:38