Solana Creator Talk Say Privacy No Dey Drive Product-Market Fit
Solana Labs founder Anatoly Yakovenko talk say Solana privacy alone no get product-market fit. For one recent X post, e talk say privacy no be killer feature. E stress say features suppose solve clear problems, give real utility, and change how users behave. Privacy fit technical and ideological needs but e no dey drive DeFi adoption on its own. Critics point to on-chain events like the Hyperliquid whale liquidation to show need for privacy. Yakovenko reject these examples, talk say complaint no mean demand for solution. Solana’s Token-2022 support confidential transfers and encrypted balances. But these opt-in features need token migration. Early projects like Elusiv and Arcium dey use zero-knowledge proofs to improve privacy. Compared to Ethereum’s mature zk-Rollups, Solana privacy infrastructure still less developed. Yakovenko and former Solana head of growth Matty Taylor agree say sustainable revenue, demand, and liquidity na core for product-market fit, not privacy alone.
Neutral
Market no go react strong because privacy improvement for Solana dem just small small change, no big transformation. Before, when dem announce privacy upgrade like Tornado Cash join Ethereum, price no last long; traders dey focus on feature wey fit drive user growth and revenue. Short term, SOL fit dey sideways as investors dey wait for clear utility gain. Long term, privacy tools fit support small small use case but still secondary to liquidity, demand, and revenue basics. So, this clarification from Yakovenko just reinforce say market sentiment remain neutral, e show say core product-market fit drivers dey somewhere else.