Most Influential 2021: Anatoly Yakovenko

Anatoly Yakovenko calls himself the biggest skeptic of cryptocurrencies, even though he developed one of the fastest-growing crypto networks, Solana. The blockchain can reportedly process 50,000 transactions per second, far more than competing smart contract blockchain Ethereum ( $2,301.52 ) , which stalls out at 45 transactions per second. In five years, Yakovenko expects the speed to be at least four times greater than it is now.