Nakamoto Vision for Solana: Co-Founder Yakovenko Sets New Decentralization Timeline Post-AI Rollout

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko outlined the network’s long-term development path. Comparing the blockchain’s technological stages to the 12-year period between the beginning of the American Revolution and the signing of the U.S. Constitution, he made it clear that reaching the Nakamoto milestone will take years.

From AI infrastructure to security

Solana is currently at the stage of large-scale Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployment. It connects the blockchain with artificial intelligence, allowing AI agents to natively analyze the network and manage wallets. However, Yakovenko is looking beyond the current hype surrounding AI.

His goal is the Nakamoto standard, which means a radical increase in the Nakamoto coefficient. This metric shows how many validators would need to be controlled to block or censor a blockchain.

Solana’s current score stands at around 20, heavily restricted by data center concentration and geographic staking clusters.

The goal of the new architecture is to raise it to a level that would make the network physically resistant to any external pressure, effectively distributing consensus power far beyond the current top-tier validation firms.

Why does this matter?

Solana has already addressed its technical problems with speed and outages through the release of the ultra-fast Firedancer client, which pushed hardware efficiency limits to over one million transactions per second in test environments, introducing vital client diversity to eliminate single points of software failure.

But high speed is useless if the network can still be censored.

In this context, Yakovenko’s statement is not just another tweet, but the formalization of a new strategic plan in which Solana moves beyond its status as a “fast and cheap network for coins” and begins a direct expansion into Ethereum’s territory, targeting its main advantage — long-term reliability and decentralization for institutional users, thereby positioning SOL as a sovereign, uncensorable Layer-1 asset capable of meeting strict global regulatory compliance standards.