Decentralization Myth? Solana Founder’s Comment Ignites Controversy

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When Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko posted on X on 14 June that “all users need is 1 full node to defend against 100 percent of malicious stake,” the remark detonated a familiar flashpoint in the ongoing Solana-versus-Ethereum culture war. In Yakovenko’s telling, any node—even one with zero SOL staked—could “carry the torch” and veto a rogue software upgrade, because Solana’s fork-choice rules allow any honest client to refuse blocks it considers invalid. Critics immediately seized on the claim as proof that the network’s vaunted speed rests on a fragile foundation of social coordination rather than hard-coded decentralization.

Solana Decentralized?

Developer “0xZodomo” fired the first volley, warning that “a single Discord

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