Co-founder of Solana Anatoly Jacobenko Facing backlash from the Crypto community is surrounding his comments on Meme Coins and fungible Tokens (NFTS). Yakovenko made these remarks against these tokens, despite his network being home to most of the top meme coins by market capitalization.
Crypto Community responds to comments from Solana founder
The Crypto community criticized Anatoly Jacobenko after him xPosthe explained Meme Coin NFT as a “digital slop” and something that has no intrinsic value. The founder of Solana added that, like the booty box of mobile games, people spend $150 billion a year on mobile games in connection with ideology on meme coins and NFTs.
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Crypto Marketer Anastasiia Bobeshko explained Comments from Solana’s founder say it’s interesting considering the traction that the meme has brought Solana Ecosystem. She further said that the network made $1.6 billion in the first half of 2025 thanks to these meme coins. It had previously been done by another member of the Crypto community, Ethereum Developer Hanniabu echo It’s a similar sentiment, suggesting that the network is nothing without memecoin.
Null, Bonk community members, It has been declared that Solana Network Without the meme coin, it wouldn’t be where we are today. Yakabenko replied Ironically, “Absolutely. Without the lootbox, iOS would make Apple’s revenue small.”
Meanwhile, Crypto community members The Chick of Art asked The founder of Solana said that if he had problems with a Memecoin trader who spends $150 billion a year on his chain, they didn’t see it as a mobile game. Jacovenko replied And he hinted at an earlier reply that explained that what matters is that we need to monitor data, fix issues, use snipers and work towards implementing a market that can withstand sandwiches.
Difference Between Solana and Base Meme Coin
It is worth noting that Solana Founder’s comments about Meme Coins came from when he criticized comments from Base’s lead developer. Jesse Pollack proposed Zora meme coins (base tokens) are Solana’s Pump.Fun. In response, Jacobenko asked What Pumpun has if Pollak Zora Coins has claims about future cash flows from its creator.
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Pollack then reveals that the value of each coin depends on the basics, so he believes that not all meme coins are the same. However, the founder of Solana does not believe that the meme coins have “essential value” as a whole.
Despite his comments, these meme coins, especially top coins such as Fartcoin, Bonk, Pengu and Trump, continue to contribute to a significant amount of daily trading volumes on the network. In particular, Solana prices surged to a new all-time high (ATH) of $294 in January. Trump Meme Coin was first released. Sol had a huge surge in demand at the time, and investors were demanding Altcoin buy Meme Coin.
At the time of writing, Solana’s prices are trading at around $183, down more than 5% over the past 24 hours. data From CoinMarketCap.
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