Solana was founded in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko. Anatoly chose the name Solana in honor of Solana Beach, a small beach town north of San Diego where they lived and surfed for three years while working at Qualcomm.

Prior to founding Solana, Anatoly spent many years at Qualcomm, Mesosphere, and Dropbox, with extensive experience in high-performance networking and distributed systems.

He recognizes that blockchain's bottlenecks in scalability limit its potential for large-scale adoption. Inspired by time synchronization techniques in distributed systems, he came up with the concept of Proof of History (PoH). Used for time synchronization between computers that don't trust each other.

Let's take a look at how Solana uses PoH to achieve efficient synchronization between validators.

Solana was founded in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko. Anatoly chose the name Solana in honor of Solana Beach, a small beach town north of San Diego where they lived and surfed for three years while working at Qualcomm.

Prior to founding Solana, Anatoly spent many years at Qualcomm, Mesosphere, and Dropbox, with extensive experience in high-performance networking and distributed systems.

He recognizes that blockchain's bottlenecks in scalability limit its potential for large-scale adoption. Inspired by time synchronization techniques in distributed systems, he came up with the concept of Proof of History (PoH). Used for time synchronization between computers that don't trust each other.

Let's take a look at how Solana uses PoH to achieve efficient synchronization between validators.