# Despite

By [wushi](https://paragraph.com/@damuss) · 2021-12-07

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For anyone that’s been watching the crypto space for the last year, Solana’s rise has been hard to miss. Last week, SOL was breaking new ground to reach its current [all-time high of $260](https://decrypt.co/85457/solana-hits-all-time-high-of-260), just days before [flipping Tether](https://decrypt.co/85586/solana-flips-tether-again-reclaim-fourth-largest-cryptocurrency) to become the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. 

Despite the token price, Solana enthusiasts that travelled to Portugal to find out what big idea is coming next for the ecosystem may have left a little empty-handed. 

“There’s not a huge major release on the roadmap or anything like that,” Anatoly Yakovenko, Solana co-founder, told _Decrypt_ during an exclusive interview at Breakpoint. The interview aired as part of _Decrypt_ and _Yahoo Finance_’s [Crypto Goes Mainstream event](https://decrypt.co/videos/live-events/8JmE2j4H/crypto-goes-mainstream-an-event-by-decrypt-and-yf) last week in New York. 

“The reason why I, as an engineer, hate roadmaps is because it’s really hard to predict anything beyond two weeks,” Yakovenko added. 

The conference was therefore not the place where Yakovenko or Raj Gokal, Solana’s other co-founder, would drop any huge roadmap bombshell on their most faithful supporters.

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*Originally published on [wushi](https://paragraph.com/@damuss/despite)*