Named “Opening Bell,” the platform allows companies to natively issue shares onchain — a notable innovation for tokenized public equities. The Solana-focused holding company Sol Strategies became the platform’s first participant.

Many in Solana were quick to celebrate the news, because in its early days, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko would sometimes liken the network to Nasdaq on the blockchain. Today, Yakovenko penned a rare blog post alongside Anza lead economist Max Resnick outlining how Solana’s path to creating a decentralized Nasdaq runs through the implementation of multiple concurrent leaders, where different validators can create blocks at the same time.

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https://blockworks.co/news/nasdaq-on-solana-opening-bell-sol-strategies

a tu je ten blog: https://www.anza.xyz/blog/the-path-to-decentralized-nasdaq

Max Resnick (Anza) & Anatoly Yakovenko (Solana Labs)
May 8, 2025

Solana was originally founded to build a blockchain that is so fast and so cheap that you can put a working central limit order book on top of it. Solana mainnet beta launched in March of 2020 – we are now five years in and, despite everything we have achieved, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we have not succeeded in that goal.

The fundamental building blocks of blockchains as they exist today are not designed for trading. If we want to achieve Solana’s original mission, we must go back to the drawing board and fundamentally redesign consensus from first principles, with the ultimate goal of producing a decentralized network that has the necessary features to compete with the New York Stock Exchange.

When we say compete with the New York Stock Exchange we mean exchanges on Solana need to be able to provide better prices than their centralized counterparts.

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