# SolanaDecentralizationProgress

【Blockchain Rhythm】At the Solana Breakpoint Conference, co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko shared his unique understanding of decentralization. He emphasized that decentralization has never meant the absence of leaders, but rather that leadership naturally emerges throughout the ecosystem—a more mature and healthier state.
Over the past five years, Solana's development has proven this point. From the core team of the Foundation and Labs to fully independent community developers, application builders, and protocol designers, each role autonomously takes on the responsibilities of network construction and leadership. This multi-center leadership model has significantly enhanced the network’s resilience and innovation capacity.
Interestingly, Yakovenko also revealed a detail — he no longer has commit access on GitHub. Standing on the conference stage, he only used two minutes for his speech.

【BitPush】The development path of the Solana ecosystem has given me an interesting insight.
At the recent industry conference, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko discussed his understanding of decentralization. He emphasized that decentralization does not mean the absence of leaders; instead, it leads to a rich emergence of leadership—over the past five years, talents from the foundation, ecosystem companies, as well as completely independent community developers, application, and protocol builders, have proactively taken on network leadership responsibilities.
What is most interesting is his attitude shift towards his own role. He has now given up his commit rights on GitHub, and his public speeches have been shortened to about two minutes. He openly admits that his goal is to sit in the audience and watch the ecosystem operate—this transformation, in his view, is a true sign of the network’s maturity and independent vitality.
This story reflects what a mature ecosystem should have

At the Solana Breakpoint conference, co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko stated that decentralization does not mean the absence of leaders, but rather the emergence of diverse leadership, demonstrating the network's maturity and self-evolution. He is proud of the current leadership role of the network.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko emphasized at the conference that decentralization is not about lack of leadership, but the emergence of diverse leaders. He mentioned the maturity and development of the network, believing that he no longer dominates and feeling proud of it.