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Launch · Nov 1, 2017
Proof of History whitepaper
Anatoly Yakovenko publishes the idea behind Solana.
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In November 2017 Anatoly Yakovenko published a whitepaper describing Proof of History, a verifiable sequence of hashes that acts like a clock for the network. It became the design basis for Solana. There was no token yet.
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