Solana co-founder: L1 teams should build products themselves

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko said on November 6 that layer-1 teams should build first-party products themselves, arguing that product-market fit is hard to achieve and that teams must use their own chain to identify missing features relative to competing products. He framed the real competition not as other applications already supporting Solana, but as financial applications worldwide that have yet to adopt the chain. The comments signal a push for Solana’s core team to ship its own products rather than rely solely on third-party builders. What to watch next is whether Solana’s leadership follows through with in-house applications and how that shapes its positioning against rival L1 ecosystems courting the same financial app developers.