Solana (SOL) co-founder urges L1 teams to prioritize building their own products

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko urged Layer 1 development teams to prioritize building native products on their own blockchains rather than ceding that ground to outside builders. In a post on the 6th, he argued teams should not abandon in-house L1 product work even when external observers question the effort, framing the priority as what L1 teams should build first rather than any single launch. Yakovenko stressed that finding product-market fit is extremely difficult and that any product carries substantial failure risk. The comments matter because they signal a strategic shift toward Solana’s core team and ecosystem projects capturing more value at the application layer, not just the protocol level. What to watch next is whether Solana-linked teams redirect resources toward first-party products and how the market judges those launches against the network’s existing third-party dApp ecosystem.