Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Kristen Smith at the Solana Policy Institute Summit 2026:
"Public, permissionless blockchains do one thing with elegant simplicity: They create a shared, programmable ledger that can be read by anyone and corrupted by no one.
Assets can be issued on that ledger, transferred between parties, and settled with finality. Instantly, transparently, and without the need of a series of intermediaries to vouch for the transaction.
But not all blockchains are built to carry the weight of global finance. The technology has been around long enough that we can distinguish between networks that are science projects and networks that are infrastructure.
Solana is infrastructure. Solana is built from first principles to achieve the performance profile that global markets and payments demand. It processes transactions in milliseconds. It's capable of handling tens of thousands of transactions per second under real world conditions. And the average transaction on Solana costs a fraction of a cent, a fee so low that it effectively eliminates cost as a variable."
– Kristin Smith, President of the Solana Policy Institute
Watch Kristin’s full talk:
youtu.be/2o4HEjs5RcQ?si=tFPKQg9dojUbqlf-
Kristen Smith at the Solana Policy Institute Summit 2026:
"Public, permissionless blockchains do one thing with elegant simplicity: They create a shared, programmable ledger that can be read by anyone and corrupted by no one.
Assets can be issued on that ledger, transferred between parties, and settled with finality. Instantly, transparently, and without the need of a series of intermediaries to vouch for the transaction.
But not all blockchains are built to carry the weight of global finance. The technology has been around long enough that we can distinguish between networks that are science projects and networks that are infrastructure.
Solana is infrastructure. Solana is built from first principles to achieve the performance profile that global markets and payments demand. It processes transactions in milliseconds. It's capable of handling tens of thousands of transactions per second under real world conditions. And the average transaction on Solana costs a fraction of a cent, a fee so low that it effectively eliminates cost as a variable."
– Kristin Smith, President of the Solana Policy Institute
Watch Kristin’s full talk:
youtu.be/2o4HEjs5RcQ?si=tFPKQg9dojUbqlf-
