Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"There's sort of an analogy to the internet and content on the internet. Like, newspapers didn't go away. They started publishing on the internet.
And I think that's the same thing we're seeing here, right? Visa is not going away. They're using Solana.
They piloted on Ethereum. They moved to Solana for settlement between merchants and issuers. It's starting small, but ultimately these rails are actually maybe better than things like SWIFT for the existing institutions to move onto."
–Solana Co-Founder Raj Gokal at Abundance Summit 2026
"There's sort of an analogy to the internet and content on the internet. Like, newspapers didn't go away. They started publishing on the internet.
And I think that's the same thing we're seeing here, right? Visa is not going away. They're using Solana.
They piloted on Ethereum. They moved to Solana for settlement between merchants and issuers. It's starting small, but ultimately these rails are actually maybe better than things like SWIFT for the existing institutions to move onto."
–Solana Co-Founder Raj Gokal at Abundance Summit 2026
