Just read something wild about Solana's founder - apparently Anatoly Yakovenko's net worth could be sitting somewhere between $500 million to over a billion by now. Most of it's from his SOL holdings and his stake in Solana Labs, which people are estimating at around 5-10% of the company. Pretty insane when you think about it.

Looking at the onchain data, there's a suspected wallet linked to him holding like 136k SOL tokens, and if you count all the connected addresses, his total token bag could be worth around $122 million alone. Plus he apparently got in early on some other projects like Jito Labs and Drift Protocol, so that's adding to the pile too.

SOL's been bouncing around $86 lately (up 0.48% today), so the valuations do shift depending on where the price lands. It's crazy how much of these founder fortunes are tied up in their own tokens. Anyway, Anatoly Yakovenko's net worth is definitely something to keep an eye on as the market moves around.