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Anatoli emphasizes that Solana's design prioritizes execution speed, aiming to provide a blockchain capable of supporting the entire world’s asset transactions seamlessly. Unlike many layer-1 chains that still resemble traditional databases with slow settlement times, Solana’s approach is to build a single, atomic state machine running at physics-defined speed limits.
This architecture hinges on concurrent processing—an enormous leap from the sequential, slow consensus mechanisms of earlier blockchains. By efficiently parallelizing transaction validation and leveraging high bandwidth, Solana can theoretically reach hundreds of thousands of transactions per second (TPS), far surpassing existing networks like Ethereum or Bitcoin.