General Director of Solana Labs Anatoly Yakovenko aroused heat this week, calling Memecoins and NFTS “Digital SLOP” without real value. Note on X as a reverse and fort with the base creator of Jesse Pollak.

Yakovenko compared these tokens with booty in mobile games for free. His blunt shot attracted both praise and criticism from around the cryptographic world.

Memecoins face pointed words

Yakovenko said that he had maintained this view from at least January 2024. He argued that the price was paying people, which gives the toxes every value.

Pollak rested, saying that the content – like a picture hanging in the museum – expresses its value, no matter what you download to see it.

The debate drew attention to how far the Solana’s development is based on what its leader rejects.

I have said it for years. Memecoins and NFT are digital SLOPs and have no internal value. Like mobile spoils with spoils. People spend $ 150 for mobile games.

– Toly (@Aeyakovenko) July 27, 2025

Solana revenues related to the “slope”

According to the infrastructure company oriented on the Solana Sympica, Memecoins In June it accounted for 62% of decentralized revenues from applications on the web. This number helped lower Solana to around $ 1.6 billion in the first half of 2025.

Great fragments of this money come from Pump.fun’s Launchpad and Aggregator DexSwap Pumpswap. However, Yakovenko said that Apple boiled boxes drive revenues from the App Store in the same way – independent, but perceived by many as exploiting.

The content itself is valuable. Ads are a way to earn this value. But the content itself is valuable. Like the image, it is essentially valuable, regardless of whether you download people in the museum to see it.

– jesse.base.eth (@Jessepollak) July 27, 2025

Community compilation

Critics will call him quickly. X user “Caps”, who writes about Flaunch, accused Yakovenko of mockery of his own user base.

Another commentator, Karbon, said that he considers this position “tasteless”, indicating that Yakovenko promotes Memecoins all the time, even while claiming that they are worthless.

In the clash, fans and skeptics are debating whether it is fair to despise the market, which so clearly feeds the development of salty.

The competition warms up

Meanwhile, the competing memecoin launchpad called Letbonk eaten Pump.funLead. At different times, Letbonk even placed a pump. According to 24 -hour revenues.

This shows that users are ready to chase another gigantic token, wherever it appears. For SaltThis means more money in a tiny period, but also a greater risk of instability if the noise moves elsewhere.

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