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Solana Labs CEO Anatoly Yakovenko has finally broken his silence and responded to the controversy sparked by the "America Is Back—Time to Accelerate" advertisement. The ad combines American patriotism, technological innovation, and political messages regarding gender identity.
In a post on the X platform on March 19, Yakovenko stated, "This ad is terrible, and it still makes me uncomfortable." He has faced strong backlash for the advertisement recently.
"I am ashamed of my initial dismissive attitude; I should have pointed out its issues directly—it is mean-spirited and oppressive to marginalized groups."
Yakovenko also praised those within the Solana ecosystem who bravely pointed out the problems with the ad. The advertisement was posted on Solana's official X account, accumulating about 1.2 million views and 1,300 comments before being deleted approximately nine hours later.
He mentioned that this experience has led him to reflect deeply and promised that Solana will focus on open-source software development and decentralized building in the future, avoiding involvement in "culture wars."
Source: Anatoly Yakovenko
Solana has not yet issued an official comment on the matter, but its X account has retweeted Yakovenko's post to its 3.3 million followers.
Cointelegraph reached out to the Solana Foundation shortly after the ad was removed but did not receive a response.
The two-and-a-half-minute Solana Accelerate conference advertisement featured a man representing "America" who, during a therapy session, expressed that he began to think about "innovation," such as cryptocurrency.
The therapist responded that he should do "more productive things, like create a new gender," and then suggested he "focus on pronouns."
The man immediately countered, "I want to invent technology, not gender."
Took them 9 hours to delete it. Also, all the major players in the Solana ecosystem suddenly deleted their tweets promoting/supporting the ad and retweeted and liked takes about it being bad. They approved this, supported it, and celebrated it. They rolled it back because it hurt… pic.twitter.com/kPMERDpTcn
Nine days before the now-deleted advertisement was posted, Solana's X account stated, "Solana belongs to everyone."
Cinneamhain Ventures partner Adam Cochran pointed out that the contributions of the transgender community in open-source software and cryptography "far exceed their proportion."
A 2017 GitHub survey showed that among a randomly selected 5,500 open-source developers, 1% identified as transgender, and another 1% as non-binary.
Most data collected from 2017 to 2018 indicated that the combined proportion of transgender and non-binary individuals in the total population was approximately between 0.1% and 0.6%.
Related: Solana deletes "awkward" ad, criticized for being "out of touch" on gender issues.
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