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Enter Yakovenko. Unlike Buterin, who is more a theorist and researcher than a coder, Yakovenko wants to do whatever it takes to onboard billions to crypto with a blockchain so fast it could rival traditional finance. “He doesn’t care about white papers. He doesn’t care about academia,” said Solana investor Kyle Samani, a managing partner at Multico... See more

In 2020, Avital Balwit had won a Rhodes Scholarship and turned it down, first to run Carrick Flynn’s congressional campaign and then to give away FTX’s money. Leopold Aschenbrenner, who had entered Columbia University at the age of fifteen and graduated four years later as class valedictorian, had just declined a spot at Yale Law School to work for

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