Key Takeaways: Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko's proposal to mint new SOL tokens to fund a company acquisition leaves the legal buyer, ownership structure, and control of acquired revenue unresolved.
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Solana mint-for-acquisition plan faces 60,000 SOL daily inflation gap
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko proposed minting new SOL to buy a company, then burning tokens with its revenue — more bullish than cutting inflation.
Solana's governance framework could supply a directional mandate — a validator vote account with at least 100,000 SOL staked may submit a Solana Governance Proposal, support from 15 percent of active stake opens voting, and approval requires two-thirds of decisive stake, according to the solana-governance-proposals repository.
As of Aug. 18, the reviewed official merged-proposal directories contained no acquisition SGP or SIMD. A separate draft fee-burn proposal, SIMD-0553, estimates Solana burns about 648 SOL per day from signature fees at roughly 3,000 transactions per second, compared with about 60,000 SOL of daily inflation.
Until a formal proposal defines both tracks, control remains unresolved: validators and delegators could indicate a direction, the SIMD process would still require technical specification, implementation and activation, and the corporate side would need to identify who selects the target, which legal entity buys and owns it, and who controls operations and revenue.
In an Aug. 15 post on X, Yakovenko called the concept more bullish than simply lowering inflation. He clarified the next day that company revenue would fund SOL purchases and burns, which he characterized as returning value to holders.
The Solana Foundation describes itself as a Zug-based nonprofit, while Solana Labs identifies itself as a separate company group. Validators and delegators are separate network participants, and the cited materials do not name either as the buyer or grant it acquisition authority for the network.
Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz responded sarcastically that validators would have to agree on running a company. A stake-weighted mandate would not identify a legal buyer, and the cited governance materials do not specify who could sign a purchase agreement, hold the asset, appoint management, or direct revenue.
If newly issued SOL were transferred to a seller, total supply would rise at issuance. A holder receiving none would then hold a smaller share of total supply unless, and only to the extent that, later burns reduced it.
SOL traded at rank No. 7 by market cap with a market capitalization of $44.74 billion and 24-hour volume of $1.53 billion, up 13.10 percent. The token was up 1.78 percent over the past 24 hours with a circulating supply of 582.89 million SOL and a fully diluted valuation of $48.54 billion.
The staged resource-fee burns in SIMD-0553 illustrate the scale of the existing gap between daily burns and inflation, but the document contains no acquisition mechanism and does not authorize Yakovenko's idea.
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