Solana Foundation eliminates the controversial announcement after the reaction of the cryptographic community

The Solana Foundation has eliminated an advertisement of its official account X after criticism about its political messages about gender identity.

The announcement, published on March 17 to promote the Solana accelerated conference, attracted negative comments from the cryptographic community for its references to gender and pronouns.

Solana co -founder disapproves the campaign

The video in question represented a man, known as “America”, speaking with a therapist about his thoughts about innovation and cryptography. However, the professional dismissed his concerns and suggested that he focus on finding a new genre and pronouns.

As the conversation continued, the man delivered a monologue established in patriotic music, declaring his intention to build in the chain, claim innovation and invent technologies instead of genres.

The co-founder of Solana, Anatoly Yakovenko, who recently disagreed with the executive director of the Foundation, Lily Liu, on the now re-exported Simd-228 proposal, has been distant since then from the campaign. He fixed That a previous marketing effort, the “announcement of Maren”, had been better. While the original publication has been eliminated, multiple users have replaced On the platform.

Community reaction

Several industry figures criticized the initiative for their management of gender identity and their political tone. Cinneamhain Ventures Adam Cochran partner pointed It was that it took nine hours in Solana to eliminate the post. He also pointed out that the main figures in their ecosystem initially supported the announcement before eliminating their tweets and commitment to him.

“They approved it, supported and celebrated it,” he said. “They made him go back because he hurt his business, not because they thought it was wrong.”

Head of Blocking Operation are O’Connor called The “deafness” initiative, especially after the recent policy changes in the president of the United States, Donald Trump, revoked Joe Biden’s executive orders with the aim of preventing discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation.

Tyler Bench, cro of the governance platform in the Tally.xyz chain, described The campaign is very problematic and compared it to the previous Coinbase ads but with a more extreme tone. Anneri van der Merwe, product leader at the base, criticized It is like offensive and complicated, stating that it contradicts the previous messages of Solana on inclusion.

Nicolas Pennie, co -founder of the Solana Helius development platform, argued That signage of virtue in marketing efforts would always be ineffective, regardless of political ideology. For his part, the operating chief of Doublezero David McIntyre disputed Why the platform did not adopt a more positive approach instead of making fun of social problems.

Some observers believe that the intention was to attract people by causing controversy. Reka, CEO of Dex Protocol Avnu.fi Suggested that marketing was designed exclusively for attention, stating that he prioritized controversy over creativity.