Solana’s Lily Liu: ‘Everything Can Be Tokenized’ — The Internet’s Next Financial Backbone

Lily Liu, President of the Solana Foundation, delivered a keynote speech in Shanghai, reinforcing Solana's long-term vision to become the "Financial Infrastructure" of the future internet. She segmented the core value of blockchain into two parts: Assets, a role firmly established by Bitcoin as "Digital Gold," and Financial Infrastructure, which is Solana's ultimate ambition.

Solana aims to be the technological platform that unifies all asset classes and use cases within a single, high-performance environment. Lily Liu presented compelling metrics, noting that Solana ranks number one in application revenue, boasts the highest developer community growth rate, and has the highest volume of new asset issuance. With a throughput (excluding vote transactions) exceeding 1,000 TPS and transaction costs as low as $0.0005, Solana’s performance is now comparable to traditional finance giants like Visa and Nasdaq.

The cornerstone of Solana's vision is the belief that "Everything is Tokenizable." This includes native crypto assets, traditional financial assets valued at over $500 trillion, and entirely new assets like game collectibles. By tokenizing these assets and making them tradeable, usable, and collateralizable on the blockchain, Solana seeks to create "markets for everything."

Furthermore, Liu heavily emphasized the strategic importance of the Chinese/Asian market, noting the region's historical leadership in payment systems and Super App development. Solana has significantly invested in supporting its Chinese developer ecosystem and seeks further collaboration in key sectors: Payments, DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks), and AI. This localized strategy reflects the belief that Solana can achieve the massive scale seen in global tech giants like Amazon or PayPal, positioning itself as a core foundational protocol for the digital financial world.