# Solanas Inventor Disagrees with State Crypto Holdings
Solana’s co-creator, Anatoly Yakovenko, has expressed disagreement with the concept of US crypto holdings suggested by Trump. He thinks this contradicts the decentralization idea by handing authority to the state.
Yakovenko clarified his view on Trump’s intention to form a state digital currency holding in a fresh declaration. This holding would have significant coins like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Cardano (ADA), and Solana (SOL). He also verified that he wasn’t asked if SOL would be in the holding.
Yakovenko mentioned, “Avoid holdings, because if you wish to eliminate decentralization, you place the state in control.”
If digital currency holdings are truly needed, according to the Solana co-creator, they should be formed based on “unbiased and quantifiable requirements” to assure impartiality and decentralization for everyone involved.
Yakovenko stated, “I am indifferent to what they [the measures] are; they could even be organized so that only Bitcoin fulfills them right now; they must be objectively quantifiable and logically justified.”
He really prefers digital currency holdings handled by state governments over a vast state holding, since he views state holdings as a “safeguard against the Federal Reserve making errors.” According to statistics from Bitcoin holding monitoring organizations, at least 26 US states have presented legislation relating to Bitcoin strategic holdings.
Yakovenko had not verified whether he would attend the White House digital currency summit on March 7th at the time of writing. Meanwhile, many other digital currency industry executives, including Strategic Chairman Michael Saylor, Kraken CEO Arjun Sethi, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, have verified their presence.
As per a report that surfaced earlier in the day from crypto reporter Laura Shin, unnamed sources informed her that Garlinghouse had suggested that President Trump think about adding Solana to the crypto reserve in order to make Ripple’s addition “appear more justifiable.” Yakovenko responded when questioned about the veracity of this claim by stating that nobody had inquired about including Solana in Trump’s national crypto reserve, and he had not made the recommendation.
