Lily Liu | President, Solana Foundation | “Crypto is an economy built from the ground up" | BBW 2024

Risk warning: Virtual Asset prices can be extremely volatile. The value of your investment may go down or up and you may lose some or all of the amount invested. You are solely responsible for your investment decisions. Binance is not liable for any trading losses you may incur and your investment does not benefit from any form of financial protection. Lily Liu is an operator and investor focused on the blockchain industry. Lily is the President of the Solana Foundation and Co Founder of Anagram. Lily has a background as a CFO and operating executive in the US, China, and throughout emerging markets. Previously, Lily co-founded Earn.com which was acquired by Coinbase in 2018. She was also the CFO of the Chinaco Healthcare Corporation, where she built a 500-bed private hospital in China. Lily also worked at KKR in New York as well as McKinsey in New York and Beijing. Lily received a BA in Economics and International Relations from Stanford, and studied East Asian Studies at Harvard. In this interview, she shares her journey from early Bitcoin adoption to her work building a vibrant community around blockchain. Reflecting on Solana’s unique technology and its powerful developer base, Lily emphasizes that blockchain innovation is as much about people and culture as it is about tech. She finds inspiration in Dubai’s rapid growth, likening it to the spirit of community building in crypto.