BEFORE SOLANA,
THERE WAS LOOM.
The forgotten name behind Solana's earliest history.
THE RECEIPTS
LOOM WAS REAL.
An early version of Anatoly Yakovenko's Proof of History paper was titled:
“Loom: A new architecture for a high performance blockchain”
and used:
anatoly@loomprotocol.com
“Loom generates a Proof of History.”
THE NAME IS REAL.
THE LOGO ISN'T CONFIRMED.
The logo pictures being circulated on X right now are from
NEW POSTS / COMMUNITY PROJECTS,
so we absolutely should NOT call those the original Loom logo.
LOOM NAME
CONFIRMED
ORIGINAL LOOM LOGO
NOT FOUND
“Not found” means: not found in the historical evidence collected on this site.
We can verify the Loom name from the surviving whitepaper and historical material. We have not found sufficient primary evidence establishing the circulating logo as the original Solana-era Loom logo.
CIRCULATING IMAGE
NOT HISTORICALLY VERIFIED
FROM LOOM TO THE TRENCHES
SOLANA IS THE CHAIN OF DOGS.
Years after Loom became Solana, the chain developed one of crypto's strongest dog meme cultures.
LOOM MEMES
the timeline is writing the rest.