The team behind the Blockchain Solana network deleted a controversial advertising published on their X account after a huge reaction on political messaging on gender identity.
The announcement of more than two and a half minutes for the Solana Accelerate conference published on March 17 with the legend “America is back. The time to accelerate “represented a man as” America “in a therapy session which said that he had thoughts” on innovation “like crypto.
The therapist replies that he should do “something more productive, like offering a new sex” and later said that man should “focus on pronouns”.
As the conversation winds, the man switches on and embarks on a monologue in the middle of swollen patriotic music, saying that he wants to “build onchain and recover my place like the lighthouse of innovation” and wants to “invent technologies, not sexes” in an apparent excavation in progressive values.
Before its deletion, the announcement has been seen more than 1.2 million times and has accumulated more than 1,300 comments and 1,400 republication, the majority of which ridiculed it for its management of the identity between the sexes and to shed light on a highly divisor political problem.
“They brought him back because it injured their business, not because they thought it was bad,” Adam Cochran wrote to X 18 March.
I took them 9 hours to delete it.
In addition, all the main players in the Solana ecosystem suddenly suppress their tweets by promoting / supporting the announcement and RT’D and loved to be bad.
They approved it, supported and celebrated it.
They brought it back because it hurt … pic.twitter.com/kpmerdptcn
– Adam Cochran (Adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) March 18, 2025
Solana did not explain why he deleted the ad. The Solana Foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Sean O’Connor, Chief Exploitation of the Web Infrastructure Company 3, wrote on X: “It’s so damn of your deaf.”
“At a time when trans people are refused passports and being deleted by the government … Is that the announcement you have published?” He added.
During his first day at the White House, President Donald Trump revoked the executive decrees of Joe Biden aimed at preventing discrimination based on sex and sexual orientation.
He also signed an order recognizing only two sexes – men and women – and abandoned the option for Americans to choose “X” as sex on passports.
Doublezero’s chief of the operating, David McIntyre described the announcement of Solana “horrible” and asked why Solana had not “maintained the positive message instead of diving people and shedding light on serious cultural problems”.
Nicolas Pennie, the co-founder of the Solana Helius development platform, said on X that “the signaling of virtue will always be creaky, whatever political ideology”.
Others who initially supported the announcement also withdrew their support in the middle of the counterpoup.
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The co-founder of Multicoin Capital, Tushar Jain, wrote on X that he had deleted his initial post praising the announcement “after a reflection”.
He previously called the “daring and risky” announcement and said that former vice-president Kamala Harris played the role of the therapist was “the only thing that could have improved it”.
In his declaration of retraction, Jain said that it would have been more effective to “focus on deeper cultural war problems such as the failures of the world vision oppressed by the oppressor, and not surface culture war problems”, and the announcement could have sent a message “without alienating part of the public”.
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