Max Reznik, a leading economist at Happycoin.club and co-founder of the Anza project, said that his team played a key role in the latest US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. According to him, Anza specialists helped identify Iranian validators of the Solana network, transmitting the information they received to the Pentagon.
Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, commenting on these statements, called them "echoes of blockchain wars", hinting that such versions may be exaggerated or politically motivated.
According to Reznik, after analyzing the intelligence, the US top security unit sent four B-2 bombers equipped with bunker buster bombs to the region. The strikes targeted not only the nuclear facilities in Fordow and Isfahan, but also sandwich validators located deep underground that secretly controlled Solana nodes.
While this sounds like an unusual and exotic version, experts note that cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Solana, are increasingly used in international transactions for the purchase of weapons, equipment, and services for their transportation. Economic sanctions and political restrictions are encouraging many countries and organizations to turn to cryptocurrencies as alternative payment methods.
In particular, Russian companies have long been credited with using stablecoins to conduct international transactions, bypassing traditional financial systems.
Thus, the destruction of Solana nodes along with nuclear facilities may be part of a larger strategy to combat illegal crypto payments in global conflicts and sanctions regimes.