Solana’s ecosystem gather around an updated vision that its architects call the “Internet Capital Markets” decentralized, high-performance foundation for the next generation of financial applications for the chain.
While the network has long focused on increasing the bandwidth and cutting latency, its latest timetable dives deep into the market microstructure structure and argues that the next leap forward lies in providing applications granular control over transaction execution.
The roadmap, which was the coautor of the Leaders of the Solana Foundation, Anza, Jito Labs, DoubleZero, Operation and Multicoin Capital, centers on application -controlled execution (ACE), which will provide smart contracts Millisecond level Authority over transaction sequencing.
“In our conversations with teams across the ecosystem, market microstruct structure is the only most important problem in Solana today,” wrote the authors.
The new roadmap, which was published on Thursday by Anza, a core contributor to Solana Blockchain, outlines six critical Tradeoff dimensions: Privacy vs. Transparency, Speedbumps vs. unobstructed trade, inclusion vs. Finality vs. latency time, Colocation vs. Geographical decentralization, Makers-FIRST vs. Takeers-first priorities and flexible vs. meaningful architecture.
They claim that Solana rather than enforcing a one-size-pass-all protocol will focus on building its infrastructure where developers can experiment with these trade-offs in production.
With that, the network will roll out a number of initiatives across short, medium and long -term timelines. In the short term, Jito Labs’ Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM), which the team announced on Monday, is a “transaction treatment system that provides Solana validators, dealers and applications powerful new tools to improve performance.” BAM, who will go live at the end of the month, will aim to bring privacy and transparency to trade in chain, allowing builders to implement Central Limit Order Books (CLOBS), which competes with centralized exchanges.
Anza “works at the same time to improve the reliability of transaction landing with the goal of causing transactions to land in the same slot reliably,” the team wrote.
In the medium term, as the authors define as the next three to nine months, projects such as DoubleZero, a custom fiber network designed to reduce latency while increasing bandwidth, and Alpendeglow, Solana’s new consensus protocol to shrink blocking finality from 12.8 seconds to just 150 milliseconds, will go live. Both aim to improve Solana’s current network.
In the long term, which means through the year 2027 and in the future, Solana will aim to implement several simultaneous leaders (MCL) and ACE to support the most fluid in chain markets.
These upgrades relate to the limitations of the “single leadership problem” where a validator controls transaction inclusion and enables more validators to suggest transactions simultaneously, mitigating censorship and manipulation. With transactions sorted by priority fees, applications can then define custom execution logic, such as cancellation of prioritization or auctions in the block.
MCL allows Solana to take up global market information in real time, allowing smart contracts to respond instantly to events from different regions such as New York and Tokyo, the blog said. This architecture will form the technical backbone of what the Solana ecosystem thinks will be the decentralized global synchronized financial system.
“In other words, Solana will offer tools for internet capital markets that are unique to decentralized blockchains and cannot be replicated by centralized competitors,” the authors wrote.
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