Solana Unveils Internet Capital Markets Roadmap Centered on Application-Controlled Execution

According to Jinse Finance, the Solana Foundation has released the "Internet Capital Markets" roadmap. This roadmap, co-authored by members from the Solana Foundation, Anza, Jito Labs, DoubleZero, Drift, and Multicoin Capital, centers on application-controlled execution and outlines six key trade-off dimensions: privacy versus transparency, speed bumps versus unconstrained transactions, inclusivity and finality versus latency, host custody versus geographic decentralization, maker-priority versus taker-priority, and flexibility versus opinionated architecture. In the short term, the Jito Labs team announced its Block Assembly Market (BAM) on Monday—a transaction processing system that provides powerful new tools for Solana validators, traders, and applications to enhance performance. BAM, set to launch at the end of this month, aims to bring both privacy and transparency to on-chain transactions, allowing builders to deploy central limit order books (CLOBs) that can compete with centralized exchanges. In the medium term (defined by the authors as the next three to nine months), several projects will go live, such as DoubleZero—a custom fiber network designed to reduce latency and increase bandwidth—and Alpenglow, Solana’s new consensus protocol aimed at reducing block finality from 12.8 seconds to just 150 milliseconds. Both projects are intended to enhance Solana’s existing network. In the long term, through 2027 and beyond, Solana will focus on implementing Multi-Concurrent Leaders (MCL) and ACE to support the most liquid on-chain markets.