Solana has released the "Internet Capital Markets" roadmap, focusing on application-driven execution.

On July 24th, the Solana Foundation disclosed the "Internet Capital Markets" roadmap. This roadmap was jointly authored by team members from the Solana Foundation, Anza, Jito Labs, DoubleZero, Drift, and Multicoin Capital, with application control execution serving as its core. The roadmap outlined six key trade-offs: the balance between Privacy and Transparency, the contrast between Throttling and Unthrottled Transactions, the trade-offs among Inclusivity, Finality, and Latency, the choice between Hosted and Geographically Distributed, the difference between Maker-First and Taker-First Priority, and the trade-off between Flexibility and Opinionated Architecture. In the short term, the Jito Labs team announced on Monday its Blockchain Assembly Market (BAM). BAM is a "transaction processing system" that provides powerful new tools for Solana validators, traders, and applications to enhance performance. BAM is set to launch at the end of this month, aiming to bring privacy and transparency to on-chain transactions and enabling builders to deploy a Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) that can compete with centralized exchanges. In the medium term (defined by the author as the next three to nine months), some projects will become operational. For example, DoubleZero (a custom fiber optic network aimed at reducing latency and increasing bandwidth) and Alpenglow (Solana's new consensus protocol designed to reduce block finality time from 12.8 seconds to just 150 milliseconds). Both projects are intended to enhance Solana's existing network. Looking further into the future, by 2027 and beyond, Solana will focus on implementing Multi Concurrent Leaders (MCL) and ACE to support the most liquid on-chain markets.