Solana Releases Roadmap for Internet capital markets Centered on Application Control Execution

The Solana Foundation has released the "Internet Capital Markets" roadmap, which was co-authored by Solana Foundation, Anza, Jito Labs, DoubleZero, Drift, and Multicoin Capital, and focuses on application control execution. It outlines six key trade-offs: privacy and transparency, speed bumps and unfettered transactions, inclusivity and finality and latency, colocation and geographic decentralization, maker-first and recipient-first priorities, and flexibility and opinionated architecture.
In the short term, the Jito Labs team on Monday announced its Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM), a "transaction processing system that provides Solana validators, traders, and applications with powerful new tools to enhance performance." BAM, which will go live by the end of this month, is designed to bring privacy and transparency to on-chain transactions, allowing builders to deploy a central limit order book (CLOB) that competes with centralized exchanges.
In the medium term (defined by the authors as the next three to nine months), a number of projects will come online, such as DoubleZero (a custom optical network designed to reduce latency and increase bandwidth) and Alpenglow (Solana's new consensus protocol, designed to reduce block finalization time from 12.8 seconds to just 150 milliseconds). Both projects aim to enhance Solana's existing network. In the long term, i.e. by 2027 and beyond, Solana will work on implementing Multi-Concurrency Leader (MCL) and ACE to support the most liquid on-chain markets.