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For a while, the pitch of the Solana has been on the bandwidth and latency lever.
However, as evidenced by the limitations of high-frequency trading systems and the frequently uneven performance of existing Onchain Order Books, high throughput and subsecond finality alone are not enough to support the future of the global market.
It may sound counterintuitive to a chain built on speed, but it is now emerging as the core paper on a new community-written roadmap that lays out the way Solana becomes the backbone of the Internet capital market.
Released last week, this new roadmap was co-authored by Anatoly Jacovenko (Solana Lab), Max Restnik (Anza), Lucas Bruder (Zito Lab), Austin Federa (Double Zero), Chris Heaney (Drift) and Kyle Samani (Multicine Capital).
They argue that in addition to resolving bandwidth and latency, networks must also consider the microstructure of the market.
Solana wants to be the perfect place to build, not just for liquidity and scale, but also for the custom market itself. To do this, you need to allow your application to control rules for its own transaction sequence.
The roadmap proposes a shift towards implementation of application control (ACE). This is a model that provides a model in which smart contracts can neatly control the order and solution of transactions.
Ace breaks with the norm of a single leader in favor of a programmable execution environment and multiple simultaneous verification devices.
When combined with infrastructure upgrades such as Jito’s Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM), DoubleZero Fiber Network and upcoming Alpenglow Consensus Engine, Solana Apps can quickly define custom order matching rules designed to rival Wall Street systems.
BAM, which will be deployed in late July, will allow apps to integrate custom sequence logic. Effectively delivers today’s Ace through a distributed, TEE-driven network. Turn your Solana Blockspace into a programmable sandbox. There, developers can ship tailored order flow logic without having to fork clients or cut BD transactions.
DoubleZero currently lives in a testnet with over 100 validators and 3% of mainnet stakes, reducing latency and jitter across the network by replacing the public internet with a multicast fiber backbone. It is expected to be live on the main net in mid-September.