The team behind the Solana blockchain has released a long-term roadmap detailing their strategy to make the Solana blockchain the foundational layer for global internet capital markets (ICMs) by 2027.
ICMs, a term coined by former Solana Foundation core team member Akshay, refers to a “globally accessible ledger where entities, currencies, and cultures are tokenized,” allowing “anyone with an internet connection access to capital markets.”
Solana’s “original mission” was to build the “decentralized backbone” for ICMs, according to Solana’s new Internet Capital Markets Roadmap, shared with Coinpectra.
“Increasing bandwidth and reducing latency (IBRL) are absolutely necessary — but not sufficient to achieve this,” said the paper, which was published on Thursday. “The third pillar of Solana’s roadmap needs to address the intricacies of market microstructures.”
“Until now, it wasn’t clear how market microstructure for ICM should differ from TradFi,” the roadmap said, adding that the ecosystem’s builders have now consolidated around a shared vision: Application-Controlled Execution (ACE), aiming to give smart contracts “millisecond-level control over their own transaction ordering.”
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Market microstructure the “single most important problem in Solana”
Market microstructures are the “single most important problem in Solana today,” the roadmap added, describing ACE as a key solution to building a flexible, high-performance transaction environment that diverges from traditional finance.
Solana’s 2027 roadmap proposes multiple architecture improvements to enable a “flexible market microstructure” on the mainnet.
In the next three months, the roadmap proposes the launch of Jito’s Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM) transaction processing system, which aims to give validators and traders new tools to “improve performance and create value.” The BAM testnet is set to launch in the next few days.
In the medium term, the roadmap highlights the rollout of DoubleZero, a dedicated peer-to-peer fiber network designed to replace the public internet for Solana transactions. The network is already in testnet with over 100 validators and 3% of mainnet stake and is scheduled for full launch by mid-September.
These developments follow Solana’s recent network upgrade, which increased block capacity by 20% to 60 million compute units. Further throughput increases are planned before the end of 2025.
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