Solana Targets 2027 Internet Capital Market Leadership

• Solana's roadmap aims to solve blockchain inefficiencies and revolutionize global internet capital markets.
• Cutting-edge technologies like Application-Controlled Execution and Block Assembly Marketplace promise enhanced fairness and scalability.

On July 24, 2025, the Solana Foundation unveiled an ambitious roadmap in collaboration with Anza, Jito Labs, and DoubleZero. The foundation aims to position Solana as the foundational infrastructure for global internet capital markets (ICMs) by 2027. This initiative focuses on solving critical market microstructure challenges that currently hinder blockchain adoption.

Application-Controlled Execution (ACE) sits at the center of this transformative plan. This innovation gives on-chain applications control over transaction execution, replacing the traditional validator-driven system. As a result, ACE empowers applications to enforce customized execution rules, which helps combat issues like front-running and fosters a high-performance ecosystem for decentralized finance (DeFi).

Jito Labs’ Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM) is another pivotal development, pioneering a new transaction processing approach through a blockspace marketplace. BAM leverages Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to enable confidential pre-execution transaction ordering and reduce harmful Maximal Extractable Value (MEV). Jito Labs will launch a BAM testnet within a few weeks and plans for full integration by the end of August.

The roadmap also features DoubleZero, a specially designed peer-to-peer fiber network. DoubleZero overcomes public internet constraints to reduce latency, boost bandwidth, and minimize spam transactions, which will streamline Solana’s performance. Over 100 validators are currently validating DoubleZero on its testnet, and the team plans a full launch by mid-September.

These innovations build on Solana’s recent network upgrade, which increased block capacity by 25% to 60 million compute units. The team plans further improvements for late 2025. Looking forward, the roadmap outlines plans to introduce Multi-Concurrent Leaders (MCL) alongside ACE by 2027, which will enable the creation of highly liquid and efficient on-chain markets.

According to CoinMarketCap on July 24, at 16:08 UTC, Solana (SOL) was trading at $188.21, marking a -2.25% change in price over 24 hours.