Solana foundation has exemplified their 2027 roadmap titled as market microstructures that outline major issues with the chain. The foundation has created a long and elaborate roadmap till 2027 to make Solana the foundational layer for Internet Capital Markets (ICM).
The term ICM was coined by one of the members of Solana, Akshay. This term takes major areas like entities, currencies, and cultures into its tokenization fold. The term ICM itself refers to a global accessible ledger for the users of the world.
According to Solana’s newly released “Internet Capital Markets Roadmap,” shared with CoinDesk, the project’s “original mission” was to build the “decentralized backbone” for these markets
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The ICM paper read,
“Increasing bandwidth and reducing latency (IBRL) are absolutely necessary — but not sufficient to achieve this,” “The third pillar of Solana’s roadmap needs to address the intricacies of market microstructures.”
The roadmap revealed that the ideal market structure for ICM, and how it should differ from traditional finance, was previously unclear. Now, however, the ecosystem’s builders have agreed on a solution: Application-Controlled Execution (ACE). This new approach will empower smart contracts to manage their transaction ordering with millisecond precision.
Application-Controlled Execution: Proposed Solution To The Market Microstructure Problem
Market Microstructure can be resolved with application controlled execution that allows it to function in a flexible, high-performance transaction environment. This space is different and more diverse than traditional finance. The 2027 roadmap proposes to introduce multiple architecture based solutions to accommodate market microstructure on Solana Mainnet.
In the next three months, Jito’s BAM Block Assembly Marketplace (BAM) transaction processing system will go live. This will create a seamless experience for users on the Solana blockchain. The BAM testnet is set to go live soon.
In the meantime, the chain is testing a new development, DoubleZero is a specialized peer-to-peer fiber network built to directly replace the public internet for all Solana transactions. This development is already being tested on the testnet with 100 validators with 3% staked on mainnet. This update will have a full launch in mid September, 2025.
This comes after Solana’s recent network upgrade, which boosted block capacity by 20% to 60 million compute units. Solana’s unprecedented growth is majorly due to the memecoin revolution and a striking developer and builders ecosystem.
