BlockBeats News, February 11 — Former Multicoin co-founder Kyle Samani predicts that over the next 18 months, the microstructure improvements in the Solana on-chain market will surpass any other period in cryptocurrency history, with highlights including:
Alpenglow: A major upcoming consensus mechanism upgrade for Solana, one of the largest protocol-level changes in Solana’s history. It significantly simplifies consensus logic, reducing block finalization time from approximately 12 seconds to about 100-150 milliseconds, while removing old components like Proof of History and Tower BFT, and introducing block propagation and voting mechanisms to provide ultra-low latency infrastructure for high-frequency financial applications.
ACE (Application Control Execution): A key innovation in Solana’s core roadmap. Unlike traditional blockchains where transaction ordering is fully controlled by validators/block producers, ACE allows smart contracts/applications to determine transaction order, settlement logic, and priority. This enables DeFi applications on Solana to customize their own market microstructure, such as order matching rules and anti-MEV mechanisms. Allowing each DEX or Perp protocol to have its own trading engine is central to realizing internet-scale capital markets.
MCL (Multi-Leader Concurrency Block Production): Future Solana upgrades will enable multiple leaders to propose blocks simultaneously, significantly increasing throughput, reducing latency, and improving transaction finality and censorship resistance.
PropAMMs (Proprietary Automated Market Makers): Unlike traditional public AMMs (such as Raydium and Orca’s constant product pools), PropAMMs are privately deployed by professional market makers or institutions, using real-time price oracles to update quotes and actively manage liquidity. They typically do not accept permissionless deposits, offering extremely low slippage and deeper liquidity. Currently, PropAMMs account for over 60% of Solana DEX trading volume, greatly transforming on-chain market structure and bringing prices closer to CEX levels.
Aggregators, such as Jupiter and Dflow, aggregate liquidity from multiple DEXs, AMMs, and PropAMMs to find the optimal execution path, providing the lowest slippage and best prices for users.
Conditional Liquidity: A new liquidity provisioning mechanism where liquidity is no longer an unconditional “passive pool,” but can only be used when certain conditions are met (e.g., orders endorsed by trusted front-end applications or non-toxic order flows). This mainly prevents market makers from being sniped, encouraging tighter spreads, ultimately leading to better trading prices and deeper liquidity.
Overall improvements to SVM and the scheduler: including computational unit optimization, asynchronous program execution (APE), and scheduling algorithm upgrades, making programs run faster, more resource-efficient, and supporting higher concurrency. SVM is Solana’s smart contract execution environment; these enhancements directly improve on-chain program performance and provide the foundation for complex financial applications.
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