Bankless · Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Significant protocol-level improvements on Solana have drastically enhanced network speed and execution over the past 18 months. These upgrades, combined with innovations like Prop AMMs, are making Solana a robust platform for complex financial activities.
“One is all the work going on there. And then I would say the other thing that led to execution improvements would definitely be the prop AMMs. And so... Yeah, those are just really efficient at expressing what the market maker wants to do. And they're kind of putting the market maker logic on chain. It's really, really cheap to update the pricing for that asset just because of the way it works.”
“So yeah, one is all the work going on there. And then I would say the other thing that led to execution improvements would definitely be the prop AMMs.”
“If you use the chain back then, it was just like a nightmare to use. Like transactions wouldn't land. Basically everyone was landing transactions through Jito because like the normal pipeline was just super, it was just buggy and like not good. And so there's been a ton of really good work at the core protocol layer.”