RT GM ＞|＜ (@0xsudogm)what’s also underappreciated are the second order effects of equity perps growing as a category- for protocols like Ethena, the AUM ceiling expands 30X as the OI TAM grows way beyond crypto- if price discovery starts happening with perps on weekends, this means more attention and hence capital will *have to* stay onchain to capture moves, a virtuous cycleonchain capital markets/decentralized nasdaq/asset layer/AWS for liquidity in its truest form ...

RT Lightspeed (@Lightspeedpodhq)How can Solana achieve its original decentralized Nasdaq thesis?@marcryptonio dives into why its performance, low latency, and scalability make it the best shot at powering global capital markets https://t.co/720ViIMtrO ...

Market Focus - Solana's ambition is to become a decentralized Nasdaq [1] - Trading venues are competing to attract order flow and capture spreads [1] Trading Volume - Over $890 billion (890,000,000,000) was traded in H1 2025 [1] Technology & Competitive Advantage - DFlowProtocol utilizes LaserStream to provide optimal pricing, tight spreads, and low latency routing [1]

"decentralized nasdaq" is not TPSwe know decentralized systems can't be faster than centralized onesdecentralized nasdaq is fundamentally about putting markets on the internetthe internet propagates bits globally at the speed of lightcrypto turns bits into marketsthe point of decentralized nasdaq is that in theory decentralized systems can create the same or even better priced markets than centralized onesthis is absurdly difficult, but it is possibleTPS is one factor but not the only one, many other things ...