The Need for Real-Time Data on Solana: Latency, Scale, and Fidelity at Stake

“Better be first 99 percent of the time than second 100 percent of the time.” - Donald MacKenzie, in his book Trading at the Speed of Light Solana’s ultra-fast block times have creasted new possibilities for real-time blockchain apps, especially in trading, payments, and gaming. Today, Solana handles around $25 billion in daily spot trading volume, surpassing even Binance, the largest centralised exchange, which does about $15 billion in daily spot volume. Solana is leading the way in building a fast, scalable trading system on the blockchain.