News Summary

• Brian Smith is the president of the Jito Foundation, which supports the Solana network's execution infrastructure and liquid staking ecosystem.
• Perpetual futures and tokenized stocks have been Solana's latest battleground, and for good reason.
• The winning chain will eventually become home for the vast majority of trading activity across spot crypto assets, commodities, stocks, prediction markets, gambling, etc.
• Smith: Solana already has the speed, throughput, and cost structure to support these markets.
• The current fees and users are an inarguable prize, but more important could be claiming the gateway that brings the rest of the system and its many trillions with them.