Synchronize state as fast as physics allow
Why latency is the only metric merchants actually care about.
For fifty years, the world’s money ran on rails designed when “fast” meant a mainframe finishing its nightly batch. ACH, SWIFT, card networks — infrastructure stapled together with EDI formats older than the engineers debugging them. Meanwhile a five-year-old chain closes blocks in 400 milliseconds and a Jump-built validator just casually demoed a million TPS across four continents.
Toly had the cleanest line in the space: Solana isn’t designed for maximum throughput. It’s designed to synchronize state to as many boxes around the world as fast as physics allow.Every other chain is optimizing the wrong metric. Merchants don’t care about TPS — they care about when the money is theirs. In 2026 that answer is “before your buyer blinks.”