Solana’s role in digital-asset market infrastructure expanded through higher trading activity, faster-processing upgrades and growth in tokenized assets. Fidelity Digital Assets said Solana represented approximately 15% of the exchange trades in its 2026 comparison, up from 0.30% in 2022, and briefly exceeded the New York Stock Exchange in weekly executions. The comparison counted trades rather than dollar value and contrasted decentralized spot exchange activity with traditional venues trading different instruments under different rules. Fidelity cited slot times near 400 milliseconds, a planned 200-millisecond target, a 66% increase in maximum block capacity from 60 million to 100 million compute units and Alpenglow, a consensus upgrade targeting transaction finality near 150 milliseconds. A Solana Foundation roundup said the final stage of SIMD-0525 reduced target slot times from 400 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds on October 9, 2026, while reporting an October 21 Alpenglow mainnet launch; a separate account dated that launch to Nov. 6. Fidelity also noted an independent October 23 measurement of median finality near 404 milliseconds, above the target. Solana said monthly tokenized-asset trading grew from below $100 million to nearly $5 billion, while the Foundation roundup reported $5 billion in real-world assets on Solana during October, approximately $60 billion in decentralized-exchange trading volume and 14 million stablecoin-holding addresses. Solana-based perpetual futures processed more than $590 billion in notional volume over the preceding 12 months. Fidelity cautioned that trading activity and related revenue depend on market conditions, demand for priority execution and sustained network performance.