Investors have poured more than $280 million into new 0 exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in just six trading days, with analysts now projecting as much as $5 billion in inflows over the next 1 Solana becomes a centerpiece of institutional portfolios, questions are mounting over whether its infrastructure can sustain high-frequency activity across ETFs, wallets, and consumer apps. Web3 infrastructure firm Alchemy said to meet this rising demand it has completely re-architected its Solana 2 overhaul aims to deliver near-zero downtime, faster responses, and greater throughput, ensuring institutional and retail users experience a seamless network even under heavy 3 week Solana appears to have shrugged off broader Fed-induced FUD, with policymakers reiterating that December rate cuts are “not a foregone conclusion” this 4 has opened the floodgates to $417 million in fresh capital for Solana’s ecosystem as a fresh touch point for 5 to gain regulated access to SOL staking 6 a week for $BSOL , besides the big volume, it led all crypto ETPs by a country mile in weekly flows with +$417m ($IBIT had a rare off week, it'll be back).
It also ranked it 16th in overall flows for the 7 time 8 — Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) November 1, 2025 Built for Scale and Speed Alchemy explains its Solana rebuild was the culmination of two years of collaboration with developers across the 9 alongside teams from Bags. fm, Solflare, and Robinhood, the company studied the real bottlenecks developers faced when accessing Solana data and processing 10 result is an all-new generation of RPC and Streaming APIs built specifically for 11 upgraded infrastructure delivers 20 times faster archive calls, 99.95% uptime, and double the throughput of its previous version. Alchemy’s engineering team has also improved the system to handle large data sets with greater reliability, enabling near-instant responses on transaction-heavy 12 result is faster user experiences on exchanges, wallets, and analytics platforms that depend on constant access to on-chain 13 the “Chewing Glass” Challenge Solana developers have long referred to the network’s complexity as “chewing glass” — a metaphor for the demanding technical environment they’ve embraced to build next-generation financial 14 Solana’s core protocol has matured, the surrounding tooling and infrastructure often struggled to keep pace.
Alchemy’s research found that many developers encountered recurring issues accessing historical data due to limitations in Bigtable-based RPC systems, which caused missing records, throttling, or incomplete data 15 forced teams to build complex workarounds that slowed iteration and inflated 16 new Solana architecture eliminates those constraints, dramatically accelerating heavy data methods such as getTransaction and getProgramAccounts while maintaining reliability under 17 for the Institutional Era With ETF adoption accelerating and Western Union preparing to launch a stablecoin on Solana in 2026, the chain is entering an institutional era where uptime and precision matter as much as 18 rebuilding Solana’s “plumbing” from the ground up, Alchemy has positioned the network to handle sustained institutional traffic and mass-market consumer applications without compromising 19 Solana’s ecosystem matures, Alchemy’s overhaul signals a crucial inflection point — one where the network evolves from “chewing glass” to powering finance at scale.
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