A billion dollars in real-world assets now live on Solana—that number speaks volumes about actual utility. When real assets show up at scale like this, it's not because the chain got lucky. They settle where things just work. Speed matters less in theory; execution matters everything in practice. The TPS wars become kind of irrelevant when you've got genuine capital flowing in. Solana's architecture handles what matters: clean settlement, minimal friction, real throughput when it counts.