According to @deanmlittle, their team optimized onchain programs down to the last compute unit using hand-rolled assembly and called for a polycentric, gatekeeper-free development roadmap to accelerate decentralized innovation. Source: twitter.com/deanmlittle/status/1960032665996050604 Compute Units are the Solana runtime’s meter of program execution, and users can attach a compute-unit price as a priority fee; lowering CU directly reduces fee spend for the same inclusion priority. Source: docs.solana.com Because transactions are constrained by compute budgets and overall block capacity, CU-efficient code fits more work into the same capacity, improving throughput efficiency for onchain activity. Source: docs.solana.com For traders on Solana DeFi, fewer CU per swap or arbitrage route lowers required priority fees to achieve target latency, directly impacting execution costs and slippage control. Source: docs.solana.com