Solayer (LAYER)

• Solayer is 

  • scaling Solana TPS with stake weight quality of service, creating the first Solana restaking standard. 

  • a hardware-accelerated blockchain infinitely scaling the SVM to achieve high throughput and near-zero latency. 

  • powered by InfiniBand technology and a multi-execution model to increase bandwidth and reduce latency. 

• Token use cases

  • Governance [current]

    • Protocol upgrades, such as adding supported assets

    • Treasury management, such as diversification

    • Key ecosystem initiatives, such as grants 

  • Participate in Proof of Stake consensus for Decentralized Verification to earn block rewards [future] 

    • By working to verify proofs securing Solayer, verifiers get rewarded with the Solayer token 

  • Gas token to transact on the Solayer network [future] 

    • Half of the gas fee generated would be burnt, hence deflationary 

• Products:

  • Solayer InfiniSVM: highly-performant, interconnected executor clusters to infinitely scale the SVM, powered by Infiniband technology:

    • Offloading blockchain components onto dedicated hardware. 

    • Scaling the single execution SVM machine into a multi-executor machine on demand as applications need it.

    • The execution machines will be connected by InfiniBand, a high performance computing (HPC) networking technology for supercomputers to enable hyperfast data transfer and communication. 

    • Infiniband uses RDMA to allow for direct memory access, bypassing the CPU, which reduces latency 

  • Solana Restaking via Stake-weight Quality of Service(QoS): 

    • sSOL stake delegated to Solana dApps increases their network bandwidth and secures blockspace for their transactions to be included. 

  • Treasury-Bill backed stablecoin: 

    • sUSD that is backed by US Treasury-Bill interest yield and offers additional utility to secure decentralized systems 

Key metrics (as of 11 Feb 2025)

1. What is Solayer?

• Project Overview 

  • Solayer is the first restaking protocol on Solana scaling dApp TPS with stake-weight quality of service and hardware optimization 

  • Solayer is developing InfiniSVM, a hardware-accelerated blockchain that offloads blockchain components onto programmable chips to target 1MM+ TPS and 100+ Gbps network bandwidth, enabling near-zero latency use cases. 

  • InfiniSVM leverages SDN and RDMA to infinitely scale a single execution machine to multi-execution machines, as needed by applications.  

• Project Mission

  • Solayer’s mission is to scale the SVM and blockchain more generally. The thesis is that software scaling has reached its limit and no amount of more or better code can overcome the hardware limitations that currently exist on most chains. 

  • The world of blockchains will not only manage millions of real-time, human-initiated transactions, but also support the immense bandwidth required for trillions of agents operating at an unprecedented scale in the history of crypto and the Internet.

  • Solayer’s vision is to build the future of a highly scalable and decentralized monolithic world computer 

• Project Value Proposition

  • Hardware Offloading

    • Solayer offloads almost all stages, including scheduling, signature verification, and deduplication, to hardware like programmable switches and SmartNIC. The "megaleader" architecture involves pre-execution clusters feeding into programmable switches for sequencing, then to an FPGA NIC using InfiniBand when more complex operations like re-execution are needed, optimizing for performance.

  • Wallet Agnostic/Chain Agnostic

    • InfiniSVM allows wallet-agnostic interactions across various Solana-compatible wallets like Phantom, Solflare, and Backpack, aiming for infinite scalability on Solana's mainnet. Users will not need to download new wallets or add a new chainID.

  • Multi-executor:

    • Solayer scales from single to multiple execution clusters using Infiniband for high-speed data transfer, enhancing transaction throughput and reducing latency through parallel processing.

  • Fully-integrated vertical stack

    • Solayer has developed a fully-integrated vertical stack to power the InfiniSVM, from sSOL restaking to sUSD to a Debit Card, users can earn and transact seamlessly onchain and in real life through integrated Solayer systems and denominated assets. 

• Project Key Highlights 

  • InfiniSVM: 

    • Hardware-accelerated SVM blockchain designed to handle 1M+ TPS and 10+ Gbps.

  • Solana swQoS restaking: 

    • Solayer gained over $500MM+ in TVL with 295,000+ unique depositors and grew to be a top 10 DeFi protocol on Solana. Solayer also launched multiple partnerships with leading exchanges and launched one of the largest AVS airdrops with Sonic. sSOL restaking is consistently one of the highest-yielding LST/LRTs thanks to constant hardware optimization.

  • sUSD: 

    • The first RWA-backed synthetic stablecoin on Solana backed by U.S. Treasury Bills. Quickly grew to over $32MM+ in TVL with strong demand from institutions and DeFi partners.

  • Savings Account: 

    • A permissionless, on-chain experience that mirrors the user experience of modern digital banks. Solayer is building a vertical infrastructure stack that combines financial tools like staking, spending, earning, and managing assets within a single, user-friendly ecosystem.

  • Debit Card: 

    • The Solayer Debit Card is a premier metal card that is fully non-custodial and allows holders to seamlessly transact with their on-chain balance on both the InfiniSVM and Solana. Currently over 40,000 participants in the community sale are eligible to receive one, with further growth expected over the year as Solayer releases more tiers and benefits.

• Existing Products

  • Solayer Network: highly-performant, interconnected executor clusters to infinitely scale the SVM network, powered by Infiniband technology. 

  • Solana Stake-weight Quality of Service Scaling (QoS): sSOL delegation to dApps interacting with Solana to increase network bandwidth and blockspace. 

    • Solana swQoS restaking with $500MM+ TVL.

    • >295,000 unique depositors.

    • Consistently the highest yielding Solana validator thanks to constant hardware optimisation.

  • Treasury-Bill backed stablecoin: sUSD that is backed by US Treasury-Bill interest yield and offers additional utility to secure decentralized systems 

    • $32MM+ sUSD TVL in less than three months

  • Solayer debit card: Solayer offers a full stack platform for sSOL and sUSD holders with real world utility, in geographically available countries. 

2. Technical Infrastructure

InfiniSVM - "Blockchain on Chip"

Hardware Offloading:

Solayer offloads almost all stages, including scheduling, signature verification, and deduplication, to hardware like programmable switches and SmartNIC. The "megaleader" architecture involves pre-execution clusters feeding into programmable switches for sequencing, then to an FPGA NIC using Infiniband when more complex operations like re-execution are needed, optimizing for performance.

Wallet Agnostic/Chain Agnostic:

InfiniSVM allows wallet-agnostic interactions across various Solana-compatible wallets like Phantom, Solflare, and Backpack, aiming for infinite scalability on Solana's mainnet. Users don't need to download new wallets or add a new chainID.

Multi-Executor:

Solayer scales from single to multiple execution clusters using Infiniband for high-speed data transfer, enhancing transaction throughput and reducing latency through parallel processing.

Whitepaper: https://whitepaper-101797961016.us-central1.run.app/variants/solayer_infinisvm_082.pdf

3. Token sales and economics

Token Distribution

Token Release Schedule

4. Roadmap & Updates 

Current Roadmap

2025 Roadmap

2025 Q1 Incentivized testnet alpha 

Goals:

- 1 Gbps chain throughput

- Solayer hardware optimized validator client 

- Emerald Debit Card - full vertical integration from sSOL (hardware-optimized native SOL) to sUSD (RWA Treasury) to Debit Card (real life spending)

2025 Q2 Testnet Beta

Goals:

- 5 Gbps chain throughput

- Bridge with Solana

- Proof of concept for verifier fraud proof

2025 Q3 Testnet Gamma

Goals:

- 6 Gbps chain throughput

- Integration with Solana

- Fraud proof with verifier staking and voting

- Chain native LLM inference endpoint

- Low-jitter global block propagation

2025 Q4 mainnet-Ektaxis

Goals:

- 10 Gbps chain throughput

- Use $LAYER as gas fee

- Chain native LLM inference

- Fraud proof with verifier staking and voting

Commercial and Business Development Progress

• Integrations with over 45+ ecosystem partners on product 

• Binance - Worked with Binance to launch BNSOL with additional staking and AVS rewards. Subsequent partnerships with Binance Wallet and Binance Earn to allow direct deposit + other joint campaigns.

• OKX - Partnered with OKX to integrate Solayer into their web3 wallet.

• Bybit - Worked with Bybit to launch their official LST, BBSOL, and integrate Solayer as a launch partner to enable deposit and AVS incentives.

• Bitget - Launched BGSOL as the first exchange-backed LRT on Solana.

• OpenEden - OpenEden is a fully regulated and compliant RWA platform; Solayer partnered with them as the issuer of the T-Bills which back the sUSD stablecoin product. sUSD has grown to over $30MM TVL since launching late last year.

5. Community

Solayer has a global and highly engaged community. The primary community platforms are:

• Official Website:https://solayer.org/  

• Twitter: https://x.com/solayer_labs 

• Discord: https://discord.com/invite/solayerlabs  

• Telegram: https://t.me/solayer_discussion  

• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@solayer_labs 
  

Appendix

Link to current whitepapers: 

• Solayer Network 

• sUSD Litepaper

• Solayer Litepaper

• Token Dynamics 

$LAYER contract: LAYER4xPpTCb3QL8S9u41EAhAX7mhBn8Q6xMTwY2Yzc

Solayer Analytics: https://defillama.com/protocol/solayer#information