Among projects deeply cultivated in the Solana ecosystem, most focus on a single pain point, either enhancing performance or providing liquidity, but struggle to break the 'performance-asset-consumption' disconnection dilemma. Solayer, centered on 'hardware acceleration', connects the performance breakthroughs of InfiniSVM, the asset activation of sSOL and sUSD, and the consumption landing of the Emerald Card. This not only fills the core gaps in the Solana ecosystem but also builds a complete value chain from technology to practicality with solid data of 350 million TVL and over 104,500 users, making it one of the few 'full-stack practitioners' in Web3 infrastructure.

1. InfiniSVM: More than just fast, reconstructing the underlying logic of Solana's performance foundation

Solayer's technological core, InfiniSVM, is not merely pursuing a 'TPS number competition' but provides 'deployable and reusable' hardware solutions to address Solana's current performance bottleneck of 10,000 TPS, fundamentally changing the operational efficiency of the ecosystem:

The key breakthrough lies in the dual-drive of 'hardware offloading + parallel architecture' - by using InfiniBand switches (100Gbps bandwidth) and RDMA technology, high-frequency computational modules such as transaction verification and data transmission are moved from general servers to FPGA programmable chips, avoiding operating system scheduling losses. The actual measured transaction latency has been compressed to 0.8-1.2 milliseconds, improving a thousand times over Solana's mainnet; additionally, through the design of 'multiple execution clusters', non-conflicting transactions are allocated to independent clusters for parallel processing. The test network has already stably achieved over 500,000 TPS, and as the number of clusters increases (planned to expand to 20 by the end of 2025), performance shows linear growth with no significant marginal losses.

The practical significance of this design far exceeds 'digital enhancement': for Solana's DeFi protocols, there is no need to reconstruct the code to connect to InfiniSVM. The settlement delay in high-concurrency scenarios has reduced from 2 seconds to 0.3 seconds, and the bad debt rate has decreased by 90%; for high-frequency trading users, the 'window closing risk' of cross-pool arbitrage has significantly reduced, with the transaction success rate increasing from 75% to 99.8%, truly enabling Solana to handle transaction volumes at the scale of traditional finance.

2. sSOL+sUSD: Activate the vitality of Solana assets, linking a two-way bridge between retail and institutional investors

Solayer's asset design precisely addresses the dual pain points of '7 billion SOL locked in staking' and 'difficulty for institutional funds to enter' in the Solana ecosystem, forming an asset closed loop that benefits both retail and institutional investors:

For retail users, sSOL (liquid re-staking token) achieves 'staking without locking' - users can stake SOL or mSOL, stSOL to receive sSOL pegged 1:1 to SOL, enjoying a 6.5% base staking yield while being able to trade on AMM like Jupiter and use protocols like Solend for collateralized borrowing. Currently, the liquidity pool size of sSOL on Jupiter has reached $52 million, with an average daily trading volume exceeding $3 million, effectively activating idle staked assets.

For institutional funds, sUSD (stablecoin backed by US Treasury bonds) provides a dual guarantee of 'compliance + yield' - 100% supported by short-term US Treasury bonds, allowing users to check their holding proof in real-time, with a 4% annualized yield far exceeding traditional money market funds (0.2%-0.5%), and without the risk of 'algorithmic explosions'. By August 2025, sUSD's TVL exceeded $31 million, with 23% coming from traditional asset management institutions, becoming the first stablecoin in the Solana ecosystem to scale up institutional fund acceptance, injecting long-term incremental funds into the ecosystem.

3. Emerald Card: Leveraging hardware performance to make crypto spending 'easy and rewarding'

Most crypto payment cards remain at the stage of 'just being able to swipe', while Solayer's Emerald Card, through deep integration with InfiniSVM, achieves an upgraded experience of 'smooth spending + instant earning', truly bringing crypto out of exchanges:

Its core advantage lies in 'hardware-level real-time support' - users can spend SOL, sSOL, or sUSD transferred to the Emerald Card at over 40 million Visa/Mastercard merchants worldwide. The spending instructions are routed directly to InfiniSVM's 'payment-specific cluster', eliminating the need to queue with other on-chain transactions. The average settlement time is 1.2 seconds, with a success rate of 99.9%, far exceeding the industry average of 85%; even more innovative is the 'earn while you spend' mechanism, where every dollar spent earns 0.01 $LAYER, with rewards automatically credited within 10 seconds, with no expiration or redemption thresholds.

Based on the current price of $LAYER ($0.55-0.62), users who spend an average of $1500 per month can earn an additional $9-12 worth of tokens each month; if LAYER returns to its historical high of $2.55, monthly rewards could reach $38. This 'the more you use, the more you earn' design has led to an activation rate of 88% for the Emerald Card, with 70% of users using it more than 5 times a month, truly transforming crypto from an 'investment product' to a 'daily necessity'.

Summary: The ecological closed loop is taking shape, and the value gaps are waiting to be explored

The core value of Solayer lies in the fact that it is not an isolated technology or product, but a critical link connecting the 'performance-asset-consumption' of the Solana ecosystem - InfiniSVM addresses 'speed' issues, sSOL and sUSD resolve 'asset vitality' issues, and Emerald Card tackles 'ease of use' issues, with the three working together to create an irreplicable ecological barrier.

Currently, the price of $LAYER is in the range of $0.55-$0.62, down 75% from the historical high of $2.55, but the ecosystem's TVL has reached $350 million, with a market cap/TVL ratio (0.37-0.45) significantly lower than the average level of Web3 infrastructure (0.6-0.8), and backed by top-tier capital such as Polychain Capital and Binance Labs. With the deployment of InfiniSVM's mainnet achieving over 1 million TPS and cross-chain expansion to Ethereum ecosystem, Solayer is expected to further consolidate its position in the core infrastructure of the Solana ecosystem. Its current value gap may gradually be filled as the ecosystem continues to develop.