In the Web3 ecosystem, Solana often lacks 'strong supportive roles' — industry-level scenarios struggle to land due to insufficient technology, individual users find it hard to retain due to scattered returns, and small and medium-sized enterprises face difficulties in expansion due to lack of funds. Most projects can only partially fill the gaps, while Solayer positions itself as a 'growth pillar' at its core, using InfiniSVM to support the technical foundation of industry-level scenarios, relying on sSOL+sUSD to meet the funding needs of small and medium-sized enterprises and individual users, and building deep connections between users and the ecosystem through the Emerald Card. Not only does it solidify its foundation with $350 million TVL and over 104,500 users, but it also enables the Solana ecosystem to transition from 'slow growth' to 'accelerated expansion' with its capabilities of 'omni-directional empowerment'.
1. InfiniSVM: Supporting industry-level scenarios, ensuring a stable technical base
Solana's industry-level scenarios (such as industrial IoT data on-chain, full-chain tracking of cross-border logistics) often stagnate due to 'insufficient technical capacity' — inadequate data throughput, excessive latency, and difficulty in ensuring security. Solayer's InfiniSVM does not merely enhance performance but builds a 'stable technical foundation' for these scenarios, addressing industrial pain points with hardware acceleration.
For industrial IoT scenarios, InfiniSVM has developed a 'high-frequency data real-time on-chain module': after a certain auto parts factory connects the operational data of production equipment (such as injection molding machines and testing instruments), data is generated every 100 milliseconds as a hardware-trusted snapshot, encrypted and put on-chain via FPGA chips, allowing the factory and downstream car manufacturers to view data in real-time, with the quality inspection dispute rate dropping from 8% to 0, and production efficiency increasing by 15% due to 'data transparency'.
For cross-border logistics scenarios, it optimizes 'multi-node data collaboration' capabilities: after connecting an international logistics company, container location, temperature and humidity data are signed by InfiniSVM hardware and synchronized in real-time between customs, storage, and distribution nodes, reducing customs clearance time from 72 hours to 12 hours, and the cargo loss rate dropped from 3% to 0.2%, lowering logistics costs by 20%.
This 'industry-level technology support' has shown tangible results: Currently, 10 industrial enterprises and 8 logistics service providers have connected to InfiniSVM. The on-chain landing efficiency of industry-level scenarios has increased threefold, and the technical failure rate has dropped from 5% to 0.3%, truly enabling Solana to undertake large-scale scenarios of the real economy.
2. sSOL+sUSD: Supporting funding needs, benefiting both small and medium-sized enterprises and individuals
In the Solana ecosystem, small and medium-sized enterprises lack 'low-threshold financing', while individual users lack 'stable and flexible income channels' — Solayer's sSOL+sUSD serves as a 'funding pillar', simultaneously supporting both types of needs, forming a bidirectional empowerment.
For small and medium-sized enterprises, sSOL is a 'lightweight financing tool': a cross-border e-commerce entrepreneur pledged 200 SOL to obtain 196 sSOL, retaining a 6.5% basic staking return, and could use sSOL to borrow $100,000 sUSD on Solend for procurement, reducing financing costs by 4 percentage points compared to traditional online loans, and monthly revenue grew by 30% due to 'funds in place'.
For individual users, sSOL+sUSD is a 'return combo': users stake SOL to obtain sSOL, and in addition to basic returns, they can borrow sUSD against sSOL for investment (4% APY) or provide liquidity on Jupiter for extra returns (8%-10% APY), with total annualized returns reaching 18%-24%. Currently, among 86,000 sSOL staking users, 60% are individual investors, with an average additional monthly return exceeding $200.
More critically is 'funding cycle support': small and medium-sized enterprises can buy back SOL and stake it as sSOL after making profits with sUSD, further expanding the financing limit; individual users can reinvest their investment income into sSOL staking, forming a positive cycle of 'enterprise expansion → user income → reinvestment'. As of August 2025, the sSOL re-staked TVL reached $186 million, and sUSD TVL reached $31 million, injecting continuous growing funding power into the ecosystem.
3. Emerald Card: Building user connections, ensuring retention and growth are solid
Web3 users often churn due to 'high ecological participation thresholds and difficult-to-perceive returns' — Solayer's Emerald Card acts like a 'user connection pillar', building a bridge between users and the ecosystem with 'low thresholds + high perceived returns', making retention and growth more robust.
First is 'low-threshold connection': users can transfer SOL, sSOL, or sUSD to the card to consume at over 40 million merchants worldwide, with InfiniSVM compressing settlement delays to 1.2 seconds and a success rate of 99.9%. No need to learn blockchain operations, 88% of 23,000 applicants activated their cards, and 70% spent more than 5 times a month.
Next is 'high perceived return connections': for every $1 spent, users receive 0.01 LAYER back, which can be directly traded or staked (8%-10% APY). Simultaneously, local merchants launch 'spend a certain amount to receive sSOL experience' promotions (1 sSOL, experience for 7 days), where a user spending $2,000 in a month not only receives 20 LAYER but also earns sSOL experience returns, with a total return exceeding $150.
Finally, there is 'community connection': card users can join the 'Emerald Community', participate in offline merchant store visits, and online ecosystem Q&A, where quality participants can earn $LAYER rewards. The community has over 15,000 monthly active users, and the ratio of users recommending new users reaches 35%, forming a 'user brings user' growth effect.
This 'multi-dimensional connection' significantly enhances user stickiness: the monthly retention rate of Emerald Card users reaches 88%, and 40% of users convert from pure consumers to sSOL staking users, truly achieving the leap 'from users to ecosystem participants'.
Summary: Pillar capabilities determine growth rate, potential in lowland yet to be realized
Solayer's core competitiveness lies in that it is not an 'edge supplement' to the Solana ecosystem, but a 'growth pillar' — InfiniSVM supports the landing of industry-level scenarios, sSOL+sUSD supports funding needs, and the Emerald Card supports user connections, forming an accelerated cycle of 'industry traffic, funding activation, and user growth' through the interaction of the three.
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 TVL reaches $350 million, with a market cap/TVL ratio (0.37-0.45) far below the average level of Web3 infrastructure (0.6-0.8), and it has backing from top-tier capitals like Polychain Capital and Binance Labs. With the realization of InfiniSVM's mainnet with over 1 million TPS and the onboarding of more industries and merchants, Solayer's 'pillar value' will further amplify, and its current value gap may gradually be realized as the ecosystem accelerates growth.