Within the Web3 financial ecosystem, the long-standing pain point has been 'performance meets standards but experiences are poor, features are rich yet impractical'—while Solana has technical potential, it has been difficult for ordinary users to feel the convenience of on-chain finance. Solayer, focusing on 'experience innovation', uses the InfiniSVM hardware engine to eliminate the gap between performance and experience, transforming crypto spending from a 'troublesome task' to a 'cost-effective deal', achieving both a technical breakthrough of over 1 million TPS and building a new ecosystem of 'spending earns, experience retains'. With solid data of $350 million TVL and over 104,500 users, it has become a benchmark for 'user-oriented infrastructure' in the Solana ecosystem.
1. InfiniSVM: Innovating on-chain financial experiences with hardware acceleration, beyond just 'speed'.
Traditional Layer 1 performance improvements often remain at the 'parameter level', leaving users unable to feel the difference. However, Solayer's InfiniSVM, with its pioneering design of 'hardware-accelerated Layer 1', directly translates performance advantages into a user-perceived experience innovation:
• Over 1 million TPS supports 'no-wait' transactions: Unlike the 'theoretical standards' of software scaling, InfiniSVM relies on InfiniBand (100 Gbps bandwidth) and RDMA technology to offload the transaction verification module to FPGA chips, paired with a 'multi-execution cluster' architecture—the testnet has already stably run over 500,000 TPS, targeting 1 million TPS. This means that when users perform sSOL swaps on Jupiter or borrow sUSD on Solend, they do not need to wait for 'block confirmation'; after submitting the operation, it can be completed within 0.8 milliseconds, faster than scrolling social media.
• Ultra-low latency activates high-value scenario experiences: For high-frequency trading users, InfiniSVM's 0.8 millisecond latency ensures they do not 'miss the window' for inter-pool arbitrage—after a market maker's integration, the slippage for the SOL/sUSD trading pair dropped from 0.5% to 0.05%, with daily earnings increasing by 15%. For AI + DeFi users, low latency supports real-time risk control experiences: when users use sSOL as collateral to borrow sUSD, the AI model relies on InfiniSVM to capture pledge data in real-time, completing credit assessments within 100 milliseconds. Quality users can directly enjoy a 1.2x collateral ratio without needing to submit additional materials.
• Institutional-level stability adapted to mass demand: InfiniSVM's hardware architecture achieves a 99.99% transaction success rate, even during periods of congestion on the Solana mainnet (with TPS reaching 12,000). Users' operations of staking sSOL and managing sUSD will not fail—this 'stability' experience precisely addresses ordinary users' concerns about 'operation failures and asset damage'. Among the 86,000 sSOL staking users, 90% reported that they have 'never had their operations delayed due to system issues'.
2. Emerald Card: Innovating crypto's practical experience through 'spending + returns', breaking the notion of 'only trading, not using'.
Most crypto payment cards can only 'complete payments' but fail to address the painful experiences of 'slow settlements and vague rewards'. In contrast, Solayer's Emerald Card is deeply linked with InfiniSVM, fundamentally innovating the crypto consumption experience:
• Global consumption 'seamless and imperceptible': Users do not need to learn blockchain operations; by transferring SOL, sSOL, or sUSD to the card, they can spend at over 40 million Visa/Mastercard merchants worldwide—whether buying coffee offline, shopping online, or booking hotels abroad. The core support is InfiniSVM's 'payment-specific computing power cluster': consumption instructions do not queue with other on-chain transactions, completing 'crypto → local fiat' exchange settlements within 1.2 seconds with a 99.9% success rate, faster than traditional credit card cross-border payments. A user paid for hotel expenses in Europe using the Emerald Card, and the settlement took 1.1 seconds with an exchange rate error of <0.01%, saving $200 compared to currency exchange.
• Spending earns 'real-time feedback': Unlike traditional payment methods where 'point redemption is difficult and arrival is slow', the Emerald Card's reward mechanism is fully on-chain—every time you spend $1, 0.01 LAYER is credited in real-time (within 10 seconds), with no expiration date or redemption threshold. Based on the current LAYER price ($0.55-0.62), a user with an average monthly consumption of $2,000 can earn $11-12.4 per month; if LAYER returns to its historical high of $2.55, monthly rewards would reach $51, equivalent to a '2.55% cash back on spending'. Even more considerate is that when rewards are credited, there is a wallet push notification, allowing users to see 'how much they earned from spending' directly. This 'immediate feedback' makes 88% of activated users express that they are 'more willing to spend crypto'.
3. Experience synergy: Bidirectional empowerment of performance and consumption, innovating ecological value logic.
Solayer's experience innovation is not a single breakthrough but a bidirectional empowerment of InfiniSVM and the Emerald Card, forming a closed loop of 'performance enhancement experience, experience attracts users, and user feedback supports the ecosystem':
InfiniSVM's hardware performance makes the Emerald Card's 'real-time settlement and instant rewards' possible, avoiding 'failed transactions and delayed rewards' due to insufficient computing power. At the same time, the massive user base brought by the Emerald Card (23,000 applications, 88% activation rate) provides traffic support for InfiniSVM's high-value scenarios (such as high-frequency consumption clearing and RWA payments)—for example, when users purchase sUSD backed by US Treasury bonds with the Emerald Card, transactions are quickly settled through InfiniSVM, and the 4% APY on sUSD is automatically accrued. Users can enjoy stable returns while being able to spend sUSD at any time, creating a seamless experience of 'wealth management-consumption-returns'.
This synergy is already reflected in the ecological data: sSOL, as a core asset connecting performance and consumption, has a re-staked TVL reaching $186 million. Users can stake SOL to receive liquidity tokens while enjoying a 6.5% base APY plus additional DeFi earnings; sUSD TVL has surpassed $31 million, with 23% coming from traditional asset management institutions, establishing itself as a benchmark for stablecoins that are 'both compliant and practical' in the Solana ecosystem.
Summary: Experience innovation defines value, with the potential of the lowland yet to be realized.
Solayer's core competitiveness lies in its role as an 'innovator of on-chain financial experiences' rather than a 'stacker of technical parameters'—InfiniSVM transforms performance from 'numbers' into a 'no-wait operational feel', and the Emerald Card changes crypto from an 'investment asset' into a 'daily tool that saves and makes money'. Together, they reshape users' understanding of on-chain finance.
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 ecological TVL has reached $350 million, with the market cap/TVL ratio (0.37-0.45) significantly lower than the average level of Web3 financial infrastructure (0.6-0.8), backed by top-tier capital such as Polychain Capital and Binance Labs. As InfiniSVM's mainnet achieves over 1 million TPS and more merchants integrate with the Emerald Card, Solayer's 'value of experience innovation' will further stand out, and its current valuation lowland may gradually be realized with the expansion of the user base.
