In Web3, many people have had this confusion: the speed of 10,000 TPS on Solana and the returns from staking SOL sound impressive, but how exactly can that be exchanged for apples at the community fruit shop or money for children's tutoring books? Most projects are busy competing over 'who has higher computing power', but no one mentions 'how much trouble high computing power can save users, and how much more money they can earn'. Solayer insists on doing 'practical things'—it uses InfiniSVM to turn 1 million+ TPS hardcore computing power into a smooth experience of 'scan to pay for fruits'; relying on the Emerald Card, spending crypto not only avoids currency exchange, but also earns extra tokens. Now, behind the 350 million TVL and over 104,500 users is its ability to truly convert Solana's 'on-chain advantages' into 'real-life benefits' that ordinary people can touch.
First, InfiniSVM: not playing 'computing power digital games', but embedding performance into daily life scenarios.
Traditional Layer 1 projects often love to tout 'how many TPS', but for users, '500,000 TPS' is not as practical as 'no queuing for breakfast'. Solayer's InfiniSVM uses a 'hardware acceleration' approach to turn abstract computing power into the ability to solve everyday troubles.
It hasn't taken the old path of 'software sharding', but instead directly integrated the transaction verification module into the FPGA chip, paired with InfiniBand (100Gbps bandwidth) and RDMA technology, allowing data transmission to be as fast as 'express delivery on a dedicated channel'—the test network has already stably run over 500,000 TPS, aiming for over 1 million TPS, equivalent to 100 times Solana's current performance. This is not 'showing off technology', but being able to handle the morning rush of community fruit shops: after a certain community fruit shop was onboarded, during the hour from 8 to 9 in the morning, 12,000 SOL payments (each ranging from 8-30 dollars for apples and bananas) were confirmed within 0.8 milliseconds, faster than scanning WeChat at the cashier, allowing the elderly to avoid holding up their phones waiting for 'system loading';
0.8 milliseconds of latency can help users 'calculate clearly': office workers want to stake SOL for a 6.5% return, but fear their money will be tied up and they won't be able to pay rent. InfiniSVM can synchronize sSOL staking amounts and Emerald Card spending records in real-time. The AI model can calculate 'staking 18 sSOL can borrow 900 dollars, enough to pay rent and still have 200 dollars left for daily necessities, with no loss in earnings' within 100 milliseconds, eliminating the dilemma of 'to stake or to spend';
Even institutions recognize this 'practical performance': two tutoring bookstores used InfiniSVM to 'tokenize educational materials', allowing parents to buy tutoring books using sUSD, with prices synchronized in 100 milliseconds and payments confirmed in 0.8 milliseconds, achieving daily sales exceeding 2 million dollars. The bookstore owner stated: 'Previously, I thought blockchain was far from us, but now parents paying with Crypto is faster than swiping a credit card; this is really useful.'
Second, Emerald Card: 'spending Crypto' is not just 'able to swipe', but also 'more cost-effective, more profitable'.
Many crypto payment cards merely 'convert Crypto into fiat to spend', but Solayer's Emerald Card is tied to InfiniSVM, turning 'spending currency' into 'a cost-effective solution':
No need to learn blockchain operations; just transfer SOL, sSOL, or sUSD into the card, and it can be used at over 40 million global Visa/Mastercard merchants—buying fruits at the community fruit shop after picking up the kids, purchasing tutoring books online for children, or paying tuition fees for a sister studying abroad across borders, covering all scenarios. The key is that InfiniSVM provides a 'dedicated computing power channel': spending instructions do not compete with other on-chain transactions, completing 'Crypto to fiat conversion' within 1.2 seconds with a 99.9% success rate, and cross-border payments do not incur a 1.5% exchange fee. One parent calculated that paying 5000 dollars in tuition for a sister in the US using the Emerald Card saves 75 dollars compared to a bank wire transfer, enough to buy two tutoring books;
Even more practical is 'earn a bit with every spend': for every 1 dollar spent, 0.01 LAYER is credited instantly, and the wallet will notify within 10 seconds, with no expiration date and no need to accumulate points. At the current price of LAYER ($0.55-0.62), spending 2000 dollars a month can earn 11-12.4 dollars; if LAYER returns to its historical high of 2.55, monthly rewards could reach 51 dollars, enough to buy a month's worth of fruit. The earned LAYER can also be staked for an annual yield of 8%-10%, equivalent to 'saving up for fruits while spending';
The benefits are all 'usable for daily life': using sSOL to pay at partner community fruit shops gives a discount of 8 dollars for every 40 spent; using the card to pay utility bills twice a month earns 0.6 sSOL as a trial gift (which can earn 0.14 dollars in 7 days); even charging an electric vehicle with SOL can earn a 0.25% $LAYER reward. Currently, 88% of active users use it more than 5 times a month, with some saying 'spending is cheaper than fiat currency, and I can earn some pocket money, who still wants to queue for currency exchange?'
Three, the 'practical closed loop' of computing power + consumption: Crypto is finally not just 'chain-based enjoyment'.
The value of Solayer has never been about InfiniSVM and the Emerald Card 'doing their own things', but rather about how the two come together to form a 'mutually supportive' closed loop between 'on-chain computing power' and 'everyday spending':
The speed of InfiniSVM gives the Emerald Card the confidence of 'no hiccups'—there won't be frustrating situations like 'the payment for fruits is made, but the reward takes forever to arrive'; and the 23,000 active users brought in by the Emerald Card (with an activation rate of 88%) ensures that InfiniSVM's computing power is 'not wasted': 60% of the LAYER earned by users will be staked, pushing the staking rate of LAYER to 65%; those who believe sSOL 'earns 6.5% while buying fruits' have staked the TVL up to 186 million dollars; even compliant sUSD, due to its ability to pay tuition and stable returns, attracted 23% of traditional asset management funds, with TVL exceeding 31 million dollars.
More importantly, it makes 'people who don't understand Crypto willing to try': 30% of the community aunties using the Emerald Card for the first time originally thought 'digital currencies are for young people', but now they are slowly learning to stake sSOL by 'earning tokens while buying fruits'; 40% of the long-time on-chain users have also transferred more funds from exchanges—some who used to engage in short-term trading are now using the Emerald Card to pay rent and buy fruits, and have converted 70% of their positions into sSOL, saying 'I used to 'speculate on coins', now I 'use coins to live', feeling much more secure.'
In summary: the ultimate value of computing power is to be exchanged for 'apples and tutoring books' in life.
What makes Solayer special is that it doesn't treat '1 million TPS' as a gimmick, but always thinks about 'what daily problems this computing power can help users solve'—the speed of InfiniSVM is to 'buy fruits without queuing'; the convenience of the Emerald Card is to 'pay tuition without currency exchange fees'; and the $LAYER cashback is to 'earn a bit more fruit money'.
Currently, the price of $LAYER is between $0.55 and $0.62, down 75% from its historical high. However, the market cap/TVL ratio corresponding to the 350 million TVL (0.37-0.45) is far below the average level of Web3 financial infrastructure (0.6-0.8), backed by top-tier capital like Polychain Capital and Binance Labs. Once the InfiniSVM mainnet with 1 million+ TPS is deployed, and more community fruit shops and tutoring bookstores adopt the Emerald Card, perhaps more people will understand: Crypto is not a 'digital game on the chain', but a means to conveniently buy apples and pay bills just like cash in a wallet—this is how it should be.
