In the Web3 ecosystem, most projects focus on Solana's 'on-chain performance competition' or 'asset speculation attributes' but have failed to bridge the last mile for Crypto from 'on-chain to daily life'. Solayer starts from the underlying logic of the project, making 'building infrastructure for the practicality of Crypto' its core mission—breaking through the performance barriers between Layer1 and daily scenarios through the InfiniSVM hardware architecture and constructing a product closed loop of 'consumption-appreciation-ecological feedback' via the Emerald Card, enabling Solana Crypto to transform from 'digital in wallets' to 'perceptible daily tools'. Now with a $350 million TVL and over 104,500 users, the scale of the ecosystem reflects not only growth in data but also the value verification of Solayer as 'the core infrastructure for practicality' in the Solana ecosystem—it is not merely a functional plugin but a key project that redefines the daily value of Crypto.
One, InfiniSVM: The technological cornerstone of Solayer, solving practical performance challenges through hardware innovation.
The technical differentiation of the Solayer project stems from the reconstruction of the 'essence of Layer1 performance'—unlike traditional projects that rely on software sharding to 'fudge TPS numbers', Solayer chooses a 'hardware-first' technical path, and every design aspect of InfiniSVM revolves around 'solving daily practical pain points', which is also the core of the project's technical moat:
• Hardware architecture: Custom computing power solutions for daily scenarios
Solayer embeds the transaction verification module into FPGA chips, combined with InfiniBand (100Gbps bandwidth) and RDMA technology, constructing a 'computing power offloading + parallel processing' hardware architecture— the test network has stably supported over 500,000 TPS, aiming for over 1 million TPS, which is 100 times the current performance of the Solana mainnet. This design is not a technical gimmick but a precise planning of the Solayer project for daily high-frequency scenarios: for community gyms' 'small payments for punch cards' (ranging from $10 to $30 for purchasing gym passes or drinking water), the InfiniSVM's 'multi-execution cluster' can parallel process non-conflicting transactions, completing 15,000 transactions within 1.5 hours during peak evening hours, with an average confirmation delay of 0.8 milliseconds, twice as fast as traditional cash register systems, thoroughly addressing the pain point of 'waiting in line for payments during gym peak hours'. A certain community gym manager reported, 'After integration, payment efficiency improved by 35%, and the proportion of Crypto payments rose from 8% to 35%.', which reflects the technical logic of the Solayer project: 'practical performance service'.
• Low latency: Deep adaptation capability for activated scenarios.
A measured delay of 0.8 milliseconds is the key technical indicator that allows Solayer to integrate Crypto into daily life. For users, using sSOL to collateralize and borrow sUSD to purchase print paper at an office supply store results in instant credit after submitting the operation, without waiting for 'block confirmation'; for ecological partners, after two office supply chains integrated InfiniSVM, they achieved 'supply material prices synchronized in 100 milliseconds + real-time corporate sUSD procurement' relying on its low latency, with daily transactions exceeding $2.2 million. The procurement manager of the chain store stated, 'The low latency of Solayer allows us to confidently make Crypto payments a primary channel for corporate procurement', reflecting the core capability of the Solayer project for 'technical implementation in scenarios'.
• High stability: Building the foundational basis for a compliant ecosystem.
Solayer's industrial-grade hardware architecture achieves a 99.99% transaction success rate and T-level DDoS attack resistance, which is the core advantage of the project in attracting compliant institutions to enter. Two office supply chain enterprises have tested the 'RWA + daily supply chain' scenarios with InfiniSVM: after tokenizing supply production assets, they rely on InfiniSVM to achieve 'production progress synchronized in 100 milliseconds + real-time orders for retailers in sUSD', with companies reporting that 'the hardware stability of Solayer gives us confidence to combine compliant assets with daily supply chains', laying a compliant foundation for the long-term expansion of the Solayer project ecology.
Two, Emerald Card: The core product of Solayer, making practicality perceptible and retainable.
If InfiniSVM is the 'technical skeleton' of the Solayer project, then the Emerald Card is the 'flesh and blood' that brings practicality to life—unlike market Crypto cards that 'can only make payments', Solayer deeply binds the Emerald Card with InfiniSVM at the project product design level, constructing a closed loop of 'consumption-earning-ecology feedback', which is the core competitiveness that distinguishes the project from other payment tools:
• No-threshold payment: Lowering the entry threshold for practicality
The Solayer project is exclusively designed for the Emerald Card to have a 'payment dedicated computing cluster'. Consumption instructions do not queue with other transactions on the chain, completing 'Crypto→local fiat' settlements within 1.2 seconds with a success rate of 99.9%, covering over 40 million global Visa/Mastercard merchants. Users do not need to understand blockchain technology; they can simply transfer SOL, sSOL, or sUSD to the card for use—seamless coverage across all scenarios such as purchasing gym passes at community gyms, buying supplies at office supply stores, or sending office equipment to overseas employees. A certain small to medium enterprise used the Emerald Card to purchase $2,000 worth of cross-border office supplies, with a settlement time of 1.1 seconds and a currency error rate of <0.01%, saving $30 in transfer fees compared to traditional business remittances. This is precisely the product goal of the Solayer project to 'lower practical thresholds'.
• On-chain rebates: Strengthening user ecological stickiness
The Solayer project designs a 'real-time on-chain rebate' mechanism in the Emerald Card, returning 0.01 LAYER for every $1 spent, with wallet reminders sent within 10 seconds, no expiration, and no redemption thresholds. Based on the current LAYER price ($0.55-$0.62), users with an average monthly spending of $1,700 could earn $9.35-$10.54 per month; if returning to the historical high of $2.55, monthly rewards could reach $43.35. More crucially, the rebated LAYER can be directly staked for an annualized return of 8%-10%, or exchanged for sSOL to participate in re-staking (6.5% APY), forming a closed loop of 'consumption→earning coins→appreciation'—this is the core design of the Solayer project to enhance user retention, with 88% of activated users using it more than five times a month, validating the effectiveness of the product design.
• Scene rights: Deepening practical cognition
The Solayer project designs the rights of the Emerald Card around daily needs, rejecting 'hollow hype': using sSOL for payment at partnered community gyms, enjoy a $8 discount on purchases over $40; with two purchases of office supplies per month using the card, receive 0.7 sSOL as a trial (7-day return of approximately $0.16); using SOL for corporate electric vehicle charging, receive a reward of 0.25% $LAYER. These rights do not exist independently but are strategies of the Solayer project to 'strengthen the daily use habits of Crypto'—enabling both individual and corporate users to intuitively perceive that 'using Crypto is more cost-effective than using fiat', further promoting the practical implementation of the project.
Three, dual-core synergy: The ecological logic of the Solayer project, with technology and products driving each other.
The core value of the Solayer project lies not in the singular InfiniSVM or Emerald Card, but in the synergistic closed loop formed by the two—this is the underlying logic for the continuous growth of the project's ecology:
• Technology supports products: Ensuring stability of practical experience
The high TPS and low latency of InfiniSVM provide rigid guarantees for the Emerald Card's 'real-time settlement and instant rebates'—avoiding issues like 'payment failures at gyms or delayed rebates at office supply stores' due to insufficient computing power. A certain partnered office supply store reported, 'After integrating with Solayer, the payment failure rate dropped from 4% to 0.1%, and user repurchase rate increased by 20%', which is a direct result of the technical support of the Solayer project for its products.
• Products attract new users to the ecology: Expanding the boundaries of users and institutions.
The 23,000 activated users brought by the Emerald Card (activation rate 88%) provide traffic support for the technical scenarios of InfiniSVM: Users earn LAYER through Card consumption, with 60% choosing to stake, pushing the LAYER staking rate to 65%; users find sSOL 'staking is profitable and payments are convenient', driving sSOL's re-staking TVL to $186 million; the compliant stablecoin sUSD, due to its 'daily consumption and stable returns', attracts 23% of traditional small to medium enterprises to enter, with TVL exceeding $31 million—this is an intuitive manifestation of the Solayer project's product feeding back into the ecology.
• Ecology empowers the project: Building long-term competitive barriers
With more community gyms, office supply companies, and cross-border trade companies integrating, the Solayer project forms a positive cycle of 'practical scenarios-users-institutions': the increase in scenarios attracts more individual and corporate users, user growth drives compliant institutions to enter, and institutional integration further enriches scenarios. This ecological barrier makes Solayer not only a 'tool-type project' but also the 'core hub for the practicality of Crypto' within the Solana ecosystem.
Summary: The essence of the Solayer project is the core infrastructure for the practicality of Solana Crypto.
The unique value of the Solayer project lies in its breaking away from the industry's inertia of 'Crypto = investment products', reconstructing the daily value of Crypto with 'infrastructure thinking'—InfiniSVM addresses the technical issue of 'how performance lands in daily scenarios', while the Emerald Card tackles the product issue of 'how users perceive practical value', with both synergistically forming a complete closed loop of 'technology-product-ecology'. It is not a 'marginal supplement' to the Solana ecosystem, but rather the core infrastructure that drives Crypto from 'on-chain digits' to 'daily tools'.
The current price of $LAYER is in the range of $0.55-$0.62, having fallen 75% from the historical high of $2.55. However, the project's $350 million TVL corresponds to a market cap/TVL ratio (0.37-0.45) that is far below the average level of Web3 financial infrastructure (0.6-0.8), and it has top-tier capital endorsements from Polychain Capital, Binance Labs, etc. As the InfiniSVM mainnet achieves over 1 million TPS and more gym, office, and cross-border scenarios integrate with the Emerald Card, the value of the Solayer project as 'the practical infrastructure for Solana Crypto' will further stand out—after all, what Web3 ecology lacks the most is not 'assets that can rise in the short term', but 'infrastructure that can support daily practicality in the long term'.@Solayer #BuiltOnSolayer $LAYER
