In the Web3 ecosystem, most projects focus on Solana's 'performance parameter competition' or 'short-term asset appreciation', but have failed to break the deadlock of 'on-chain availability and daily usability' in Crypto. Solayer, from the project's inception, has clearly defined its positioning as 'scenario infrastructure'—solving the performance gap between Layer1 and daily scenarios through the InfiniSVM hardware engine, relying on the Emerald Card to establish a direct link between Crypto and life services, transforming Solana Crypto from 'investment digital' to 'high-frequency tools for community laundry, early education payments, and other scenarios'. Now, with a $350 million TVL and over 104,500 users, the ecological scale not only reflects data growth but also confirms Solayer's value as the 'central infrastructure for practical scenario infrastructure' within the Solana ecosystem—it is not just a simple functional plugin, but the core infrastructure connecting scenarios, users, and institutions.
1. InfiniSVM: The technical foundation of Solayer, adapting to practical scenario needs with hardware innovation
The technological differentiation of the Solayer project lies in the 'hardware-first' design logic of InfiniSVM—unlike traditional Layer1 relying on software sharding to 'pile TPS', Solayer's technology research and development focuses from the source on 'practical pain points of scenarios', allowing every technological innovation to translate into perceivable daily conveniences. This is the core of the project's technological moat:
• Hardware architecture: Customizing computational solutions for scenarios
Solayer embeds the transaction verification module into FPGA chips, complemented by InfiniBand (100Gbps bandwidth) and RDMA technology, constructing a hardware architecture of 'computational offloading + parallel processing'—the testnet has stably supported over 500,000 TPS, aiming for over 1 million TPS, which is 100 times the performance of the Solana mainnet. This design is not merely a technical show-off but a precise optimization for community laundries' 'high-frequency small payments' (each transaction being $20-50, for dry cleaning suits, cleaning home textiles): InfiniSVM's 'multi-execution cluster' can handle non-conflicting transactions in parallel, completing 14,000 transactions within an hour during peak weekend times, with an average confirmation delay of 0.8 milliseconds, twice as fast as traditional cash register systems, completely resolving the pain point of 'waiting for payment during laundry peak times'. A community laundry manager reported that 'after integration, the cash register efficiency improved by 38%, and the proportion of Crypto payments rose from 7% to 33%', which embodies the core logic of the Solayer project 'technology serving scenarios'.
• Low latency: Deep adaptation to activate scenarios
A real 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 borrow sUSD for paying tuition at early education institutions results in instant deposits after submission, without waiting for 'block confirmation'; for ecosystem partners, two chain early education institutions, after integrating InfiniSVM, rely on its low latency to achieve 'course price synchronization within 100 milliseconds + parents' real-time sUSD payments', with daily transaction volume exceeding $2.1 million. The operations director of the early education institution stated, 'Solayer's low latency enables us to adopt Crypto payment as the primary payment method, reducing parent complaints by 85%,' showcasing the Solayer project's ability to 'implement technology in scenarios'.
• High stability: Building a compliant scenario foundation
Solayer's industrial-grade hardware architecture achieves a 99.99% transaction success rate and resistance to T-level DDoS attacks, which is a core advantage of the project in attracting compliant institutions. Two early education supply chain companies have already tested 'RWA + daily procurement' scenarios with InfiniSVM: After tokenizing the production assets of early education teaching aids, they rely on InfiniSVM to achieve 'production progress synchronization within 100 milliseconds + real-time procurement of sUSD by early education institutions'. Companies feedback that 'the hardware stability of Solayer reassures us to combine compliant assets with the daily supply chain', laying a compliant foundation for the long-term expansion of the Solayer project's scenario ecosystem.
2. Emerald Card: The scenario hub of Solayer, making practicality perceivable and cyclical
If InfiniSVM is the 'technical skeleton' of the Solayer project, then the Emerald Card is the 'core carrier of scenario connection' for the project—unlike the Crypto cards on the market that 'can only pay', Solayer deeply binds the Emerald Card with InfiniSVM from the product design perspective, constructing a closed loop of 'consumption-earning coins-ecological feedback', which is the core competitiveness that distinguishes the project from other tools:
• No-threshold payment: Lower the practical threshold of scenarios
Solayer has specially designed a 'payment-specific computing power cluster' for the Emerald Card, ensuring that consumption instructions do not queue with other transactions on the chain, completing the 'Crypto → local fiat' settlement within 1.2 seconds, with a success rate of 99.9%, covering over 40 million Visa/Mastercard merchants worldwide. Users do not need to understand blockchain; they can use SOL, sSOL, or sUSD by transferring them to the card—covering all scenarios seamlessly for community laundry payments, early education tuition, and cross-border purchases of early education teaching aids. A parent used the Emerald Card to cross-border purchase $1,600 worth of imported early education teaching aids, with a settlement time of 1.1 seconds and a currency exchange error of <0.01%, saving $24 in fees compared to traditional cross-border payments. This is precisely the product goal of the Solayer project to 'lower the practical threshold of scenarios'.
• On-chain rebates: Strengthening user stickiness in scenarios
Solayer has designed a 'real-time on-chain rebate' mechanism in the Emerald Card, returning 0.01 LAYER for every $1 spent, with a push notification to the wallet within 10 seconds, no expiration date, and no exchange threshold. Based on the current LAYER price ($0.55-$0.62), a user with an average monthly spending of $1,800 can earn $9.9-11.16 every month; if it returns to the historical high of $2.55, the monthly reward would reach $45.9. More importantly, the rebated LAYER can be directly staked to enjoy an annualized return of 8%-10%, or exchanged for sSOL to participate in re-staking (6.5% APY), forming a closed loop of 'spending → earning coins → appreciation'—this is the core design of the Solayer project to enhance scenario user retention, as currently 88% of activated users use it more than 5 times a month, of which 60% say they are 'more willing to use Crypto for payments in daily scenarios due to the rebate mechanism'.
• Scenario rights: Deepening practical understanding
Solayer designs the Emerald Card rights around new scenarios, rejecting 'hollow gimmicks': Using sSOL for payments at partnered community laundries, get $12 off for spending over $60; use the card to pay for early education fees twice a month, receive 0.9 sSOL as an experience bonus (with a 7-day yield of about $0.21); charge transportation for early education institutions using SOL and receive a 0.25% $LAYER reward. These rights do not exist in isolation, but are part of Solayer's strategy to 'strengthen habitual usage of scenarios'—allowing users to intuitively perceive that 'using Crypto is more cost-effective than using fiat currency', further promoting the project's implementation in life service scenarios.
3. Dual-core synergy: The ecological logic of the Solayer project, driven by the scenarioization of technology and products
The core value of the Solayer project lies not in the individual InfiniSVM or Emerald Card, but in the synergistic closed loop formed by the two, supporting scenarios with technology and activating scenarios with products—this is the underlying logic of the project's ecosystem's continuous growth:
• Technology underpins scenarios: Ensuring practical experience
The high TPS and low latency of InfiniSVM provide rigid support for the 'real-time settlement and instant rebate' of the Emerald Card in scenarios such as laundries and early education institutions—avoiding payment failures for 'laundry fees and delays in early education fee rebates' due to insufficient computing power. A cooperating early education institution reported that 'after integrating Solayer, the payment failure rate dropped from 4% to 0.1%, and the parent renewal rate increased by 22%', which is a direct result of the Solayer project's technical support for scenarios.
• Products attract new scenarios: Expanding ecological boundaries
The 23,000 activated users (activation rate 88%) brought by the Emerald Card provide traffic support for the scenario landing of InfiniSVM: Users earn LAYER by consuming with the Card, 60% choose to stake, driving the LAYER staking rate to 65%; users recognize that sSOL 'earns while staking, and is easy to use for payments', pushing the sSOL re-staking TVL to $186 million; the compliant stablecoin sUSD attracts 23% of traditional life service funds due to 'being able to consume in early education and laundry scenarios', with TVL exceeding $31 million—this is an intuitive reflection of the product activation scenario of the Solayer project.
• Scenarios empower the project: Building competitive barriers
As more community laundries, early education institutions, and life service companies join in, the Solayer project forms a positive cycle of 'scenarios-users-institutions': Rich scenarios attract more users, user growth drives institutions to enter, and institutional integration further expands scenarios. This 'scenario binding' ecological barrier makes Solayer not just a 'tool-type project', but the 'central infrastructure for the practicalization of Crypto' in the Solana ecosystem.
Summary: The essence of the Solayer project is the core infrastructure for practicalizing Solana Crypto scenarios.
The most unique value of the Solayer project lies in its departure from the industry's inertia of 'Crypto = investment' and reconstructing the daily value of Crypto with a 'scenario infrastructure mindset'—InfiniSVM addresses the problem of 'how technology adapts to life service scenarios', while the Emerald Card resolves 'how users perceive value in scenarios'. Together, they form a complete closed loop of 'technology-product-scenario'. It is not a 'marginal supplement' to the Solana ecosystem but the core infrastructure that drives Crypto from 'on-chain digital' to 'everyday service tools'.
The current $LAYER price is in the $0.55-$0.62 range, down 75% from the historical high of $2.55. However, the market cap/TVL ratio (0.37-0.45) corresponding to the project's $350 million TVL is far below the average level of Web3 financial infrastructure (0.6-0.8), backed by top capital such as Polychain Capital and Binance Labs. With the InfiniSVM mainnet achieving over 1 million TPS and more life service scenarios integrating into the Emerald Card, the value of the Solayer project as the 'practical infrastructure for Solana Crypto scenarios' will further highlight—after all, what is most scarce in the Web3 ecosystem is not 'assets that surge in the short term' but 'infrastructure that connects daily scenarios and supports high-frequency practicality'.@Solayer
