In the Web3 ecosystem, Solana users often face the dilemma of 'earning returns from on-chain assets while encountering obstacles in daily use'—while SOL staking and holding sUSD can earn paper returns, they still need to exchange for fiat currency when buying cold medicine at community pharmacies or paying tuition for children's programming classes, which is both time-consuming and incurs transaction fees. Most projects focus on 'performance upgrades' or 'asset appreciation,' but Solayer takes 'connecting daily essential needs' as its core goal, breaking down the barriers between 'technology and life scenarios' with the InfiniSVM hardware engine, and building a closed loop of 'on-chain assets → essential need payments → value cycle' with the Emerald Card. The current 350 million TVL and over 104,500 user ecosystem scale is a direct testament to Solayer's 'capability to connect essential needs'—it is not a 'marginal tool' in the Solana ecosystem but transforms crypto from 'on-chain digitals' into 'practical resources that solve daily needs.'
I. InfiniSVM: The technical foundation for connecting essential needs, adapting computational power to high-frequency life scenarios
Solayer's technological innovation focuses on the design of InfiniSVM 'hardware acceleration Layer1'—different from traditional Layer1 relying on software sharding to 'pile up TPS parameters,' Solayer has been clear from the outset that the ultimate meaning of computational power is 'supporting daily essential needs,' allowing on-chain assets to smoothly connect with high-frequency scenarios like pharmacies and programming classes. This positioning makes InfiniSVM a 'scenario-adaptive computational power carrier' and a technical moat for the project's essential needs connection.
• Hardware architecture: Customizing computational power for high-frequency payments at pharmacies
Solayer integrates the transaction verification module into FPGA chips, coupled with InfiniBand (100Gbps bandwidth) and RDMA technology, to construct a hardware architecture for 'computational offloading + parallel processing'—the test network 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 just a technical showcase but is tailor-made for 'early morning pharmacy purchases' during peak hours: during the peak from 8-9 AM, 13,000 SOL payments (each between 20-70 USD for cold medicine, vitamins, and band-aids) were processed in parallel by InfiniSVM's 'multi-execution clusters,' achieving 0.8 milliseconds confirmation, twice as fast as traditional checkout. Elderly children accompanying parents can 'scan and pay to pick up medicine' immediately, completely solving the pain point of 'waiting in line for payment when urgently needing medicine.' The pharmacy manager reported, 'After integration, the share of crypto payments rose from 7% to 32%, and many customers said, 'It's smoother than swiping insurance cards; no waiting for system responses,' which is precisely Solayer's core logic of 'computational power serving essential needs connection.'
• Low latency: Achieving instant payments for essential needs with on-chain assets
A measured latency of 0.8 milliseconds is key to Solayer enabling 'on-chain assets to pay for daily essentials instantly.' Users can use sSOL to collateralize and borrow sUSD to pay for children's programming class tuition, with the transaction completing instantly without waiting for 'block confirmation.' After integrating InfiniSVM, two chain programming institutions achieved 'course prices synchronized in 100 milliseconds + parents paying with sUSD in real-time,' with daily payment volumes exceeding 2.2 million USD. Programming institution operators stated, 'Previously, parents were afraid of payment delays causing them to miss the registration window. Now, they can secure spots immediately after paying with crypto, and inquiries have decreased by 60%,' reflecting Solayer's ability to meet 'technical landing essential needs.'
• High stability: Strengthening the compliant foundation for essential needs
Solayer's industrial-grade hardware architecture achieves a 99.99% transaction success rate and can withstand T-level DDoS attacks, which is a core advantage for attracting compliant institutions to participate in connecting essential needs. Two pharmacy suppliers tested the 'RWA + daily procurement' scenario using InfiniSVM: after tokenizing commonly used pharmaceutical production assets, they achieved 'medicine price synchronization in 100 milliseconds + pharmacies' real-time purchases with sUSD' through InfiniSVM, with daily procurement exceeding 2.7 million USD. Suppliers feedback that 'the stability of Solayer allows us to dare to bind on-chain assets with offline procurement, finally enabling on-chain value to connect with essential needs scenarios like pharmacies,' laying a compliant foundation for Solayer's scenario expansion.
II. Emerald Card: A user grasp for connecting with essential needs, making payments visible and beneficial
If InfiniSVM is the 'technical framework for connecting essential needs,' then the Emerald Card is the 'core carrier connecting on-chain assets with daily essentials'—it is not just a 'payment-only card' but is deeply bound with InfiniSVM, making 'using on-chain assets for essential needs' more cost-effective than 'using fiat currency,' truly achieving a 'perceptible connection of essential needs':
• No-threshold payment: Lowering the entry barrier for connecting essential needs
There is no need to understand blockchain technology; simply transfer SOL, sSOL, or sUSD to the Emerald Card, and you can use it at over 40 million Visa/Mastercard merchants worldwide—covering all scenarios including buying common medicines at pharmacies, paying for children's programming classes, and cross-border purchases of programming teaching aids. The core support is InfiniSVM's 'payment-specific computational power cluster': transaction instructions do not queue up with other on-chain transactions, completing 'Crypto → local fiat' settlements within 1.2 seconds, with a success rate of 99.9%. Cross-border payments also waive a 1.5% currency exchange fee. One parent calculated that purchasing 2100 USD worth of programming teaching aids across borders using the Emerald Card saved 31.5 USD compared to a bank transfer, enough to buy 3 boxes of vitamins at the pharmacy.
• Real-time rebates: Strengthening the connection to essential needs
Solayer has designed a 'real-time rebate' mechanism in the Emerald Card, where every dollar spent returns 0.01 LAYER, with wallet reminders sent within 10 seconds, no expiration date, and no exchange thresholds. Based on the current LAYER price ($0.55-$0.62), users with an average monthly expenditure of 2000 USD can earn 11-12.4 USD monthly; if it returns to the historical high of 2.55, monthly rewards can reach 51 USD, enough to cover one month of children's programming experience class fees. More critically, the rebated LAYER can be directly staked to enjoy 8%-10% annualized returns or exchanged for sSOL to participate in further staking (6.5% APY), forming a closed loop of 'on-chain asset payments for essential needs → earning tokens → further appreciation'—this is the core design of Solayer for enhancing user retention, with 88% of activated users using it more than five times a month, and 63% stating, 'Because of the rebates, I'm more willing to use on-chain assets to pay for essential bills like pharmacies and programming classes.'
• Scenario rights: Deepening awareness of essential needs
The benefits of the Emerald Card reject 'hollow gimmicks,' all being practical savings that meet essential needs: using sSOL to pay at partner pharmacies offers a discount of 12 USD for every 60 spent; using the card for tuition payments twice a month for programming classes gives a bonus of 0.8 sSOL experience card (with a 7-day yield of about 0.18 USD); paying for teaching aids charging using SOL earns a 0.25% $LAYER reward. These designs allow users to intuitively perceive that 'using on-chain assets to pay for essential needs is not only convenient but also can save more money,' promoting the connection of essential needs from 'occasional attempts' to 'daily habits.'
III. The synergy of technology and product: Creating a positive ecological cycle for connecting essential needs
Solayer's connection to essential needs is not a single breakthrough but a synergistic resonance between InfiniSVM and the Emerald Card, making 'connecting essential needs' the core engine for ecological growth:
• Technological foundation for essential needs experience: InfiniSVM's high TPS and low latency ensure that the Emerald Card 'buys common medicines at pharmacies without lag and refunds for programming class fees without delay,' making users 'willing to use it frequently.'
• Product feedback on essential needs scale: The Emerald Card brought in 23,000 activated users (activation rate 88%), driving the $LAYER staking rate to 65%, with sSOL's re-staking TVL rising to 186 million USD. The compliant stablecoin sUSD attracted 23% of traditional asset management funds due to its capability to pay for daily essentials, with a TVL exceeding 31 million USD.
• Scenario expansion of essential needs boundaries: The landing cases of pharmacies and programming institutions attract more community essential need merchants to integrate and further expand the connection scenarios—30% of users who originally only held SOL as 'investors' began actively staking sSOL 'to earn returns and conveniently pay for essential needs' after using the Emerald Card to purchase common medicines. 40% of 'ordinary parents' who do not understand crypto learned to use sSOL to stake and earn money for pharmacy purchases as they saved money on programming class fees, becoming new participants in connecting essential needs.
In summary: Solayer's core value is to enable crypto to capture daily essential needs.
What sets Solayer apart is that it does not treat 'hardware acceleration' and '1 million TPS' as marketing gimmicks but instead focuses on whether users can use on-chain assets to buy common medicines from pharmacies or pay for programming classes. It uses InfiniSVM to address the issue of 'computational power not reaching essential scenarios' and Emerald Card to solve 'unprofitable connections,' ultimately turning Solana Crypto from 'on-chain digital' into 'practical resources that solve daily essential needs.'
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 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), with top-tier capital backing from Polychain Capital, Binance Labs, and others. As InfiniSVM's mainnet achieves over 1 million TPS and more community pharmacies and children's programming institutions integrate the Emerald Card, Solayer's capability to connect essential needs will be further highlighted—after all, what is most scarce in the Web3 ecosystem is not 'appreciable assets,' but 'projects that can capture every daily essential need with crypto.'@Solayer #BuiltOnSolayer $LAYER
