Blockchain has always had a pain point: slow speed and high consumption. Especially when facing tasks like AI inference and large-scale computing, the computational power on traditional chains seems inadequate. The emergence of Solayer is aimed at addressing this bottleneck.
Its approach is not merely about expanding capacity, but rather introducing a hardware acceleration layer. This means that certain computations on the blockchain no longer need to go through a general-purpose CPU, but can instead be processed directly using specialized GPUs or TPUs. Imagine you originally needed to transport ten tons of goods using a bicycle; now, switching to a truck would naturally make a huge difference in efficiency.
More importantly, this hardware-as-a-service model does not change developers' usage habits. Smart contracts still operate normally; only the execution layer behind them has been optimized. This ensures both the security of decentralization and elevates performance to a new level.
In the long run, this hardware-accelerated blockchain architecture may become a key entry point for the integration of AI and Web3, allowing blockchain to evolve from a mere testing ground for financial scenarios to a truly supportive infrastructure for large-scale applications.
