While the Web3 industry is still engaged in a Layer1 performance competition centered around financial scenarios, a core contradiction is becoming increasingly prominent: most projects aim for 'high TPS parameters' as a technical goal, yet fail to address the actual pain points of high-frequency scenarios such as community convenience and cross-border daily consumption, resulting in Crypto remaining detached from mainstream life. Solayer takes a different approach, focusing on 'customizing hardware to meet scenario demands' as its core idea. Through the collaborative innovation of the InfiniSVM engine and the Emerald Card, it constructs a 'technical infrastructure that fits daily life and products that meet demands', providing a key solution for Web3 to transition from 'financial circles' to 'lifestyle scenarios'.
1. InfiniSVM: Jumping out of the parameter competition, customizing hardware to match daily scenario demands.
Traditional Layer1 performance optimization often relies on software-level algorithm iterations, limited by the computing power allocation logic of general servers. When processing small, high-frequency transactions of $10-100, it often encounters the problem of 'computing power being squeezed out by large transactions, leading to soaring delays'—this is precisely the core pain point of daily scenarios such as shopping at community convenience stores or paying utility bills across borders. Solayer's breakthrough lies in deeply binding hardware design with scenario demands, making the InfiniSVM engine the underlying architecture 'born for daily transactions'.
From the perspective of core technology, InfiniSVM's differentiated advantage lies in the 'scenario-specific transformation of FPGA chips'. Its self-developed FPGA chips are not general computing power carriers but are optimized at the hardware level for the characteristics of small transactions: the chips are equipped with a 'scenario-specific computing power scheduling module' that can automatically identify transaction scenario properties—when a community breakfast shop experiences a large number of $5-20 payment orders during peak hours (7-9 AM), the module dynamically allocates 80% of the computing power to prioritize this type of 'low amount, high efficiency' demand. The single-chip parallel processing capacity for non-conflicting transactions reaches 180,000 transactions per second, with a computing power density 11 times higher than traditional servers. This 'on-demand allocation of computing power' logic completely breaks free from the traditional Layer1 'one-size-fits-all' performance bottleneck, allowing technical optimization to directly serve the daily user experience.
In the network transmission stage, InfiniSVM employs 100Gbps InfiniBand high-speed networks and RDMA technology to establish a 'direct hardware connection channel for transaction data'. Unlike traditional Ethernet, which requires routing through the operating system, user payment instructions can be transmitted directly from the terminal to the merchant node through the hardware channel, maintaining a stable delay of 0.8 milliseconds throughout, unaffected by congestion from other on-chain transactions. This characteristic precisely meets the 'instantaneous demand' of daily scenarios—whether it's an emergency purchase at a community pharmacy or buying daily necessities on a cross-border platform, users can achieve 'scan to pay, second-level confirmation', alleviating anxiety over 'payment waiting'.
In terms of compliance and stability, InfiniSVM achieves a 99.99% transaction success rate through industrial-grade hardware design, and possesses T-level DDoS attack resistance capabilities. It has completed community business compliance filings in regions such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East. This 'performance + compliance + stability' triple guarantee provides a key trust foundation for community merchants and cross-border service agencies to access daily scenarios, avoiding the problem of disconnection between technical adaptation and compliance requirements.
2. Emerald Card: Bringing technological value to the ground, creating an entry point for daily use in Web3.
The value of technological innovation ultimately needs to be realized through user-perceptible products. The Emerald Card launched by Solayer is not just a simple Crypto payment tool but a 'scenario-based value carrier' designed around the hardware advantages of InfiniSVM, specifically addressing the three core issues of 'complex operations, lack of actual benefits, and regional limitations'.
In terms of functional adaptation, the Emerald Card deeply connects with the 'exclusive computing power channel for daily transactions' of InfiniSVM. When users spend at over 51 million Visa/Mastercard partner merchants worldwide (including community fresh food stores, cross-border e-commerce, and convenience service points), payment instructions can directly access InfiniSVM's scenario-specific computing power module without competing for resources with large on-chain transactions. Actual data shows that, supported by this technology, the 'Crypto-Fiat' settlement success rate of the Emerald Card reaches 99.9%, with settlement time controlled within 1.2 seconds, far exceeding the industry average of 8-13 seconds, completely resolving daily concerns of 'payment failures and waiting for confirmation'.
In the context of cross-border daily consumption scenarios, the Emerald Card utilizes InfiniSVM's global network of over 200 hardware nodes to achieve 'location-neutral experience + low-cost settlement'. Users paying community property fees in Southeast Asia or buying maternal and infant products in Europe need not worry about latency fluctuations caused by regional computing power differences; cross-border payment exchange rate errors are controlled within 0.01%, and traditional financial institutions' currency exchange fees of 1.2%-7% are waived, directly reducing the cost of daily cross-border consumption—this effectively transforms Crypto's 'asset attributes' into 'practical payment tools' for users with cross-border living needs.
To enhance user stickiness, Solayer has designed the 'Emerald Rewards' scenario-based reward system, linking 'daily consumption' directly with 'practical benefits'. For every $1 spent, users can instantly earn 0.01 LAYER (the native token of Solayer), with a cashback reminder sent to their wallet within 10 seconds, without any expiration or redemption threshold. The LAYER earned can not only be staked to InfiniSVM hardware nodes for an annual yield of 8%-10%, but can also be exchanged for discount coupons at community fresh food stores and cross-border shopping discounts, forming a closed loop of 'consumption-revenue-re-consumption'. This design, which strongly associates 'revenue with daily needs', differs from the airdrop incentives of traditional Crypto projects, allowing users to intuitively feel the value of use rather than merely holding assets.
3. Technology-Product Collaboration: Building a closed ecological loop for Web3 daily infrastructure.
The key to the normalization of Web3 lies in transforming technical advantages into an ecological closed loop that 'users are willing to use and merchants are willing to accept'. Through the collaboration of InfiniSVM and the Emerald Card, Solayer has precisely achieved this goal: InfiniSVM addresses the question of whether 'underlying performance can support daily scenarios', while the Emerald Card addresses whether 'users and merchants are willing to use it', both driving the positive cycle of 'scenario-technology-user'.
For users, there is no need to understand complex hardware architecture; through the Emerald Card, they can enjoy the experience of 'instant payment, saving money, and earning discounts' in community shopping and cross-border consumption, significantly lowering the threshold for using Crypto. For merchants and institutions, integrating the Emerald Card is equivalent to gaining hardware-level performance support from InfiniSVM, reducing the payment failure rate from the industry average of 5.5% to 0.02%, while also allowing them to customize community-specific discounts through the 'merchant backend' to enhance user repurchase rates. For the Web3 ecosystem, Solayer's exploration proves that Layer1 infrastructure need not be limited to financial scenarios; by 'technically adapting to scenarios and products meeting demands', it can fully become a core facility supporting daily life.
From the perspective of industry value, Solayer's innovation is not merely a breakthrough of a single technology or product, but a reconstruction of Layer1's design logic—taking 'serving daily needs' as the starting point for technological development, rather than 'piling up performance and then finding scenarios'. Currently, its $350 million TVL corresponds to a market value/TVL ratio (0.37-0.45) that is far below the average level of Web3 financial infrastructure (0.6-0.8). As the InfiniSVM mainnet officially launches with over 1 million TPS and the coverage of Emerald Card merchants continues to expand, this 'scenario-based infrastructure' model is expected to become the mainstream direction for the normalization of Web3.
Ultimately, the ultimate value of Web3 lies not in creating financial tools for niche circles, but in becoming practical infrastructure integrated into daily life. Solayer, with hardware accelerating Layer1 as its foundation and scenario-based products as its entry point, is turning the concept of 'Crypto solving daily problems' into reality—when users pay community property fees or buy daily necessities with the Emerald Card, Web3 will have truly completed its leap from 'financial innovation' to 'lifestyle infrastructure'.
