Recent News on Solayer

On April 10th, LAYER surged past $1.90 in the early hours and is currently fluctuating around $1.81, with a 24-hour increase of 29.8%, reaching a new all-time high.

On April 9th, Solayer Chinese and Solana Chinese communities will jointly initiate a call for quality creators across the network to join from April 8th to April 27th to write original research reports on Solayer InfiniSVM for incentives!

Introduction to Solayer

Solayer is constructing InfiniSVM to expand Solana, leveraging its advantages as a decentralized cloud infrastructure. Through horizontal scaling and hardware offloading technologies, it aims to achieve a theoretical performance of 1 million TPS. In other words, Solayer allows Solana users to utilize SOL in various ways beyond simply staking or holding, thereby unlocking more value for users.

Solayer utilizes Solana contributors as validators, offering a high degree of decentralization and security, and provides a straightforward method for decentralized applications (DApps) to create their own AVS LSTs. Solayer's role can be summarized more simply and directly: Solayer acts as a highway coordinator!

Core Technical Components of Solayer

• RDMA and InfiniBand Technology: Solayer introduces a revolutionary InfiniSVM, utilizing solid-state drive acceleration + SDN/RDMA architecture to allow Solana to break through 100Gbps throughput! By dynamically sharding, it expands a single execution cluster to an unlimited number of machines to meet application demands.

• Software Defined Networking (SDN): It employs a three-layer architecture that separates the control plane from the data plane, enabling complex functions like load balancing and traffic engineering via programmable forwarding devices while maintaining line-speed performance.

• Sharded Database and Parallel Scheduling: Post-execution interactive state changes are updated to the sharded database. The sharded database uses the RDMA protocol for efficient cross-node data access. Leveraging the SMF algorithm and parallel scheduler integration, it finds an approximate optimal scheduling solution within milliseconds, greatly reducing lock contention while maintaining serialization consistency.

Solayer Team

With the goal of building a high-performance blockchain with a million TPS, Solayer was founded in 2024 with a strong technical background but lacking experience in blockchain base development:

• Rachel Chu: Co-founder of Solayer, founder and CEO of NFT project Vibe, and core developer of SushiSwap.

• Jason Li: Co-founder of Solayer, with a background in computer science from Berkeley, founder of MPCVault (non-custodial wallet).

• Joshua Sum: Product manager at Solayer, co-founder of College DAO, previously a product manager at Treehouse and vice president of the Michigan Entrepreneurship Club. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Solayer Financing

Since its inception, Solayer has gone through three significant rounds of fundraising:

• In January 2025, raising $10.5 million at a valuation of $350 million, with undisclosed participants!

• In August 2024, raising $12 million in a seed round at an $80 million valuation led by Polychain, with participation from YZi Labs, Hack VC, Nomad Capital, ABCDE Capital, etc.

• In July 2024, Solayer completed an undisclosed amount in a pre-seed round, which included Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal.

Summary of Solayer

Solayer's technological path is innovative, but its frequent narrative adjustments and high valuations, along with unlocks, have raised concerns. If the team can focus on the direction of hardware acceleration and fulfill the promise of a million TPS, it may become an important infrastructure within the Solana ecosystem. However, launching most platforms at TGE has already proven their capability. Referring to the 2025 roadmap, Solayer will introduce the SVM blockchain InfiniSVM, which is a typical crossover in the SVM track. Amidst the recent downturn in the crypto sector, the TGE performance has been overall acceptable.

Recent News on Solayer

On April 10th, LAYER surged past $1.90 in the early hours and is currently fluctuating around $1.81, with a 24-hour increase of 29.8%, reaching a new all-time high.

On April 9th, Solayer Chinese and Solana Chinese communities will jointly initiate a call for quality creators across the network to join from April 8th to April 27th to write original research reports on Solayer InfiniSVM for incentives!

Introduction to Solayer

Solayer is constructing InfiniSVM to expand Solana, leveraging its advantages as a decentralized cloud infrastructure. Through horizontal scaling and hardware offloading technologies, it aims to achieve a theoretical performance of 1 million TPS. In other words, Solayer allows Solana users to utilize SOL in various ways beyond simply staking or holding, thereby unlocking more value for users.

Solayer utilizes Solana contributors as validators, offering a high degree of decentralization and security, and provides a straightforward method for decentralized applications (DApps) to create their own AVS LSTs. Solayer's role can be summarized more simply and directly: Solayer acts as a highway coordinator!

Core Technical Components of Solayer

• RDMA and InfiniBand Technology: Solayer introduces a revolutionary InfiniSVM, utilizing solid-state drive acceleration + SDN/RDMA architecture to allow Solana to break through 100Gbps throughput! By dynamically sharding, it expands a single execution cluster to an unlimited number of machines to meet application demands.

• Software Defined Networking (SDN): It employs a three-layer architecture that separates the control plane from the data plane, enabling complex functions like load balancing and traffic engineering via programmable forwarding devices while maintaining line-speed performance.

• Sharded Database and Parallel Scheduling: Post-execution interactive state changes are updated to the sharded database. The sharded database uses the RDMA protocol for efficient cross-node data access. Leveraging the SMF algorithm and parallel scheduler integration, it finds an approximate optimal scheduling solution within milliseconds, greatly reducing lock contention while maintaining serialization consistency.

Solayer Team

With the goal of building a high-performance blockchain with a million TPS, Solayer was founded in 2024 with a strong technical background but lacking experience in blockchain base development:

• Rachel Chu: Co-founder of Solayer, founder and CEO of NFT project Vibe, and core developer of SushiSwap.

• Jason Li: Co-founder of Solayer, with a background in computer science from Berkeley, founder of MPCVault (non-custodial wallet).

• Joshua Sum: Product manager at Solayer, co-founder of College DAO, previously a product manager at Treehouse and vice president of the Michigan Entrepreneurship Club. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Solayer Financing

Since its inception, Solayer has gone through three significant rounds of fundraising:

• In January 2025, raising $10.5 million at a valuation of $350 million, with undisclosed participants!

• In August 2024, raising $12 million in a seed round at an $80 million valuation led by Polychain, with participation from YZi Labs, Hack VC, Nomad Capital, ABCDE Capital, etc.

• In July 2024, Solayer completed an undisclosed amount in a pre-seed round, which included Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal.

Summary of Solayer

Solayer's technological path is innovative, but its frequent narrative adjustments and high valuations, along with unlocks, have raised concerns. If the team can focus on the direction of hardware acceleration and fulfill the promise of a million TPS, it may become an important infrastructure within the Solana ecosystem. However, launching most platforms at TGE has already proven their capability. Referring to the 2025 roadmap, Solayer will introduce the SVM blockchain InfiniSVM, which is a typical crossover in the SVM track. Amidst the recent downturn in the crypto sector, the TGE performance has been overall acceptable.