This week, Solayer—Solana's ecosystem restaking project—unveiled its 2025 roadmap, spotlighting the upcoming hardware-accelerated SVM blockchain: Solayer InfiniSVM. For Solayer, this innovation is pivotal to achieving its long-term vision.
Key Innovations & Engineering
- Hardware Acceleration: Solayer offloads most Solana components to SmartNICs and programmable switches, inspired by Solana’s Firedancer client.
- Throughput: Handles 16B+ TPS for simple workloads and 890K TPS for conflicted workloads—supporting mass-scale USDC transfers and memecoin trades.
How Solayer Chain Works
Transaction Entry:
- Enters a scalable entry cluster (millions of nodes) for probabilistic pre-execution.
Pre-Execution:
- Nodes clean and pre-execute transactions based on predicted state.
Sorting & Scheduling:
Intel Tofino switches + FPGA sorters route transactions:
- Simple Path: RDMA updates if accounts are up-to-date.
- Complex Path: SOTA scheduling for conflicted trades.
Consensus:
- PoA+PoS hybrid: Trusted entities publish "shreds" (batched trades) validated by staked provers.
User Experience Upgrades
- Hooks: Embed post-trade logic (e.g., arbitrage) via a Dutch-auction fee model (40% to initiator, 40% to program owner, 20% to network).
- Cross-Chain Calls: Atomic operations via built-in system programs.
- OAuth Wallets: Login via Google/X/Reddit.
👉 Explore Solayer’s Tech Deep Dive
FAQs
Q: How does Solayer achieve such high TPS?
A: By offloading execution to hardware (SmartNICs, FPGAs) and pre-executing trades in parallel.
Q: What’s unique about Hooks?
A: They incentivize developers via fee sharing, reducing MEV exploitation while boosting network utility.
Q: Is Solayer compatible with Ethereum?
A: Yes—its cross-chain calls enable atomic interactions with EVM chains.
Solayer merges raw performance with developer-centric design, setting a new standard for SVM chains.