As a dark horse project in the Solana ecosystem, Solayer leverages the advantages of decentralized cloud infrastructure to offer users a restaking pathway to earn rewards. On February 8, the Solayer Foundation announced its founding airdrop event for the native governance token LAYER of the Solayer ecosystem on social media, and eligibility for the airdrop can be checked.

Introduction to the Solayer Project

Solayer is building infiniSVM to scale Solana, a hardware-accelerated SVM with a multi-execution cluster architecture connected through SDN and RDMA for infinite scaling, achieving 100 Gbps while maintaining atomic state. Its core goal is to leverage Solana's security and efficiency to create a platform specifically designed for DeFi applications.

Tags: Infrastructure, Layer1, LSD

Ecosystem: Solana

Established: 2024

Team of Solayer

In January 2025, Solayer announced the acquisition of Fuzzland, a team that developed the testing tool Ityfuzz, supporting several Web3 companies. The two teams will work together to advance Solana native SVM expansion. The core team is introduced as follows:

1. Co-founder: Rachel Chu

Rachel Chu is a co-founder of Solayer, previously a core developer at Sushiswap.

2. Co-founder: Jason Li

Jason Li is a co-founder of Solayer/MPCVault. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Berkeley.

3. Strategic and Growth Lead of Solayer: Ryan Clark

Ryan Clark is the Strategic and Growth Lead of Solayer, formerly Chief Growth Officer at nftperp and has worked at 1kx. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame.

Solayer Project Financing

July 2, 2024: Solayer completes Pre-seed round financing, amount undisclosed. This includes Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, Marinade core contributor Michael Repetny, Solend founder Rooter, Tensor co-founder Richard Wu, crypto KOL Ansem, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, among others.

August 27, 2024: Solayer completes a $12 million seed round financing, with a valuation of $80 million. Polychain Capital led the round, with participation from Big Brain Holdings, Hack VC, Nomad Capital, Race Capital, ABCDE, and Maelstrom.

Potential Benefits of Solayer

Solayer's approach offers several potential benefits for users of DeFi applications on its platform:

1. Increased Security: By inheriting the security of Solana, users can feel more secure in protecting their funds within DeFi applications based on Solayer.

2. Faster Transaction Speeds: Efficient shared validator network and dedicated block space allocation promise faster transaction processing times for users.

3. More Innovative DeFi Applications: The scalability and customization offered by Solayer may pave the way for the development of more complex and innovative DeFi applications.

Economic Model of Solayer

Solayer announced LAYER tokenomics, with a maximum supply of 1 billion and an initial circulation of 220 million. The specific allocation plan is as follows:

1. Community and Ecosystem (51.23%):

• 34.23% allocated for ongoing R&D, developer programs, ecosystem development, and other user activities

• 14% for community activities/incentives (12% reserved for Genesis Drop, including rewards for early adopters and other initial claiming activities)

• 3% allocated through Emerald Card community sales

2. Core Contributors: 17.11% allocated to core contributors and advisors

3. Investors: 16.66% allocated to Investors

4. Foundation: 15% allocated to the Solayer Foundation to support its vertical product expansion and network development

Solayer Airdrop

Solayer announced TGE and claim dates! Currently, Solayer airdrop can only check eligibility but not see the quantity!!!

Check Entry: https://claim.solayer-foundations.com

Allocation Checker: February 10

TGE and Claim Date: February 11, airdrop claims will be open for 30 days.

Conclusion

Solayer is still a relatively new project, and its long-term success depends on several factors. The acceptance of its Restaking model by developers and the overall growth of the Solana DeFi ecosystem will be key. Furthermore, Solayer needs to ensure the efficient and secure operation of its shared validator network to maintain user trust.

Solayer has the potential to become a cloud infrastructure supporting widespread adoption of scalable and complex applications, thus driving the development of the entire ecosystem!