Welcome $LAYER, Tokenomics, and 2nd Distribution

Welcome $LAYER, Tokenomics, and 2nd Distribution

Welcome $LAYER, Tokenomics, and 2nd Distribution

Solayer Core

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Gm from the basedment:


Solayer's core focus is on infinitely scaling the SVM.


In 2024, with more than $500 million staked, over 200,000 active users, and bluechip AVS partners, we have become the leading restaking platform for enhancing internal Solana applications via stake-weighted quality of service.


In 2025, we are doubling down our thesis, introducing the concept of hardware offloading of blockchain into programmable hardware chips that is infinitely scalable – presenting the first 1MM TPS network in the world, InfiniSVM.


$LAYER - Connecting the Solayer Ecosystem


Infrastructure on the bottom. Vertical stack on the top.


Our team is doing more than just delivering the most scalable infrastructure through InfiniSVM. We're building a tightly integrated suite of vertical products within our own ecosystem. sSOL, sUSD, and our Emerald Card are only the beginning, with a number of other products in the pipeline being tested at the speed of light with InfiniSVM.


Underpinning all of this is $LAYER, which is both the native token for InfiniSVM as well as the governance token for Solayer’s protocol suites.


Token Distribution

To ensure broad decentralization, $LAYER is being distributed through both the community sale of our Emerald Card and our genesis airdrop for early adopters.


The max supply of $LAYER will be 1,000,000,000 tokens, distributed across three main categories, with an initial circulating supply of 210,000,000 $LAYER:


Community & Ecosystem [51.23%]

  • 34.23% is for the continued R&D, developer program, and ecosystem growth, and other user activities

  • 14% is for community events/incentives [12% is reserved for Genesis Drop, which includes rewarding early adopters and other initial claim activities]

  • 3% is distributed via the Emerald Card community sale


Core Contributors

  • 17.11% for core contributors and advisors


Investors

  • 16.66% has been sold to investors


Foundation

  • 15% is allocated to the Solayer Foundation to support our vertical product expansion and network development



LAYER Vesting Schedule

$LAYER tokens will be emitted over time. Vesting schedule follows the below:

  • Genesis Drop: fully unvested at launch

  • Emerald Card Community Sale: fully unvested at launch

  • Community incentives: linearly vested for 6 months

  • Community and Ecosystem: vested every 3 months over 4 years

  • Foundation: vested every 3 months over 4 years

  • Team & Advisors: 1 year cliff, 3 years linear vesting

  • Investors: 1 year cliff, 2 years linear vesting


Token Design

$LAYER has utility across the entire Solayer ecosystem. At launch the utility will be centered on governance, with a Network-specific utility becoming available with InfiniSVM, and future protocol-level utility with our incoming vertical product suites.

  • Governance [current]

    • Protocol upgrades, such as adding supported assets

    • Key ecosystem initiatives, such as grants

  • Participate in Proof of Stake consensus for Decentralized Verification to earn block rewards [future, subject to design change]

    • By working to verify proofs securing Solayer, verifiers get rewarded with the Solayer token

  • Gas token to transact on the Solayer network [future, subject to design change]

$LAYER Genesis Drop

The second LAYER distribution is for existing community members who’ve been with us since launching in 2024.


Solayer is reserving 12% total for Solayer community members, integration partners, and liquidity providers as recognition of bootstrapping an ecosystem, and those who will continue our journey in 2025:

  • Solayer sSOL and sUSD holders

  • Users that have delegated sSOL to AVS partners

  • Users that have deposited sSOL or sUSD in partnered DeFi protocols

  • Users that have deposited whitelisted LSTs on Solayer

  • Users that have deposited with Solayer through partner and wallet campaigns

  • Other claim initiatives


Vesting

  • For early and eligible community members, genesis drop is immediately unlocked at launch, with additional $LAYER claimable over the next 6 months by Epoch


A Grassroots Movement for Hardware-Acceleration

With over 250,000 unique holders eligible at launch, we’re forging a path for hardware acceleration in blockchain. Whether it’s powering InfiniSVM or governing protocol-level products, $LAYER is an economic alignment force, s we move into the next phase of building an infinitely scalable, hardware-accelerated blockchain, $LAYER ties it all together.

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Solayer is the hardware-accelerated, high performance SVM blockchain powering the vertically integrated modern finance stack. Stake, earn, spend, and more on Solayer Chain.

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Solayer is the hardware-accelerated, high performance SVM blockchain powering the vertically integrated modern finance stack. Stake, earn, spend, and more on Solayer Chain.

Stay Updated

Be the first to get updates on the Solayer protocol.

©2026 Solayer · All Rights Reserved