The entire crypto industry is focused on the issuance of a coin by the 47th President of the United States, Trump. TRUMP has not only brought about a wealth effect, but has also subjected the entire industry to an unexpected "stress test". Not only are CEXs facing frequent withdrawal suspensions due to insufficient SOL token supply, but the Solana chain itself has also seen a surge in network load due to a large volume of transactions. This fully demonstrates that the oft-cited "excess performance" problem in the crypto industry does not exist.

The Spiral of Ecological Prosperity and Technological Development

As the scale of users and applications continues to expand, simply optimizing the software layer code is no longer sufficient to withstand the impact of extreme traffic. Taking Solana as an example, the network bandwidth consumption of a single validator node is close to 0.8 Gbps, which has already reached the limit of ordinary household or general environment networks, often leading to risks such as validators being unable to receive new block information in a timely manner (propagation delay or failure), disconnection, or inability to maintain stable communication, as well as interference with the consensus process (which in turn affects the normal packaging and block production of the entire network). Therefore, in order to further expand the capacity, it is necessary to improve the "physical level" of computing power and bandwidth, rather than just writing a few more lines of more efficient code.

At the same time, as soon as a new hot spot emerges, it can easily put even the top public chain networks under pressure and even cause congestion - for example, the TRUMP token event this time, the instant congestion often re-exposes the performance bottleneck. Without a substantial hardware-level expansion, the ecosystem will be hard-pressed to withstand the impact of extreme traffic.

To address this, Solayer has pre-reserved performance redundancy at the hardware level to withstand extreme concurrency and mass adoption outbreaks, not only by accelerating performance through hardware acceleration at the execution layer, but also by introducing a "hybrid PoA + PoS consensus (Hybrid Proof-of-Authority-and-Stake)", allowing Mega Leaders to achieve 1MM TPS in a single execution, and then converting it into "shreds" (Solana data fragments) to be synchronized to the distributed proof nodes for verification; for scenarios that require ultra-high throughput in a short period of time, this combination of hardware acceleration and "authoritative leader" mode is undoubtedly more flexible and efficient.

How InfiniSVM Copes with a Massive Influx of New Users

As the entire crypto industry focuses on "how to make it easier for new users to get started", user experience and underlying performance are equally critical. If we only make the front-end simpler and the process shorter, but cannot guarantee smooth transactions even under peak traffic or extreme scenarios, it will still be difficult to retain new users. To this end, Solayer, with the goal of "achieving infinite scalability while maintaining a single global state", has carried out a series of in-depth technical innovations around hardware acceleration and network expansion through InfiniSVM:

InfiniSVM

Inspired by the "nanosecond-level" processing approach of the high-frequency trading industry, the core processes such as signature verification, scheduling, and duplicate data checking are all offloaded to programmable chips (FPGA, SmartNIC, etc.) for execution. This approach maximizes the reduction of computational burden on the software layer, and significantly improves throughput through parallel hardware execution, and can even remain stable and efficient even under extreme pressure.

Multi-Executor Architecture

By interconnecting through a high-speed Infiniband network, the transaction processing flow traditionally handled by a single machine is decomposed and processed in parallel by multiple executors, eliminating the single point bottleneck. Faced with sudden large traffic requests (such as the launch of a popular NFT or the explosion of a chain game), the multi-executor architecture can quickly distribute the transaction pressure, thereby reducing latency and maintaining a low congestion rate.

Mega-Leader Design

Deploy 100Gbps access at the data center level, coupled with programmable switches and FPGA NICs, to pre-process, sort and schedule transactions. This way, even under high network load, packaging, block production and broadcasting can still be completed smoothly, without significant congestion or node synchronization issues. When combined with the hybrid PoA + PoS mode, the Mega-Leader can complete massive transaction processing in a single execution.

It is worth noting that although Solayer relies on a high-performance hardware environment, any node that meets the minimum hardware requirements can join the network and participate in the consensus, ensuring the decentralization and censorship resistance of the network, and preventing it from becoming centralized due to increased hardware thresholds.

Wallet/Chain Agnostic

Solayer does not require users to download a new wallet, but supports Solana ecosystem wallets such as Phantom, Solflare, and Backpack. Since the transaction signature does not contain the chain ID, DApps can directly broadcast transactions to the Solayer network, achieving an almost "seamless switching" user experience. For new users, this means no longer needing to manually operate between multiple wallets and multiple chains.

Jumbo Transactions

Support for larger transaction data volumes, allowing on-chain smart contracts or programs to have more operation space, thereby achieving more complex logic or cross-protocol interactions in a single transaction. For DApp developers, this not only enhances playability, but also provides more flexible possibilities for subsequent complex contracts and cross-chain interactions.

In addition, Solayer has also launched native yield-bearing assets such as sSOL and sUSD, allowing new users to both stake and earn while using applications; it also supports "multi-instruction transactions" for cross-chain and authorization, providing more choices for developers to build friendly and efficient DApps. Extending from the starting goal of "1MM TPS", Solayer is trying to build a blockchain ecosystem that can support massive users and diverse applications even under a single state, fully preparing for the next wave of new user influx.

Hardware and the Future: Scaling is the Starting Point, Not the Endpoint

The virtuous cycle between ecology and technology will keep the crypto industry moving forward, but the road ahead is not smooth sailing. As more application scenarios and new users join, peaks and traffic shocks will appear at any time. Whether one can successfully withstand extreme high concurrency often determines how far the ecosystem can thrive.

Currently, many projects are working to optimize the software layer, such as Solana's own Agave and Fireflies clients, trying to refine ultimate performance in scheduling, execution, and consensus. However, pure software optimization ultimately has its limits, and to break through the bottleneck of 300,000 to 500,000 transactions per second, it is necessary to rely on hardware-level programmable switches, smart network cards, FPGAs and other means to "hardwarize" more core processing flows.

While shouting the slogan "1MM TPS is the starting point, not the endpoint", Solayer has also used hardware solutions like InfiniSVM to paint the picture of its ideal world: everyone can play Minecraft, watch 8K videos, and transact at the speed of light on the Solayer chain.

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