Tokenomics

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 on 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.

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$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.

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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 $LAYER will be **1,000,000,000 tokens**, distributed across three main categories, with an **initial circulating supply of 220,000,000$LAYER (22%)**:

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Community & Ecosystem [51.23%]

• 34.23% is for continued R&D, developer programs, ecosystem growth, and other user activities.
• 14% is for community events/incentives (including 12% reserved for the Genesis Drop to reward early adopters and initial claim activities).
• 3% is distributed via the Emerald Card community sale.

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Core Contributors [17.11%]

• Reserved for core contributors and advisors.

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Investors [16.66%]

• Allocation for investors.

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Foundation [15%]

• Allocated to the Solayer Foundation to support vertical product expansion and network development.

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LAYER Vesting Schedule

$LAYER tokens will be emitted over time, following the vesting schedule below:

• Genesis Drop: Fully unvested at launch.
• Emerald Card Community Sale: Fully unvested at launch.
• Community incentives: Linearly vested for 6 months.
• Community & 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.

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Token Design

$LAYER has utility across the entire Solayer ecosystem.
At launch, the primary utility is governance, with network-specific utility becoming available with InfiniSVM, and protocol-level utility with our incoming vertical product suites.

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Governance [current]

• Protocol upgrades, such as adding supported assets.
• Key ecosystem initiatives, such as grants.

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Future Use Cases [subject to design change]

• Participate in Proof of Stake consensus for Decentralized Verification to earn block rewards.
• Verifiers securing Solayer get rewarded with $LAYER.
• $LAYER as the gas token for transactions on the Solayer network.

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$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 community members, integration partners, and liquidity providers, recognizing those who bootstrapped the ecosystem and will continue our journey in 2025.

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Eligibility

• sSOL and sUSD holders.
• Users who delegated sSOL to AVS partners.
• Users who deposited sSOL or sUSD in partnered DeFi protocols.
• Users who deposited whitelisted LSTs on Solayer.
• Users who deposited with Solayer through partner and wallet campaigns.
• LRT protocols.
• Other claim initiatives.

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Vesting

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

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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.

As we move into the next phase of building an infinitely scalable, hardware-accelerated blockchain, $LAYER ties it all together.