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Welcome $LAYER, Tokenomics, and 2nd Distribution
Solana research
Feb 6, 2025
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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
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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:
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
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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
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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.