Solayer launches $LAYER as a governance and utility token for its InfiniSVM infrastructure, aiming for over one million transactions per second with blockchain integration in programmable chips.
Solayer is emerging as one of the most ambitious players in the Solana ecosystem. In 2024, with over $500 million in staking, 200,000 active users, and leading AVS partners, the platform has solidified its position as a leader in restaking. In 2025, the ambition reaches a new level with InfiniSVM, a network designed to surpass one million transactions per second (TPS) through the integration of blockchain into programmable chips.
LAYER: an infrastructure geared towards infinity?
At the heart of this infrastructure lies $LAYER, an asset designed both as the native token of InfiniSVM and as a governance token for all of Solayer’s products.
Solayer reveals the distribution model of its LAYER token
The issuance of $LAYER follows a central principle: to promote decentralization. With a maximum supply of one billion tokens, the token distribution is designed to support innovation, community incentives, and long-term adoption.
Token distribution
- Community & Ecosystem (51.23%):
- 34.23% for research and development, developer programs, and adoption
- 14% for community events and incentives, including 12% reserved for the Genesis Drop
- 3% through the community sale of the Emerald Card
- Key Contributors (17.11%):
- Allocation for team members and advisors
- Investors (16.66%):
- Participation in project financing
- Solayer Foundation (15%):
- Funding for vertical product development and network expansion
The vesting schedule of Layer
The issuance of $LAYER is progressive, ensuring a balanced distribution and avoiding immediate inflationary pressure.
- Genesis Drop and Emerald Card Community Sale: 100% available at launch
- Community incentives: linear vesting over 6 months
- Community & Ecosystem / Foundation: quarterly vesting over 4 years
- Team and advisors: 1-year cliff, then linear vesting over 3 years
- Investors: 1-year cliff, then linear vesting over 2 years
LAYER: what utility in the Solayer ecosystem?
From its launch, $LAYER will play a fundamental role in the governance of Solayer. Eventually, its utility will extend to multiple levels of the network:
- Governance (current):
- Validation of protocol updates
- Allocation of grants for the ecosystem
- Security and consensus (future):
- Participation in the Proof of Stake consensus for decentralized transaction verification
- Allocation of rewards to verifiers securing the protocol
- Transactional role (future):
- Solayer is already teasing future use of $LAYER as a transaction fee token on the InfiniSVM network
The Genesis Drop: a special airdrop of LAYER
To reward pioneers in the ecosystem, 12% of the $LAYER supply is reserved for active community members, including:
- Holders of sSOL and sUSD
- Those who delegated their sSOL to AVS partners
- Users who deposited whitelisted LST
- Participants in partner and wallet campaigns
The Genesis Drop will be fully unlocked at launch, with additional allocations gradually released over 6 months, per epoch.
