Solana Restaking Protocol Solayer Releases 2025 Roadmap

Solayer recently revealed their exciting 2025 blueprint, which includes the introduction of the groundbreaking Solayer InfiniSVM – a high-speed, hardware-enhanced blockchain solution based on Support Vector Machines (SVM).

Presented as the ultimate realization of their concept, InfiniSVM showcases an infinitely expandable multi-processing unit arrangement. It is interlinked through Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). This configuration delivers 100 Gbps speed without compromising atomic consistency.

Solayer to Solve Solana’s Scalability Challenges

On Solana’s network, each validator uses up almost 0.8 Gigabits per second, which is close to the maximum capacity of standard consumer-grade peer-to-peer internet connections. This limitation frequently results in validation propagation failures, connection interruptions, and disruptions in consensus, due to the internet’s inability to handle such high data rates effectively.

To meet the needs that surpass our current network capabilities, it’s not just about fine-tuning software—it calls for substantial leaps in hardware technology. Solayer InfiniSVM tackles these difficulties by dynamically transforming a single processing unit into an infinite number of machines, depending on the application’s demand.

Through transferring functions like sequencing, arranging, and data storage to customizable software switches, Solayer manages to confirm transactions in just one millisecond. This innovation opens up possibilities for a distributed network that can handle processing speeds of billions of transactions every second.

In an innovation first, Solayer showcases hardware offloading for a decentralized network. This means that every second, it can handle transactions involving billions of users exchanging USDC, along with millions of users jumping onto the same meme token on Raydium, as per our development plan.

The blueprint further presents a unique consensus mechanism that combines Proof-of-Authority and Stake. This allows the ‘mega influencers’ to process up to a million transactions per second (TPS) and validate them using provers. Additionally, Solayer’s product line, including sSOL and sUSD, will be seamlessly incorporated as assets that generate yields.

Users can invest, reinvest, gain rewards from, and utilize these assets across both digital (on-chain) and real-world applications. As stated by Solayer, their advancements signify the initial successful hardware offloading within a decentralized blockchain network. They foresee a future where activities such as 8K video streaming, massive multiplayer gaming, and trading can be smoothly executed on the Solayer platform.

Solana’s Complementary Scalability Proposal

In their latest GitHub update, Solana developers have suggested a solution for scalability problems: an upgrade called SIMD-215. This new approach involves using a lattice-based homomorphic hashing function, which alters the way the Solana network confirms and tracks user accounts. The goal is to enable the network to manage billions of accounts while improving computational efficiency.

At present, the Solana network regularly re-evaluates the status of all accounts, which can become progressively demanding as user count increases. The Accounts Lattice Hash proposition aims to alleviate this strain by facilitating instant validation of account states.

In simpler terms, the upgrade cuts down on the amount of work needed for computations by dealing with only modified accounts, much like cleaning just the used areas of a home instead of the whole house. Anatoly Yakovenko from Solana Labs brought up the “state growth problem” in a post he made in May 2024.

As an analyst, I find myself grappling with a fundamental issue: the creation of new accounts necessitates the creation of these new entities themselves. Consequently, we need a way to authenticate that this newly created account is indeed fresh. This becomes straightforward if our runtime maintains a comprehensive index of all existing accounts. However, relying on such a method to verify the novelty of an account comes at a cost – each node must store a complete index of every account in the runtime, which can be resource-intensive. Yakovenko elaborated on this point.

In simpler terms, performing this global indexing can be quite costly for network devices. However, the suggested lattice system makes this task easier by avoiding the necessity of repeated calculations from scratch.

Implementing the Accounts Lattice Hash update could significantly boost the speed and productivity within the Solana network. This upgrade would empower the blockchain to manage rapid user expansion without compromising its performance.

Currently, Solana is leading the way in the field of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), with its decentralized exchanges (DEXs) outperforming those on Ethereum in terms of trading volume. As per DefiLlama’s data, Solana’s DEXs achieved a staggering $113 billion in trading volume last month, significantly more than Ethereum’s $78.9 billion.

Introducing Solayer InfiniSVM and considering Accounts Lattice Hash, Solana is poised to reach unprecedented levels of scalability and efficiency in the realm of blockchain technology.

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2025-01-07 14:11