Solayer

Solayer is a hardware-accelerated blockchain network built natively on the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM), designed to move money at the speed of hardware with no limitations imposed by traditional software-bound blockchains. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, Solayer leverages RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) and InfiniBand networking to bypass operating system network stacks, enabling direct high-speed data transfers and achieving over 1 million transactions per second on its InfiniSVM-powered chain. The platform offers a suite of financial products including sSOL native staking with hardware-accelerated yield, sUSD a treasury-backed stablecoin earning T-bill yield in USDC, and Solayer Pay for global on-chain spending and international payments. The company raised a $12 million seed round led by Polychain Capital and Hack VC, with additional investment from Binance Labs.