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How does SVM reshape the Solana expansion game?
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Different from the horizontal expansion route dominated by Ethereum in the past, the Solayer team demonstrated a completely different expansion idea in the infiniSVM white paper: deeply optimizing SVM through hardware acceleration to create a million-level TPS blockchain network, which is essentially an expansion solution that deeply integrates hardware + software.
The way to expand the capacity of InfiniSVM is not to simply optimize the algorithm, but to reconstruct the SVM execution environment through microservice architecture and hardware acceleration, relying on dedicated hardware to complete some key tasks, and then achieving atomicity and consistency in the global state under high load conditions.
From the data provided by the Solayer white paper, it can be seen that the current Solana verification node requires a CPU above 3.1GHz, 500GB+ high-speed memory and 2.5TB+ high-throughput NVMe storage. Even with such a high configuration, the CPU utilization rate is only about 30% under high load, and P2P communication is close to the 1Gbps bandwidth limit of consumer-grade networks.
In fact, Solayer’s current technical position is similar. Its upgrade method of making transactions perform better in the system is not obvious in simple financial transaction scenarios, but if we think about the large-scale implementation of PayFi in the future, if Solana wants to perfectly carry the high-throughput and low-latency payment settlement infrastructure functions, the performance of TPS will be clearly perceived. In addition, there are DePIN ecology, complex chain games, AI Agent application scenarios, etc.
It is easier to see the value of a technical infra project by taking a step ahead and defining it than just looking at it from the perspective of whether it is currently useful.
