Unveiling How This SVM Public Chain is Making Waves in the Web3 Arena

Written by: Luke, Mars Finance

Introduction: The SOON Airdrop Feast, A Victory of Community Co-Creation

On May 19, 2025, the Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) announced its launch on Binance Alpha, with token trading and airdrop activities set to begin on May 23, marking a new chapter in the global expansion of its high-performance SVM public chain. The airdrop plan of SOON is central to its community strategy, aimed at rewarding early supporters and driving ecological growth. According to official disclosures, the total supply of $SOON tokens is 1 billion, with 51% allocated to the community and over 12% specifically for airdrops, distributed through Binance Alpha's points system and ecological tasks. This ratio ensures broad community participation, covering a diverse group from technical contributors to socially active users.

Participants in the airdrop include the following categories: Red Pill Cabal participants, holders of the Seasoned Sooner identity on Discord, Dedicated SOON Geeks, Contributor Role recipients, Big Bang Season 1/2 participants, early supporters of interSOON, SOON Eco Pioneers, Early Pioneer NFT holders, SOON Kaito Leaderboard rankers, SOON Missionaries, Builder Badge NFT holders, early supporters of svmBNB, and other contributor identity holders. These groups have injected vitality into the SOON ecosystem through technical development, community activities, NFT minting, and more.

SOON's "flair"—from live trading to NFT sales, and the upcoming token launch—is reshaping the user journey in Web3. This article will delve into why SOON chooses to "do flair," its token airdrop, NFT strategy, unique gameplay of live trading, and current product architecture, revealing how this SVM public chain is making waves in the Web3 arena.

Why Does a Public Chain Choose to "Do Flair"?

Readers may wonder: why does a public chain not focus solely on technology but instead engage in NFTs and live trading? The answer lies in SOON's development history and the strategic choices of its team. Looking back at the early days of SOON, there was intense internal debate about the direction of development: should the priority be on building unbreakable technology or embracing the community? CTO Andrew advocated for a technology-first approach, pushing for a fully decoupled SVM to ensure that SOON's Rollup has a fault-proof mechanism, preventing cross-chain bridge hacks—an achievement not yet realized by other SVM projects. However, CEO Joanna Zeng firmly believed that SOON must be community-driven, abandoning traditional VC models to quickly deliver products of value to the community, even at the cost of some initial technical perfection.

This conflict nearly led to the team's disintegration but unexpectedly facilitated a core breakthrough for SOON. After three months of hard work, SOON launched a decoupled SVM, achieving a unity of high performance and high security, while reconstructing the Layer2 derivative mechanism to support horizontal scaling and integrating the Firedancer client, pushing TPS (transactions per second) potential to 650,000. Meanwhile, SOON did not stop at technology but quickly launched InterSOON, RedPill, COMMing SOON NFT, and BigBang events, building a solid community ecosystem. Subsequently, SOON launched svmBNB, the soonBase mainnet, and five cooperative SVM chains, while the infrastructure team developed user-oriented simpfor.fun, ushering in the LiveTrade era of live trading.

SOON's "flair" is not just for show but represents a balance between technology and community. Joanna candidly stated in an open letter that the success of Uniswap and Arbitrum's TGE inspired SOON: the combination of product and community is the future of Web3. Solana also emerged from its low point due to its product and community, while projects like Movement that merely "shout community" but lack products faced frequent issues after token issuance. SOON's choice is clear and resolute: to build a blockchain ecosystem that users can truly use and love, based on a high-performance SVM chain, leveraging NFTs and live trading. This strategy of "hardcore technology + community flair" sets SOON apart in the Web3 arena.

NFT Sales: A Clever Game Between Community and Capital

SOON's COMMing SOON NFT is a "stroke of genius" in its community strategy. In early 2024, the NFT minting event attracted $200 million in subscriptions within 16 hours, oversubscribing by eight times, becoming a phenomenon in the industry. SOON designed three tiers of NFTs to meet different user needs:

• $900 NFT: Airdrops 3,200 $SOON tokens, linear unlocking over 3 months;

• $2,850 NFT: Airdrops 12,800 $SOON tokens, locked for 12 months before linear unlocking;

• $22,500 NFT: Airdrops 250,000 $SOON tokens, locked for 12 months before linear unlocking over 36 months.

This tiered mechanism allocates 51% of the tokens to the community, attracting both short-term players and incentivizing long-term builders. The NFT sales not only raised funds for SOON but also avoided concentrated selling pressure through the locking mechanism, showcasing its clever balance between community and capital.

The success of the NFTs stems from SOON's community culture. Unlike projects like Movement that merely "shout community" but lack products, SOON's NFT activities are built on a solid foundation of technology and products. Ongoing initiatives like the Red Pill event and BigBang plan continuously stimulate community participation, with NFT holders being not just early investors in tokens but also co-builders of the SOON ecosystem. On platform X, NFT holders actively share their unlocking progress, demonstrating the strong cohesion of the community.

Live Trading: The Disruptive Gameplay of LiveTrade

SOON's latest "flair" is the simpfor.fun and its V2 version's LiveTrade mode, which merges on-chain copy trading with live streaming scenarios, serving as a super channel for Web3 user acquisition. simpfor.fun allows users to copy the trading strategies of top addresses with one click, enabling participation in on-chain trading without complex research, with real-time transparent profit and loss data (P&L). This design leverages the public nature of blockchain, significantly lowering the entry barrier for Web3, making it suitable for beginners.

LiveTrade takes simpfor.fun to new heights. In the live streaming scenario, Twitch or SOOP streamers guide viewers to follow "smart money" address trades through plugins, allowing streamers to earn 80% commissions without trading experience, while viewers can easily enter Web3 through simple operations. For example, a gaming streamer demonstrates how to copy high-yield address trades during a live stream, and viewers can participate by clicking the plugin, with the streamer earning commissions from the trades. This model opens up a low-barrier monetization path for streamers while bringing a massive user base to SOON.

The strategic vision of LiveTrade lies in its precise capture of real-world assets (RWA). The Solana Accelerate conference showed that Circle's USDC, BlackRock's US stocks, and Hyperliquid's gold are accelerating on-chain. SOON's high-performance SVM chain supports millisecond-level transaction confirmations, while simpfor.fun provides convenient tools for ordinary users to participate in RWA trading. Compared to the fragmentation of short videos, the real-time interaction and community stickiness of live streaming make LiveTrade an ideal entry point for Web3. On platform X, early testing users describe LiveTrade as "like TikTok for Web3," highlighting its disruptive potential.

Product Architecture: SVM-Driven Ecological Loop

SOON's product architecture centers around the decoupled SVM, building an ecological loop around "high-performance infrastructure + user touchpoints + cross-chain interconnectivity" to support the implementation of its "flair."

1. SOON Mainnet and SOON Stack: The Technical Engine

SOON Mainnet is an Ethereum Layer2 solution that achieves high-performance execution based on decoupled SVM. The decoupled design separates the execution layer of SVM from Solana's Tower BFT consensus, retaining Sealevel parallel processing and localized fee markets, enhancing security through fault-proof mechanisms. Its throughput is dozens of times higher than EVM Rollups, with transaction costs reduced to 10%, supporting high-frequency scenarios like DeFi and GameFi.

SOON Stack is a modular Rollup framework that allows developers to deploy SVM Rollups on L1 chains like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Cosmos. Developers can choose the settlement layer (like Ethereum) and data availability layer (like Celestia) to customize high-performance chains. After integrating the Firedancer client, SOON Stack's TPS is expected to reach 650,000, supporting high-frequency RWA trading. The decoupled SVM promoted by CTO Andrew took three months to develop, ensuring a balance between security and performance, laying the technical foundation for SOON.

2. simpfor.fun and LiveTrade: User Engagement Tools

simpfor.fun and LiveTrade are SOON's user touchpoints, attracting Web3 newcomers by simplifying interactions. The copy trading feature of simpfor.fun allows users to easily replicate high-yield strategies, while LiveTrade amplifies its impact through live streaming scenarios. Together, they leverage SOON's high-performance chain to provide a seamless experience for RWA trading, becoming the growth engine of the SOON ecosystem.

3. InterSOON: The Multi-Chain Link

InterSOON is a cross-chain protocol that achieves native interoperability between the SOON chain and public chains like Solana and TON through message-passing relays and sequencers. Its modular architecture ensures efficient and secure cross-chain operations, with the Ethereum settlement layer providing state assurance. InterSOON eliminates ecological fragmentation and supports cross-chain applications like DeFi, making SOON a multi-chain hub.

Dual-Engine Drive of Community and Technology

SOON's "flair" relies on the synergy between technology and community. In the early days, the team had disagreements between technical security (CTO Andrew) and community priority (CEO Joanna), ultimately launching the decoupled SVM within three months while quickly delivering products like simpfor.fun to resolve the conflict. This balance runs through SOON's development: NFT sales and the Red Pill event ignite community enthusiasm, while the high-performance chain and LiveTrade provide product support. Joanna emphasizes, "SOON is the SOON of the community." On platform X, community members refer to it as "the next dark horse of the Solana ecosystem."

Future: The Flair Factory of Web3

SOON's launch on Binance Alpha and its airdrop will bring global users, while LiveTrade and NFT strategies will continue to drive ecological growth. With the explosion of the RWA market, SOON's high-performance chain and copy trading tools will capture new opportunities. From live trading to NFT sales, and the upcoming token launch, SOON's "flair" not only ignites the imagination of Web3 but also outlines a future of multi-chain integration through the interplay of technology and community. This SVM public chain is writing its own legend with innovation and vitality.

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