
Haotian | CryptoInsight|May 29, 2025 08:37
I heard that @ solayer_1abs has launched InfiniSVM Devnet and has already released a usable testing environment with a peak of 340000+TPS? To be honest, when the Solana ecosystem was still at 4000TPS and PumpFun users were enduring the torment of transaction failures, Solayer's solution was not a gradual optimization, but a direct leap in scale. Where is the confidence behind this?
1) The confidence of InfiniSVM first comes from an industry reality: the pure software optimization route is approaching its limit, and hardware acceleration is just right. In the past few years, the improvement of blockchain performance has mainly relied on architectural innovation - from Bitcoin's UTXO to Ethereum's account model, from PoW to PoS, from single chain to L1+Layer2 modular stacking, all of which are breakthroughs at the software level. But now this road is getting narrower and narrower.
The reason why most high-performance chains are stuck at the threshold of tens of thousands of TPS is due to this. The 160000 TPS claimed by Aptos is mostly a theoretical value, and Sui is also difficult to sustain in practical applications due to physical bottlenecks in the general hardware architecture. Traditional CPU serial processing, network I/O latency, and memory access overhead are becoming the biggest obstacles to performance improvement due to hardware limitations.
The RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) hardware acceleration technology route chosen by InfiniSVM essentially bypasses the CPU bottleneck, allowing nodes to communicate directly at the memory level. In addition, InfiniSVM also introduces a multi actuator parallel processing model for real-time traffic optimization in conjunction with SDN (Software Defined Networking). These are all possibilities for finding new breakthroughs at the hardware level, and also an important shift in industry development.
2) InfiniSVM has chosen to be fully compatible with Solana virtual machines, which means that for developers who are already deeply rooted in the Solana ecosystem, migrating to InfiniSVM is basically a matter of "changing RPC endpoints".
The commercial value of this compatibility design is self-evident. Traditional blockchain is limited by the TPS upper limit, and many application scenarios can only stay at the conceptual stage. For example, high-frequency algorithm trading, real-time game status synchronization, etc.
The confirmation finality of InfiniSVM (0.01 second confirmation time) has breakthrough significance in many application scenarios, such as real-time interaction in blockchain games, millisecond level settlement of DEX, and high-frequency automated trading of AI agents. This is crucial for breaking through the limitations of Solana's current application scenarios.
3) InfiniSVM adopts a hybrid POAS consensus model that attempts to find a balance between performance and decentralization. Daily transactions are quickly processed through the validator network, and in case of disputes or abnormal situations, Solana mainnet serves as the final arbitration. This "fast lane+insurance mechanism" design concept is quite practical.
In fact, this design approach is not new - Polygon's early designs and various side chain solutions all had similar logic. The problem is that hardware acceleration solutions naturally raise the threshold for node operation. Although RDMA and InfiniBand technologies have strong performance, their cost and technical complexity also increase accordingly, which inevitably leads to the problem of "centralization" of the verification node network like most high-performance chains.
This logic is very practical: since the hardware acceleration route inevitably leads to the centralization of the validator network, a mature decentralized network should be borrowed as the ultimate security guarantee. Equivalent to layering the requirements of "performance" and "security" - InfiniSVM is responsible for ultimate performance, while Solana is responsible for ultimate security.
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It should be noted that at present, Devnet is still in the internal testing stage, and the blockchain status may be reset from time to time. The network data may be intermittently unstable, indicating that there is still a lot of engineering work to be done before production is ready. Especially when facing the ultimate pressure of 1 million+TPS.
Overall, InfiniSVM represents an important direction shift for blockchain Infra - from software optimization to hardware acceleration, from theoretical innovation to engineering implementation. Solayer's confidence is simply a forward-looking choice in the "technical path". (As shown in the figure below, there are nearly 100000 real-time TPS)
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