Solayer Reveals Reward-Earning Emerald Card for Spending on SVM Chain

Solayer, a Solana-based staking platform and a hardware-accelerated SVM blockchain network, has announced the launch of the Emerald Card.

According to the press release shared with Cryptonews, this credit card is designed for crypto native users to spend and earn rewards.

It offers onchain transactions in order to remove off-ramping, centralized exchanges, and preloading fiat. This creates “an experience akin to traditional payments.”

The Emerald Card is integrated within Solayer’s InfiniSVM’s infrastructure. The team provides it alongside their restaking, sUSD, and sSOL products, it says.

At launch, the card supports transferring funds from Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) wallets. The team plans to add additional chains in the coming months, including EVM.

Moreover, the card comes with Apple Pay and Android Pay integration to provide additional payment methods without traditional bank accounts.

Per the team, “top cardholders will be eligible to receive a premium, physical, metal card.”

Furthermore, Emerald Card was originally a part of a Solayer community sale with over 40,000 participants. At the start, the card is available to these members

Meanwhile, Solayer says it’s building InfiniSVM, a hardware-accelerated SVM blockchain. It also has a product suite on top of InfiniSVM.

In late October 2024, Solayer launched sUSD, a synthetic stablecoin backed by real-world assets (RWA), to offer a decentralized alternative to existing stablecoins. This stablecoin is backed by a basket of low-risk assets such as US Treasury bills and government bonds, it claims.

1/ today, we unveil the Solayer USD (#sUSD) protocol

the first RWA-backed synthetic stablecoin

anyone with $5 can access tokenized real world assets, starting with U.S. Treasury Bill, now live on @Solana

in partnership with @OpenEden_Labs

> https://t.co/Oeu66HNOQd pic.twitter.com/TzkpSBM1Dz

— Solayer (@solayer_labs) October 29, 2024

In August that year, Solayer secured an investment from Binance Labs to improve the security and functionality of dapps on the Solana blockchain, scale its operations, and integrate new protocols into the Solana ecosystem.

SolanaID Partnership, Rewards Program

Solayer has partnered with SolanaID as part of the Emerald Card launch. This partnership allows users to “advance their onchain reputation with each transaction.”

Furthermore, “reputable participants” will be able to claim rewards earlier than the general public.

The recently acquired Fuzzland will provide additional security, the team says.

According to Ben Showard, Head of Growth at SolanaID, Emerald Card is “a huge step forward in connecting real-world activity with your crypto identity.” It transforms yield-bearing digital assets into real-world dollars for spending. “It is also a path for users to build up their internet reputation utilizing Solana ID [and] enjoy perks from every corner of the Solana ecosystem.”

1/ Presenting Solayer 2025 Roadmap:

Solayer InfiniSVM – a hardware-accelerated SVM blockchain – the grand finale of our vision

it is an infinitely scalable multi-execution cluster architecture connected via SDN and RDMA to achieve 100 Gbps while maintaining an atomic state pic.twitter.com/9sPV9JhqU6

— Solayer (@solayer_labs) January 6, 2025

Moreover, the team will launch the Emerald Rewards program shortly after the card launch. This will allow holders to accumulate a stake in pre-TGE protocols and projects, earn protocol-specific tokens, gain access to staking incentives, and participate in airdrops.

Additionally, rewards may include staking incentives for passive income, early access to token distributions, tokens from specific partners, and bonuses for users who meet specific spending minimums, says the company.

Jason Li, co-founder at Solayer, commented that “advances in infrastructure and regulation have paved the way for the release of a product like the Emerald Card.”