Overwhelming Demand Delays Solayer’s LAYER Token Sale After 15x Registration Surge

Solayer, a restaking network built on the Solana blockchain, has announced a delay in its community sale for the LAYER token due to overwhelming demand. The sale, originally scheduled to take place earlier, has now been postponed to December 16, 2025, at 10:00 UTC. This delay comes after Buidlpad, the launchpad overseeing the sale, reported receiving 15 times more registrations than expected.

On January 10, 2025, Solayer initially announced the launch of its community sale, offering retail investors the chance to purchase LAYER tokens. These tokens would not only serve as a utility asset but also enable token holders to participate in governance, contributing to the development of Solayer’s ecosystem.

Solayer is focused on layer 2 scalability and performance improvements for decentralized applications (dApps). Through a combination of hardware-accelerated clusters, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), the network boasts 100 Gbps bandwidth and the ability to process over 1 million transactions per second (TPS). This makes Solayer a promising solution for high-performance decentralized applications.

The LAYER token will allow holders to be part of the decision-making process and contribute to the network’s growth. As part of the sale, Emerald Card holders will receive a batch of LAYER tokens at a discounted price with tokens fully unlocked.

To participate in the community sale, individuals were required to meet several conditions:

• Register on the platform.
• Have a verified X (formerly Twitter) account.
• Follow Buidlpad on X.
• Hold designated tokens.

The minimum subscription for the sale was 100 USDC (or its equivalent), and the maximum limit was set at 2,000 USDC. For whitelisted and Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), a higher subscription limit of up to 5,000 USDC was allowed.

If the sale were oversubscribed, the final allocations were set to be calculated on a pro-rata basis, and any excess funds would be refunded to participants’ wallets by 10:00 AM UTC on January 15, 2025.

The platform’s announcement of receiving 15x more registrations than anticipated prompted the delay, as Buidlpad needed additional time to accommodate the influx of interest. While the sale has been rescheduled for December 2025, no further details have been provided about the next steps or when new instructions will be made available.

Buidlpad has also taken a strong stance against bots and farming activities, ensuring a fair process for token distribution. Such practices, if discovered, could unfairly skew the distribution of tokens and are explicitly prohibited.

The delay is seen as a sign of significant interest in Solayer’s project, with many investors eager to participate in the community sale. Despite the postponement, Solayer’s vision for a high-performance decentralized ecosystem remains strong, with the project continuing to build momentum leading into its upcoming token sale.