Unveiling How the SVM Public Chain is Creating Waves in the Web3 Track
This article originates from Luke, written by Mars Finance, and compiled, translated, and authored by Foresight News.
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Introduction: The SOON Airdrop Feast, A Victory of Community Co-construction
On May 19, 2025, the Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) announced its launch on Binance Alpha, with token trading and airdrop activities set to commence 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 promoting 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: Red Pill Cabal participants, holders of the Seasoned Sooner identity in 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, to the upcoming token issuance – is reshaping the Web3 user path. This article will delve into why SOON chooses to “engage in flair,” its token airdrop, NFT strategy, unique gameplay of live trading, and its current product architecture, revealing how this SVM public chain is creating waves in the Web3 track.
Why Should a Public Chain “Engage in Flair”?
Readers may wonder: Why would a public chain not focus solely on technology, but instead be keen on NFTs and live trading, which seem more superficial? The answer lies in SOON’s development history and the strategic choices of its team. Looking back at the early days of SOON’s establishment, intense debates erupted within the team regarding the development direction: should they prioritize building an unbreakable technology, or wholeheartedly embrace 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, eliminating cross-chain bridge hacking incidents – a feat that other SVM projects have yet to achieve. However, CEO Joanna Zeng firmly believed that SOON must be community-driven, abandoning the traditional VC model, and quickly delivering products that are valuable to the community, even at the cost of sacrificing some initial technical perfection.
This conflict nearly led to the team’s disintegration but unexpectedly resulted in a core breakthrough for SOON. After three months of hard work, SOON launched a decoupled SVM, achieving not only a combination of high efficiency and high security but also reconstructing the Layer 2 derivation mechanism, supporting horizontal scaling suites, and integrating the Firedancer client, pushing TPS (transactions per second) potential to 650,000. Meanwhile, SOON did not stop at technology, but rapidly launched InterSOON, RedPill, COMMing SOON NFTs, and BigBang events, building a solid community ecosystem. Subsequently, SOON launched svmBNB, soonBase mainnet, and five collaborating SVM chains, with the infrastructure team developing user-oriented simpfor.fun, opening the era of live trading.
SOON’s “flair” is not merely a gimmick but a balance between technology and community. Joanna candidly stated in a public letter that the successful TGE of Uniswap and Arbitrum inspired SOON: the combination of product and community is the future of Web3. Solana has also emerged from its low point due to product and community, whereas projects like Movement, which merely “scream community” without products, frequently face issues after issuing tokens. SOON’s choice is clear and firm: leveraging a high-performance SVM chain as a foundation, using NFTs and live trading as tools to create a blockchain ecosystem that users can genuinely use and love. This strategy of “hardcore technology + community flair” sets SOON apart in the Web3 track.
NFT Sales: A Clever Game Between Community and Capital
SOON’s COMMing SOON NFT is the “stroke of genius” in its community strategy. In early 2024, the NFT minting event attracted $200 million in subscriptions within 16 hours, being over-subscribed by eight times, becoming a phenomenal event in the industry. SOON designed three tiers of NFTs to meet different user needs:
- $900 NFT: Airdrops 3,200 $SOON, linear unlocking over 3 months;
- $2,850 NFT: Airdrops 12,800 $SOON, locked for 12 months, then linear unlocking;
- $22,500 NFT: Airdrops 250,000 $SOON, locked for 12 months, then linear unlocking over 36 months.
This tiered mechanism ensures that 51% of tokens are allocated 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 lock-up mechanism, showcasing its clever balance between community and capital.
The success of the NFTs stems from SOON’s community culture. Unlike projects like Movement, which merely “scream community” without products, SOON’s NFT activities are built on solid technology and product foundations. Ongoing activities like Red Pill and the BigBang plan continually stimulate community participation, with NFT holders being not just early investors in tokens but co-builders of the SOON ecosystem. On the X platform, NFT holders actively share 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, the LiveTrade mode, which integrates on-chain copy trading with live streaming scenarios, serving as a super channel for Web3 users to acquire. simpfor.fun allows users to copy top addresses’ trading strategies with one click, enabling participation in on-chain trading without complex research, with P&L data being instantly transparent. This design leverages the public nature of blockchain, significantly lowering the entry barrier for Web3, making it suitable for newcomers.
LiveTrade elevates simpfor.fun to new heights. In the live streaming scenario, Twitch or SOOP streamers guide viewers to follow “smart money” addresses to trade through plugins, allowing streamers to earn 80% commissions without needing trading experience, while viewers can easily enter Web3 through simple operations. For example, a gaming streamer demonstrates how to copy high-return address trades during a live stream, and viewers can participate by clicking on the plugin, while the streamer earns commissions from the trades. This model opens up a low-threshold 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 onto the chain. SOON’s high-performance SVM chain supports millisecond transaction confirmations, while simpfor.fun provides convenient tools for ordinary users to participate in RWA trading. Compared to fragmented short videos, the real-time interaction and community stickiness of live streaming make LiveTrade an ideal entry point for Web3. On the X platform, early testers described LiveTrade as “like Douyin for Web3,” demonstrating its disruptive potential.
Product Architecture: SVM-Driven Ecological Closed Loop
The product architecture of SOON centers around the decoupled SVM, constructing an ecological closed loop based on “high-performance infrastructure + user touchpoints + cross-chain connectivity,” supporting the implementation of its “flair.”
- SOON Mainnet and SOON Stack: Technical Engine
SOON Mainnet is an Ethereum Layer 2 solution, achieving high-performance execution based on the decoupled SVM. The decoupled design separates the execution layer of SVM from Solana’s Tower BFT consensus, retaining Sealevel parallel processing and localized cost markets, enhancing security through fault proof mechanisms. Its throughput is dozens of times higher than EVM Rollups, reducing transaction costs to 10%, supporting high-frequency scenarios like DeFi and GameFi. - SOON Stack is a modular Rollup framework, allowing developers to deploy SVM Rollups on Layer 1 chains like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Cosmos. Developers can choose settlement layers (like Ethereum) and data availability layers (like Celestia), customizing high-performance chains. After integrating the Firedancer client, the TPS of SOON Stack is expected to reach 650,000, supporting high-frequency trading of RWAs. The decoupled SVM promoted by CTO Andrew took three months, ensuring the balance of security and performance, laying the technical foundation for SOON.
- simpfor.fun and LiveTrade: User Touchpoints
simpfor.fun and LiveTrade are SOON’s user touchpoints, attracting Web3 newcomers through simplified interactions. The copy trading of simpfor.fun allows users to easily replicate high-return strategies, while LiveTrade amplifies its impact through live streaming scenarios. Together, they combine SOON’s high-performance chain, providing a seamless experience for RWA trading and becoming the growth engine of the SOON ecosystem. - InterSOON: Multi-Chain Link
InterSOON is a cross-chain protocol that achieves native interoperability between 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, supporting cross-chain applications like DeFi, making SOON a multi-chain hub.
Dual-Driving Force of Community and Technology
SOON’s “flair” is inseparable from the synergy of technology and community. Early on, the team had disagreements over technical security (CTO Andrew) and community priority (CEO Joanna), ultimately launching the decoupled SVM within three months while rapidly delivering products like simpfor.fun, resolving the conflict. This balance permeates SOON’s development: NFT sales and Red Pill activities ignite community enthusiasm, while high-performance chains and LiveTrade provide product support. Joanna emphasizes, “SOON is the SOON of the community.” On the X platform, community members refer to it as “the next dark horse of the Solana ecosystem.”
The Future: The Flair Factory of Web3
SOON’s launch on Binance Alpha and the airdrop will bring it 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, to the upcoming token issuance, SOON’s “flair” not only ignites the imagination of Web3 but also sketches a future of multi-chain integration in the interweaving of technology and community. This SVM public chain is writing its own legend with innovation and vitality.
