SVM Rollups using SOON

In this BLOKC session, Rahul, a core Developer Relations engineer at SOON, presents SOON (Solana Optimistic Network), a modular Layer 2 for high-throughput rollups built on a decoupled Solana Virtual Machine. The talk references work from Anza, creators of the Agave Solana client, alongside Hyperlane, Caldera, AltLayer, Risk Zero, and EigenDA.

What the session covers

Rahul notes that standard Solana L1 blocks spend 80 to 90 percent of their space on consensus voting traffic, which limits room for user execution. SOON addresses this by stripping consensus data out of the SVM runtime and assigning block production to a dedicated sequencer. Transaction validation moves to an off-chain derivation pipeline that settles to Ethereum L1 through EigenDA. The result is roughly 50-millisecond block times and up to 30,000 user transactions per second. SOON also adds full state merkleization to the SVM, which enables native fraud proofs and challenge windows that legacy Solana L1 cannot support.

What you can build

Developers can use the SOON Stack to deploy customizable app-chains with familiar Solana tooling such as Anchor, the SPL libraries, and Metaplex. The Inter-SOON architecture, powered by Hyperlane, sets up native liquidity bridges between Solana, Ethereum, and TON for smooth cross-chain volume.

What’s next

Following its Alpha Mainnet release, SOON is expanding onto Rollup-as-a-Service providers like Caldera and AltLayer for one-click SVM app-chains. The team is also launching a public user quest program and working with Risk Zero to add zero-knowledge proofs through a ZK-SVM.