Live-streamed trading, selling NFTs, and soon-to-launch token—what's the SVM public chain SOON up to?
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Live-streamed trading, selling NFTs, and soon-to-launch token—what's the SVM public chain SOON up to?
Unveiling how this SVM public chain is making waves in the Web3 space.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Luke, Mars Finance
Introduction: The SOON Airdrop Feast, a Victory of Community Co-Construction
On May 19, 2025, Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) announced its launch on Binance Alpha and will initiate token trading and an airdrop event on May 23, marking a new chapter in the global expansion of its high-performance SVM public chain. SOON's airdrop program lies at the heart of its community strategy, aiming to reward early supporters and drive ecosystem growth. According to official disclosures, the $SOON token has a total supply of 1 billion, with 51% allocated to the community and over 12% specifically dedicated to airdrops, distributed via Binance Alpha’s points system and ecosystem tasks. This allocation ensures broad community participation, encompassing a diverse range of contributors from technical developers to socially active users.
Airdrop participants include the following groups: Red Pill Cabal members, Discord Seasoned Sooner role holders, Dedicated SOON Geeks, Contributor Role recipients, Big Bang Season 1/2 participants, interSOON early supporters, SOON Eco Pioneers, Early Pioneer NFT holders, SOON Kaito Leaderboard achievers, SOON Missionaries, Builder Badge NFT holders, svmBNB early supporters, and other contributor role holders. These groups have energized the SOON ecosystem through technical development, community engagement, NFT minting, and more.
SOON’s “creative moves”—from live trade copying to NFT sales and the upcoming token launch—are reshaping the Web3 user journey. This article will deeply analyze why SOON chose to embrace these innovations, its token airdrop, NFT strategy, the unique mechanics of live trade copying, and its current product architecture, revealing how this SVM chain is making waves in the Web3 landscape.
Why Would a Public Chain Engage in "Creative Moves"?
Readers may wonder: why doesn't a public chain focus solely on technology instead of engaging in “creative moves” like NFTs and live trade copying? The answer lies within SOON’s developmental history and strategic decisions by its team. In SOON’s early days, internal debates erupted over its direction: should it prioritize building unbreakable technology or fully embrace community growth? CTO Andrew advocated for technological supremacy, pushing for a fully decoupled SVM to ensure SOON’s Rollup includes fraud proof mechanisms, eliminating bridge hack risks—a feat not yet achieved by other SVM projects. However, CEO Joanna Zeng firmly believed that SOON must be community-driven, rejecting traditional VC models and rapidly delivering valuable products to the community, even if it meant sacrificing some technical perfection in the short term.
This conflict nearly fractured the team but unexpectedly led to SOON’s core breakthrough. After three months of intense effort, SOON launched its decoupled SVM, achieving both high performance and high security while re-architecting the Layer2 derivation mechanism to support horizontal scaling and integrating the Firedancer client, pushing TPS (transactions per second) potential up to 650,000. At the same time, SOON didn’t stop at technology—quickly launching InterSOON, RedPill, COMMing SOON NFT, and the BigBang campaign, building a robust community ecosystem. Subsequently, SOON rolled out svmBNB, soonBase mainnet, and five partner SVM chains, while its infrastructure team developed the user-facing simpfor.fun, ushering in the LiveTrade era of live trade copying.
SOON’s “creative moves” are not mere stunts but a balanced approach between technology and community. In a public letter, Joanna admitted that Uniswap and Arbitrum’s TGE successes inspired SOON: the fusion of product and community is Web3’s future. Solana revived itself through products and community, whereas projects like Movement that merely “shout about community” without real products faced repeated issues after token issuance. SOON’s choice is clear and resolute: build upon a high-performance SVM chain, leverage NFTs and live trade copying as tools, and create a blockchain ecosystem users can actually use and love. This “hardcore tech + creative community” strategy sets SOON apart in the Web3 space.
NFT Sales: A Clever Game Between Community and Capital
SOON’s COMMing SOON NFT is a masterstroke in its community strategy. In early 2024, the NFT minting event attracted $200 million in subscriptions within 16 hours, oversubscribed by 8x, becoming an industry phenomenon. SOON designed three tiers of NFTs to meet different user needs:
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$900 NFT: airdrops 3,200 $SOON, linearly unlocked over 3 months;
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$2,850 NFT: airdrops 12,800 $SOON, locked for 12 months then linearly unlocked;
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$22,500 NFT: airdrops 250,000 $SOON, locked for 12 months then linearly unlocked over 36 months.
This tiered mechanism allocates 51% of tokens to the community, attracting both short-term participants and incentivizing long-term builders. The NFT sale not only raised funds for SOON but also prevented concentrated sell pressure through vesting mechanisms, demonstrating a clever balance between community and capital.
The success of the NFT stems from SOON’s community culture. Unlike projects such as Movement that “talk about community” without delivering products, SOON’s NFT events were built on solid technological and product foundations. Initiatives like Red Pill and BigBang continuously drove community involvement. NFT holders are not just early token investors but co-builders of the SOON ecosystem. On X, NFT holders actively share unlock progress, showcasing strong community cohesion.
Live Trade Copying: The Disruptive Mechanics of LiveTrade
SOON’s latest “creative move” is the LiveTrade model introduced on simpfor.fun and its V2 version, merging on-chain trade copying with live streaming—an ultimate gateway for Web3 user acquisition. simpfor.fun allows users to one-click copy top address trading strategies, enabling participation in on-chain trading without complex research, with profit-and-loss (P&L) data displayed transparently in real time. Leveraging blockchain’s transparency, this design drastically lowers the barrier to Web3, ideal for beginners.
LiveTrade takes simpfor.fun to the next level. In live streams, Twitch or SOOP streamers use plugins to guide viewers in following “smart money” addresses. Streamers earn 80% commission without needing trading expertise, while viewers enter Web3 through simple actions. For example, a gaming streamer demonstrates how to copy high-return trades; viewers click the plugin to join, and the streamer earns commission from the trades. This model opens low-barrier monetization for streamers while bringing massive user traffic to SOON.
LiveTrade’s strategic insight lies in its precise capture of real-world assets (RWA). As shown at the Solana Accelerate conference, Circle’s USD, BlackRock’s equities, and Hyperliquid’s gold are accelerating onto blockchains. SOON’s high-performance SVM chain supports millisecond transaction confirmation, while simpfor.fun provides ordinary users with easy access to RWA trading. Compared to fragmented short videos, live streaming’s real-time interaction and community stickiness make LiveTrade an ideal Web3 entry point. On X, early testers describe LiveTrade as “like TikTok live commerce for Web3,” highlighting its disruptive potential.
Product Architecture: An SVM-Powered Ecosystem Loop
SOON’s product architecture centers on the decoupled SVM, building an ecosystem loop around “high-performance infrastructure + user touchpoints + cross-chain connectivity” to support the execution of its “creative moves.”
1. SOON Mainnet & SOON Stack: The Technical Engine
SOON Mainnet is an Ethereum Layer2 solution leveraging a decoupled SVM for high-performance execution. The decoupled design separates SVM’s execution layer from Solana’s Tower BFT consensus, retaining Sealevel’s parallel processing and localized fee markets, while enhancing security via fraud proofs. 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 L1 chains like Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Cosmos. Developers can choose settlement layers (e.g., Ethereum) and data availability layers (e.g., Celestia) to customize high-performance chains. With the integration of the Firedancer client, SOON Stack is expected to achieve a TPS of 650,000, supporting high-frequency RWA trading. The decoupled SVM pushed by CTO Andrew took three months to complete, ensuring a balance between security and performance, laying SOON’s technical foundation.
2. simpfor.fun & LiveTrade: User Engagement Tools
simpfor.fun and LiveTrade serve as SOON’s user touchpoints, attracting Web3 newcomers through simplified interactions. simpfor.fun’s trade copying enables users to easily replicate high-return strategies, while LiveTrade amplifies its reach through live streaming. Combined with SOON’s high-performance chain, they deliver seamless experiences for RWA trading, acting as growth engines for the SOON ecosystem.
3. InterSOON: The Multi-Chain Bridge
InterSOON is a cross-chain protocol that enables native interoperability between SOON and public chains like Solana and TON via message-passing relays and sequencers. Its modular architecture ensures efficient and secure cross-chain operations, with Ethereum providing settlement-layer state guarantees. InterSOON eliminates ecosystem fragmentation, supports cross-chain applications like DeFi, and positions SOON as a multi-chain hub.
Dual-Drive of Community and Technology
SOON’s “creative moves” rely on the synergy between technology and community. Initially, the team clashed over technical security (CTO Andrew) versus community-first (CEO Joanna), but ultimately delivered the decoupled SVM within three months while rapidly launching products like simpfor.fun, resolving the tension. This balance runs throughout SOON’s evolution: NFT sales and Red Pill campaigns ignite community passion, while high-performance chains and LiveTrade provide product strength. Joanna emphasizes: “SOON is the community’s SOON.” On X, community members call it “the next dark horse in the Solana ecosystem.”
The Future: A Factory of Web3 Creativity
SOON’s listing on Binance Alpha and its airdrop will bring it global users, while LiveTrade and NFT strategies continue driving ecosystem growth. As the RWA market explodes, SOON’s high-performance chain and trade-copying tools will seize new opportunities. From live trade copying to NFT sales and the upcoming token launch, SOON’s “creative moves” are not only igniting imagination in Web3 but also sketching a future of multi-chain convergence through the interplay of technology and community. This SVM chain is writing its own legend with innovation and vitality.
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