Introduction

What is the LightLayer?

Light is a protocol built on Solana introducing ZK compression, a new primitive that enables the secure scaling of state directly on the L1.

Hyperscale state: Solana users and program developers can opt-in to compress their on-chain state via the LightLayer smart contracts. This reduces state cost by orders of magnitude while preserving the security, performance, and composability of the Solana L1.

A new design space for computation: in addition to classic on-chain compute, compressed state via the LightLayer natively supports custom ZK compute, enabling previously impossible computation designs on Solana.

The LightLayer is being built in the open, with a public beta coming soon. Stay up to date with the teams contributing to ZK compression and its RPC implementation: Light and Helius.