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# What is Solayer?

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Solayer is building the restaking network natively on Solana.&#x20;

Solana serves as the internet layer, facilitating the seamless movement of data, trust, and money. Solayer leverages Solana’s economic security and superior execution capabilities as decentralized cloud infrastructure, enabling application developers to achieve a higher degree of consensus and blockspace customization.

To realize this, Solayer is a two-pronged approach:&#x20;

1. **Restaking**: ‌leverage the economic security of SOL to secure other systems.
2. **Shared Validator Network**: Solana-centric networks sharing Solana security and infrastructure.