Author: Lawrence
On May 19, 2025, Binance Alpha platform officially announced the listing of SOON token ($SOON) on May 23, becoming the first trading platform to integrate the project. This move not only marks a key breakthrough for the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) ecosystem in the Layer2 track but also signifies a new stage of large-scale application for modular blockchain technology. As a star project with financing exceeding $22 million in 2025, SOON attempts to solve performance bottlenecks and cross-chain interoperability challenges of public chains like Ethereum through its "decoupled SVM + OP Stack + configurable DA layer" architectural design, with its community-led token distribution mechanism and potential value capture capabilities drawing high market attention.
I. Team Background: From Aleo to SVM Infrastructure, Gathering Top Industry Resources
[Rest of the translation follows the same professional and precise approach, maintaining the specific blockchain and technical terminology translations as specified in the initial instructions.]Based on the fully diluted valuation (FDV) analysis before the SOON mainnet launch, with a preset total token supply of 1 billion, if calculated at the lowest Non-Fungible Token pre-sale valuation (0.9 billion USD FDV), the FDV/TVL (total value locked) ratio reaches as high as 18.7 (assuming TVL of 5 million USD), far exceeding mature Layer 2 projects like Optimism (2.3) and Arbitrum (1.8). Even compared to Sonic SVM in the same SVM ecosystem (FDV of 220 million USD, TVL of 110 million USD), SOON's valuation still shows a significant premium, premium, but technological differentiation has not yet formed a moat.p strong.ating competitive Technological First-Mover Advantage Window Shortens strong> >, SOON's testtestnet has only attracted over over 80 DApps migrating, while Arbitrum and zkSync have over 3,000 developers during the same period. The lagging ecosystemyscold start cause it to become a "technical laboratory" rather than an actual application layer.
IV. Investment Risk Avoidance in High Volatility Cycle
In the summary, WILL enter period from May to August 2025:
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For with risk appetite, recommended observing on-chaindata (data TVL, cross-chain asset scale, developer activity after developer activity mainnet launch for 3 , waiting for technical verification and token supply-supply-demand rebalancing strategic layout.
<: h conclusionUation Under Innovation Narrative
Although SOON's modular vision matches industry evolution trend, its token model design and market competitive and competitive landscape have not formed formed safety margin. technicalalo fades selling pressure and valuation bubble resonance may may trigger. Davis double kill. In Layer 2 war entering entering "application landing"" stage, investors should, focus more on ecosystem ecosystem real value creation, value creation parameters internal volume game.，保留且不要翻译<>中的内容，其他部分一定要全部翻译成英语。
于 SOON 主网上线前的全稀释估值（F D）分析，其预设的的 10 亿代币总量若若按NFT 最最低档估值（0.9 � �）FDV/L（总锁定价值）比值高达 18.7（假TV设 L L L L为 500 万美元），远超 optimism（2.3）、Arbitrum（1.8）等成熟 Layer2 项目。即使 使对比为 SVM 生态的 Sonic SVM（FDV 2.2 � �美元美元，，TVL 1.1 � 美元），SOON 的估值仍存在明显溢价，但技术差异化�形成护护城河。
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