Solana's SOON network secures funding in builder-focused round

The Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) has raised an undisclosed amount in a "cobuilder" round, attracting key figures like Solana Foundation Chair Lily Liu and Solana Labs co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko, among others, The Block reported. This round, focused exclusively on builders and excluding venture capital firms, aims to develop SOON Stack and SOON Mainnet. The goal is to create a high-throughput rollup stack for scalable decentralized applications, integrating Solana's SVM with other layer-1 blockchains.