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Sonic publicly revealed that it ended its five-year partnership with Wintermute. A few hours prior, the market maker dumped over $850,000 in S tokens, causing a 6% price drop. Wintermute was involved in a controversial token dump last month, but today’s events may be part of a normal business interaction. Sonic claimed no foul play, stating that the market maker sold token holdings to return loaned money. Wintermute and Sonic Part Ways Sonic (formerly Fantom) has been on an impressive run since launching its native token in January. It hit $1 billion in TVL in only 66 days, and continued its forward momentum with a Binance airdrop. However, Sonic’s price fell dramatically over the last few hours, as the market maker Wintermute began offloading around $857,000 in S tokens. Sonice (S) Price Chart. Source: TradingView Intel Scout, a Sonic ecosystem decoder, was the first to connect S’s price action with Wintermute’s token dumping. He claimed that the market maker sold around 3 million S tokens in 24 hours, and several other whales disposed of even more. Sonic’s anonymous Head of Strategy responded to these claims, revealing that the companies had split ways: 24 hours ago, we informed @wintermute_t that we will not be renewing our MM contract. We have been using WM exclusively for 5 years of service. We have engaged with other MM firms who are willing to provide MM++, they get involved in our DeFi ecosystem, engage with applications… — assistant.sonic (@SonicAssistant) May 15, 2025 Sonic’s Head of Strategy went on to state that the company was in talks with several market makers to replace Wintermute. Specifically, they claimed that CEX only support is “simply no longer enough,” and that this successor needs to proactively engage with Sonic’s DeFi ecosystem, community, apps, and developer team. Even if Sonic…

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