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Discover why Sonic has become a new epicenter of DeFi and what opportunities its rebranding unlocks for the community. Sonic introduced a set of design and economic solutions aimed at long-term sustainability and growth. With an extensive ecosystem, no significant insider unlocks of the $S token, and a large pool of rewards, Sonic can compete not only with emerging blockchains like Berachain and HyperEVM, but also with established leaders such as Base, Solana, and Sui. Architecture and Speed Sonic is an evolution of the Fantom blockchain. While both blockchains were designed with a focus on delivering high-performance, scalable solutions for DeFi, the new Sonic blockchain brings improved performance, cost efficiency, and fresh incentives to enhance the experience for users and developers alike. The biggest change lies in Sonic’s core architecture. While Fantom already used a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) structure in its Lachesis consensus system, Sonic enhanced this approach with a more optimized and tightly integrated DAG system. The DAG structure allows transactions to be processed asynchronously, which enables multiple transactions to be confirmed simultaneously, and the Lachesisconsensus mechanism is an asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (aBFT) protocol. This allows transactions to be processed asynchronously and in parallel, which enables higher throughput and near-instant finality. While Fantom Opera could handle anywhere from 15 to 2,000 transactions per second (TPS), Sonic aims for much higher—up to 10,000 TPS. Transaction finality has also improved from 1–2 seconds to just 720 milliseconds in Sonic. Sonic replaces the $FTM token with a new token called $S, which is exchanged at a 1:1 ratio. This move introduces deflationary mechanisms to gradually reduce the total token supply, which may benefit holders over time. Moreover, Sonic has implemented a dual airdrop mechanism, which includes Sonic Points and Sonic Gems to incentivize participation in its ecosystem. Sonic Points are…

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