Sam.sonic

Seeing the impact of this program on builders is awesome. We are even leveraging the program to create ecosystem flywheels through the FeeM vault and have already earned ~16kUSD in rewards.

ftUSD is now available as collateral on Lend. Also, BTC borrow costs were reduced on Sonic and Ethereum through interest rate model optimization. Sonic Lend parameters were updated to make borrowing more accessible: ▸ minimum margin equity reduced: $250 → $10 ▸ minimum repayment amount reduced: $10 → $2

sonic-3:native Highlights of the week ▪️Sonic & The Clarity Act ▪️Bitcoin Pizza Giveaway ▪️AI after Dark featuring Sonic ▪️Flying Tulip Weekly Stats crossing 5M TVL on Sonic ▪️Shadow's bullish Monthly recap ▪️Sonic back in Chainspect Leaderboard ▪️Sodax adding assets on BNB, ETH & Arbitrum with Sonic continuing to serve as a core hub in the network

TVL on Sonic has crossed the $5M mark for @flyingtulip_. ▪️Lend deposits: $3.85M ▪️ftUSD supply: $1.33M ▪️USDC deposit rate: 8.95% All without external incentives. Good products scale when the yield is real. ▶️flyingtulip.com/lend/

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! 🍕 In celebration, we are giving away 10,000 $S to one lucky winner. To enter, you must: - RT this post - Comment your favorite pizza order Winner will be announced in 24 hours. Goodluck!

5.41% APY base on USDT & USDC, before even calculating incentives / points / liquid incentives. flyingtulip.com/ftusd/

so @flyingtulip_ has started all this with one signature on @SonicLabs it less than 2 seconds how? read the documentation!

Good product design can scale on Sonic without external incentives. @FlyingTulip_ is already showing it: over $4.7M in Sonic TVL with no subsidies, no points program, and no rented liquidity. Useful products attract capital because users have a reason to stay.

Sonic's Vertical Integration is outperforming expectations right out of the gate. In the first 10 weeks, early VI revenue produced ~400% more deflationary impact than fee-related burns over the same window. This is only from $USSD and @MetropolisDEX vault activity. The full VI model has barely started.

@SonicLabs @flyingtulip_ Great work between @SonicLabs and @flyingtulip_ bringing more access to USSD.

$USSD is live for ftUSD minting on @FlyingTulip_ on Sonic. Sonic’s vertically integrated stablecoin is now supported as collateral for ftUSD, giving users another way to enter Flying Tulip’s stable asset layer. With $USSD, users can mint ftUSD in one click, stake it for yield, and redeem back without an exit queue or unstaking period.

ftUSD supply on Sonic is up 21% today as @flyingtulip_ continues to scale. Mint ftUSD: 🔹USDC & USDT on ETH 🔹USDC & USSD on Sonic 🔗 flyingtulip.com/ftusd/dashboar…

New asset listed on Sonic Lend: USSD Sonic’s native stablecoin is now available in Flying Tulip’s Margin Lending market.

ftUSD caps have been increased again. On Sonic Lend: USDC: 1M -> 10M wS: 30M -> 100M Earn 5.63% on Sonic by depositing into ftUSD.

@AndreCronjeTech Free range, organic growth wins long-term. This is the exact approach our industry desperately needs to be taken seriously. Awesome to see.

5.11% on USDC on Sonic 5.27% on USDT and USDT on Ethereum - No token incentives - No subsidies - No "points" - No looping - No leverage - No "unstaking period" - No "exit queue" - Instant redemptions & liquidity Defi hasn't reached its peak yet, there is so much more to explore and build onchain.

@flyingtulip_ Amazing to see ftUSD's growth on Sonic with no incentives! 💪 Organic TVL matters.

Flying Tulip USD $1.5m earning 5.9% APY on USDC & USDT - No incentives. - No subsidies. - No looping. - No leverage. - No gimmicks. - Caps increased from $1m to $5m. Dashboard: flyingtulip.com/lend/dashboard

"The contest wrapped up with zero valid Medium or High severity findings, making it one of the cleanest contest outcomes we have seen on Sherlock." Very appreciative of Sherlock, our codebase was also one of the first public contests that really stress-tested "AI submissions", there were a lot... That being said, audits are not a silver bullet, any good security is a layered approach. Audits for smart contract code, pen testing for web infra, external policy monitoring on RPC and external infra, bounties, public auditing contests, timelocks, multisigs, proper derisking of multi geographical signers, and code level implementations (such as circuit breakers or queues) all need to be considered. In today's "new defi" of proxy upgradeable contracts, msig managed configs, external RPC inputs for onchain decision making, one bad config can drain everything.

“Gemini models are core to Sonic’s AI stack, powering Spawn and other agentic commerce tools for developers building onchain payments, applications, and autonomous workflows.” — @0xseg Read the full story of how Sonic built with Google Cloud 👇

@DunkingSquirrel @Defi_Maximalist Great read 📚

Flying Tulip’s Margin Lending is scaling on Sonic. TVL is now $1.3M ▪️ USDC deposit APY on Lend: 4.3% ▪️ Staked ftUSD APY on Sonic: 3.58% More capital efficient stablecoin activity is coming onchain to Sonic. 🔗flyingtulip.com/lend/dashboard