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@michaelfkong @AvgJoesCrypto @blknoiz06 @ThinkingUSD The industry is reaching a maturity where the edge cases in terms of technical performance are smaller gaps than competitors. The next wave that will grow the game is ease of onboarding and user experience. For crypto to level up it needs to be normie proof.

Vertical integration with mutual alignment is the only way. Last cycle proved chains can still raise 9 figs with ease, but the 2017 tokenomics playbook is finished. The chains actively diagnosing the core L1 value prop failure are the ones that win. No one cares about TTF, TPS, database, consensus, low gas, and high throughput etc. All of these have been commoditised (using centralised tricks) and no cares about “decentralisation” or ideology. Bandaids like using stablecoins as gas don’t fix it. Neither do recycled attempts at chasing the latest shiny trend, whether enshrined privacy or compliance rails. Until onboarding feels as frictionless as Venmo or Zelle, nothing else matters.

Has any blockchain actually given a convincing answer on how they'll be able to monetize any of the following: 1) Payments 2) RWAs 3) Enterprise Solutions 4) AI Agents

No delays. ⚡️ Full service (bridge, swap, borrow, lend, build). 💰 Gas so cheap you don’t even realize you used any $S. 🪶 Builder? All the tools and infrastructure you need. Sonic has the machine built, you just add the body to the chassis and tune to your liking 🔨

Did you know the @SonicEcosystem has many on/off ramps making it ready for you to power your Ai agents with #x402? Follow this thread for more $S 1/4 🧵

This is an interesting move 👀 It feels like something is cooking behind the scenes Ask yourself why $1M NOW? So many people have packed up and gone home but Labs is doubling down… I smell opportunity

@SonicLabs Another passive piece added to the vertical integration strategy. This is an incredible foundation being built.

@SonicLabs @devjoshstevens @Polymarket Sonic is turnkey infrastructure for this exact need

Respect for the transparency. You’re hitting on challenges we’ve seen businesses at your scale run into when real-world traffic meets the blockchain. Our team has been heads-down with leaders across the space on how an L1 can fine-tune the execution environment around what serious apps actually need: settlement certainty, predictable costs, and business-specific tooling. Polymarket is the clearest example of a system that needs web2 reliability on web3 rails. Quick thoughts from the chain side: Latency: Sonic finalizes in ~500ms, deterministically. No probabilistic confirms, no reorgs. Your “near-instant” target is already reality on an L1 stack. ~10k TPS sustained, sub-second single-slot finality, ~$0.0001 average fees. Chain migration: Doors are open, and we’re actively making bespoke improvements for serious teams. Most chains slow down as throughput climbs; Sonic is designed to get faster under high load. Cancelled transactions: At your scale, this is a throughput and execution problem. Sonic’s headroom removes the congestion vector. Deterministic finality removes the reorg vector. Your CLOB shouldn’t be dropping orders because the chain can’t keep up. Cheap gas, instant finality, battle-tested uptime, and native USDC are default. Prediction markets need reserved capacity for market makers, gasless user flows, protocol-native atomic batching, and app-critical transactions that still land when volume spikes. Would love to compare notes with your tech team on what Polymarket’s real-world throughput has taught you, and where we can build to support it. DMs open 🫡

This is my 3rd week as VP of Engineering DeFi at @Polymarket , and I'm going to be straight: the traction @Polymarket has seen has massively outpaced our infrastructure, and we haven't done nearly enough to scale to keep up. I hear you, and fixing this is our entire focus. We're a major company now, and we need to engineer like one. Here's exactly what we're doing: - Onchain data latency. We're working on making this near-instant so the experience is incredible. - Chain migration. We need more block space, cheaper gas and much smaller block times so settlement is instant. - Transactions are getting cancelled. We understand this is one of the most frustrating issues right now, and we have a complete fix coming very soon. - Massive focus on the website to make it faster, more responsive, and with better UX. - We added observability everywhere. Proper alerting so we catch issues ourselves, market makers should not be the ones telling us something is down. That's been unacceptable, and we know it. - E2e tests throughout, starting with the CLOB, so issues get caught in CI before anything ships. - CLOBv2 is not a rewrite. It won't improve performance or stability on its own; it's an upgrade that unlocks us to move fast right after. We'll do better with communication next time. - We are rebuilding the CLOB from the ground up. Most important thing we're doing. Without it, we can't be the best DeFi exchange in the world. We know it, we're on it, it's mission critical. - Unified TypeScript SDK for all APIs, which is shipping soon. - Unified API. One WS connection for everything, with a schema that's actually readable. - New Polymarket contract in the works that unlocks things that are simply impossible on the current protocol. - New hires: Head of QA Automation, Head of Dev Tooling, Head of Internal Tooling, Head of Data Engineering. - Smaller, dedicated teams. Fewer focus points per person, clearer ownership. People do what they're good at and are accountable for it. - Working closely with customer support to give them real debugging tools so any user issue gets properly diagnosed, not lost. - Proper communication with marketing and market makers so everyone knows what's coming and when, and MM can submit feature requests with a clear path to get them into engineering and shipped. - Working with 4 security teams daily to ensure we're super secure and that funds are always safe. - Perps incoming. Brand new contracts and a backend built from scratch in Rust. We're proud of this one. - A lot of other fixes are running in parallel right now. Starting next Friday, I will be posting weekly engineering updates. I joined because I genuinely believe in what @Polymarket is trying to do. @shayne_coplan built this so the world has somewhere to go to find out what's actually going to happen, not what the media thinks, not what a pundit says, but what thousands of people are willing to put money on. But right now, our engineering isn't living up to that. We've let people down, and I'm not going to dress that up. I came here to fix it, and that's exactly what we're going to do. The next few months are going to speak for themselves. Stay with us.

The Sonic network, Sonic Labs holdings, and Aave deployment on Sonic have no exposure to today’s Kelp incident. Aave’s contracts are not affected, and user funds remain safe on Sonic. Our team will continue to monitor the situation closely.

@SonicLabs @FantomFanatik

Sonic address growth keeps compounding. 6.53M total unique addresses ▪️ +150,096 in the last 2 weeks (~10.7K/day) ▪️ ~101% growth over the last two quarters (~3.28M+ added)

@SonicLabs @MetaMask The infra is in place

ERC-7715 is now live on Sonic. Sub-second finality meets scoped wallet permissions. Users can now grant agents and dApps fine-grained execution rights - no more pop-up roulette, no more constant approvals. Built for the agent era, powered by @MetaMask.

@SonicLabs @flyingtulip_ @AndreCronjeTech HUGE

Onchain delta-neutral yield just went live via @flyingtulip_ on Sonic. A novel DeFi primitive from @andrecronjetech, currently live in a capped phase with plenty of room to scale stablecoin yield over time.

@nomamesgwei I’m betting on a massive coronary event before round two

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