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Fantom Unveils Sonic Blockchain, Targets DeFi Efficiency and Scalability

04/30/2025

Fantom Unveils Sonic Blockchain, Targets DeFi Efficiency and Scalability

Fantom has launched Sonic, a new Layer-1 network designed to optimize decentralized finance (DeFi) through enhanced efficiency, scalability, and profitability. Sonics introduces a number of prime innovations. These range from the SonicVM virtual machine to a high-capacity transactional processing system with volumes exceeding 10,000 TPS to the Sonic Gateway—a native...

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