Sonic Labs：新鏈的高效能能否實現？

從曾經的明星公鏈Fantom到如今的Sonic Labs，2024年是這條Layer1鏈發生巨變的一年：基金會更名、主網升級、代幣互換。

After changing its name to Sonic Labs, the once-popular public chain project Fantom has officially launched its new mainnet, Sonic. Compared with the previous Opera chain, Sonic has undergone drastic changes in both the consensus layer and the storage layer, and has introduced technical means such as live pruning, node synchronization acceleration, and database weight loss to achieve higher performance and lower node burden. In terms of cross-chain, Sonic Gateway adopts the method of validators running clients on both Sonic and Ethereum, and introduces decentralized and tamper-proof "Fail-Safe" protection to ensure the security of cross-chain assets.

改名為Sonic Labs後，曾經風靡一時的公鏈計畫Fantom正式上線了新主網Sonic。與先前的Opera鏈相比，Sonic在共識層和儲存層都發生了巨大的變化，並引入了即時剪枝、節點同步加速、資料庫減重等技術手段，以實現更高的效能和更低的節點負擔。在跨鏈方面，Sonic Gateway 採用驗證人在 Sonic 和以太坊上運行客戶端的方式，並引入去中心化、防篡改的「Fail-Safe」保護，確保跨鏈資產的安全。

In terms of token economics, Sonic sets the same initial supply (total amount) as FTM to ensure that old coin holders can get S at a 1:1 ratio. Starting six months after the mainnet goes online, 1.5% (about 47.625 million S) will be issued every year for network operations, marketing, DeFi promotion, etc., for six years. However, if this part of the tokens is not used up in a certain year, they will be 100% destroyed to ensure that only the additional part is actually invested in construction, rather than being stored in the foundation.

在通證經濟方面，Sonic 設定了與 FTM 相同的初始供應量（總量），以確保老幣持有者能夠以 1:1 的比例獲得 S。主網上線六個月後開始，每年發行1.5%（約4762.5萬個S），用於網路營運、行銷、DeFi推廣等，為期六年。但是，如果這部分代幣在某一年沒有用完，它們將被 100% 銷毀，以確保只有額外的部分真正投入建設，而不是儲存在基金會中。

In order to hedge the inflationary pressure caused by this part of the increase, Sonic designed three destruction mechanisms:

為了對沖這部分增加帶來的通膨壓力，索尼克設計了三種銷毀機制：

Fee Monetization Burn: If a DApp does not participate in FeeM, users will directly destroy 50% of the gas fees in transactions generated by the application; this is equivalent to imposing a higher "deflation tax" on applications that "do not join the cooperative sharing", encouraging DApp to actively participate in FeeM.

費用變現銷毀：如果DApp不參與FeeM，用戶將直接銷毀該應用程式產生的交易中50%的gas費用；這相當於對“不加入合作共享”的應用程式徵收更高的“通貨緊縮稅”，並鼓勵DApp積極參與FeeM。

Airdrop Burn : It takes 270 days for the vesting period to fully obtain the 75% airdrop shares; if the user chooses to unlock in advance, a portion of the airdrop shares will be lost, and these "deducted" shares will be directly destroyed, thereby reducing the circulation of S in the market.

空投銷毀：行權期間為270天，即可全額取得75%空投份額；如果用戶選擇提前解鎖，則將損失一部分空投份額，這些「扣除」的份額將直接銷毀，從而減少S在市場上的流通量。

Ongoing Funding Burn: 1.5% annual issuance for network development. If the tokens are not used up in the current year, the remaining tokens will be burned 100%. This can prevent the foundation from hoarding coins and limit the long-term crowding out of tokens by certain members.

持續資金消耗：每年發行 1.5% 用於網路開發。如果當年沒有用完，剩餘的代幣將被100%銷毀。這樣可以防止基金會囤幣，限制某些成員長期排擠代幣。

Overall, Sonic attempts to ensure ecological development funds through "controllable issuance" on the one hand, and "destruction" at multiple points on the other hand to curb inflation. The most noteworthy is the "burning" under the FeeM mechanism, because it is directly linked to the participation level and transaction volume of DApps, which means that the more applications do not participate in FeeM, the greater the deflation on the chain; on the contrary, the more FeeM applications there are, the less "deflation tax" there is, but the developer share will increase, forming a dynamic balance between profit sharing and deflation.

整體而言，索尼克試圖一方面透過「可控發行」來保障生態發展資金，另一方面透過多點「銷毀」來抑制通膨。最值得關注的是FeeM機制下的“燃燒”，因為它與DApp的參與程度和交易量直接掛鉤，這意味著不參與FeeM的應用越多，鏈上的通貨緊縮就越大；相反，FeeM應用程式越多，「通貨緊縮稅」越少，但開發者份額會增加，形成利潤分享和通貨緊縮之間的動態平衡。

It is worth noting that although "high TPS" is not new in the competition of public chains, it is still one of the core indicators to attract users and project parties. Fast and smooth interactive experience can usually lower the threshold of users to blockchain, and also provide possibilities for application scenarios such as complex contracts, high-frequency transactions, and metaverse games. In addition, Fantom once fell into trouble due to cross-chain in the Multichain incident. Therefore, Sonic's cross-chain strategy has also attracted much attention. The official technical documents list the cross-chain Sonic Gateway as a key technology and specifically introduce the security mechanism.

值得注意的是，雖然「高TPS」在公鏈競爭中並不新鮮，但它仍然是吸引用戶和專案方的核心指標之一。快速流暢的互動體驗通常可以降低用戶接觸區塊鏈的門檻，也為複雜合約、高頻交易、元界遊戲等應用場景提供了可能。此外，Fantom曾在Multichain事件中因跨鏈陷入困境。因此，Sonic的跨鏈策略也備受關注。官方技術文件將跨鏈Sonic Gateway列為關鍵技術，並具體介紹了安全機制。