Sonic Labs：新链的高性能能否实现？

从曾经的明星公链Fantom到如今的Sonic Labs，2024年是这条Layer1链发生巨变的一年：基金会更名、主网升级、代币互换。

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.

更名为Sonic Labs后，曾经风靡一时的公链项目Fantom正式上线了新主网Sonic。与之前的Opera链相比，Sonic在共识层和存储层都发生了巨大的变化，并引入了实时剪枝、节点同步加速、数据库减重等技术手段，以实现更高的性能和更低的节点负担。在跨链方面，Sonic Gateway 采用验证人在 Sonic 和以太坊上运行客户端的方式，并引入去中心化、防篡改的“Fail-Safe”保护，保证跨链资产的安全。

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.

在通证经济方面，Sonic 设置了与 FTM 相同的初始供应量（总量），以确保老币持有者能够以 1:1 的比例获得 S。主网上线六个月后开始，每年发行1.5%（约4762.5万个S），用于网络运营、营销、DeFi推广等，持续六年。但是，如果这部分代币在某一年没有用完，它们将被 100% 销毁，以确保只有额外的部分真正投入建设，而不是存储在基金会中。

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

为了对冲这部分增加带来的通胀压力，索尼克设计了三种销毁机制：

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.

费用变现销毁：如果DApp不参与FeeM，用户将直接销毁该应用产生的交易中50%的gas费用；这相当于对“不加入合作共享”的应用征收更高的“通货紧缩税”，鼓励DApp积极参与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.

空投销毁：行权期为270天，即可全额获得75%空投份额；如果用户选择提前解锁，则将损失一部分空投份额，这些“扣除”的份额将被直接销毁，从而减少S在市场上的流通量。

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.

持续资金消耗：每年发行 1.5% 用于网络开发。如果当年没有用完，剩余的代币将被100%销毁。这样可以防止基金会囤币，限制某些成员长期排挤代币。

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.

总体而言，索尼克试图一方面通过“可控发行”来保障生态发展资金，另一方面通过多点“销毁”来抑制通胀。最值得关注的是FeeM机制下的“燃烧”，因为它与DApp的参与程度和交易量直接挂钩，这意味着不参与FeeM的应用越多，链上的通货紧缩就越大；相反，FeeM应用越多，“通货紧缩税”越少，但开发者份额会增加，形成利润分享和通货紧缩之间的动态平衡。

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，虽然“高TPS”在公链竞争中并不新鲜，但它仍然是吸引用户和项目方的核心指标之一。快速流畅的交互体验通常可以降低用户接触区块链的门槛，也为复杂合约、高频交易、元界游戏等应用场景提供了可能。此外，Fantom曾在Multichain事件中因跨链陷入困境。因此，Sonic的跨链策略也备受关注。官方技术文档将跨链Sonic Gateway列为关键技术，并具体介绍了安全机制。