According to Odaily Planet Daily, Sonic Labs CTO Andre Cronje wrote in X that L2 as an application chain is illogical for developers. There is almost no infrastructure support when deploying, such as stablecoins, oracles, and institutional custody.

There is no foundation or lab to help, the centralized architecture is vulnerable to attacks, the liquidity is dispersed and forced to go through cross-chain bridges, and there is a lack of user and developer communities. Developers spend their time dealing with the above issues instead of applications and users.

Lisk also severely underestimated the cost of infrastructure and compliance, costing $14 million in 2024 alone, a large portion of which is recurring costs.