PANews, October 23rd news: Andre Cronje, Chief Technology Officer of Sonic Labs, posted on the X platform stating that the cost of running a Layer 2 or application chain is approximately $13.2 million, which includes upfront and annual expenses such as oracles, stablecoins, RPC services, governance, etc. Cronje also listed the cost centers of the Sonic project over the past year, totaling $35.6 million, mainly including expenses for R&D, ecosystem development, legal, and compliance. He pointed out that these costs do not include exchange listing fees, stating that there have been no relevant operations this year.