Recently, a small game has become popular on Tiktok, but who would have thought that its developer is Sonic, a public gaming chain based on Solana.
Compared to many previous blockchain games that flocked to TON to develop mini-programs, they teamed up with Solana and found the methodology on Tiktok. At the same time, they are also promoting SVM so that Solana can have more L2.
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This summer, the TON mini-program craze has set off the entire blockchain game market, and people seem to accept the model of earning points in the game and then exchanging them for tokens in their wallets.
In view of this background, Sonic decided to test the waters on Tiktok and launched the point-to-earn game SonicX. Once it was launched, it immediately became a hit, attracting more than one million Tiktok players to participate, and there are many Solana elements in the game.
Currently, the team is also developing its own development tools to enable more game manufacturers to quickly enter Solana to deploy applications, but in this process, they found that compared to launching an application on the chain, these manufacturers are more willing to build their own public chain or platform.
For example, Sony developed the Sony Chain, Coinbase and Kraken developed the Base Chain and Ink Chain, so Solana also needs L2 to meet these needs.
Under this factor, Sonic decided that in addition to Tiktok games + the public chain itself, they would also strive to achieve the combination of EVM and SVM, that is, developers can submit Ethereum programming content and then run it on Sonic and Solana.
最终达到一键发链的目的，这就是今天的 SVM。
The benefits of this path are also obvious:
1. Facilitate more Ethereum developers to come to Solana
2. It lowers many development barriers and helps reuse technical codes
3. Help influential companies to deploy their own SOL superchain
Among them, the most critical one is the third one.
Therefore, what Sonic is doing now is not just the game chain, but also the work of Ethereum OP Stack, that is, lowering the threshold for developers to enter Solana, while helping companies to release their own Solana application chains.
The official took the route of game chain in the early stage, also considering the game, which is more likely to be a target for large-scale expansion. After all, Solana also gave birth to the magical disk STEPN that year, and everyone was running it.
In terms of market capitalization estimates, Solana’s current market capitalization is 120 billion, and Jupiter’s market capitalization is 11 billion. If Sonic eventually becomes the public chain with the best data based on Solana, and assumes a role similar to OP Stack’s one-click chain launch, its market capitalization is expected to be around 3-5 billion.
Sonic’s current investors include Republic, OKX, Bitkraft and Galaxy.
Solana, Sui and its founders, as well as the co-founders of OP and YGG, all follow Sonic’s official Twitter account, and people related to Solana also interact with it frequently.
At the beginning of this year, various companies were using OP to launch chains with one click, and TON brought a craze for mini-games in the summer. With the recent cooling of MEME, Solana's hot money is likely to turn to other targets on its public chain, so Sonic VM has great opportunities and is worth paying attention to.
