Sonic Labs: The first blockchain to share transaction fees with developers? $S

At first, I thought #Sonic was just a regular L1 blockchain, but after researching thoroughly, I was truly surprised.

Unlike other platforms that 'squeeze' developers, Sonic allows them to keep up to 90% of the transaction fees generated by their applications.

Highlight: Fee Monetization (FeeM) – Sharing transaction fees like YouTube

This idea is inspired by the Web2 model, similar to how YouTube shares advertising revenue with content creators.

• Instead of keeping all the fees or burning tokens to beautify the numbers, Sonic genuinely shares with the builders of the ecosystem.

• This project truly supports developers, just like Andre Cronje has always supported builders.

Operational mechanism: No participation – No fee sharing

Not every application can automatically participate in FeeM. Projects must:

• Register and be approved to share fees.

• If they do not participate in the program, 50% of the fees will be burned, 45% for validators, and 5% into the ecosystem fund.

• If participating in FeeM, 90% of the fees will belong to the developers and 10% for validators, with no fees being burned.

What about Sonic's scalability?

Sonic has extremely ambitious goals:

• To process over 900 million transactions per day.

• Even if only achieving 10 million transactions/day, the system could still generate 36.5 million USD/year, with 16.4 million USD belonging to developers.

This incentive mechanism is more sustainable compared to many other L1s that rely on issuing inflationary tokens to keep devs.

Anti-gas fee fraud: Accurate calculations down to every opcode

Sonic tracks gas consumption right at the virtual machine (VM) level:

• Is this the future of blockchain?