Infrastructure

Startups

Sonic is the world’s fastest EVM chain, offering a secure gateway to Ethereum and complete one-block finality.

Sonic is new layer-1 chain with a native layer-2 bridge connected to Ethereum. Designed by Professor Bernhard Scholz, one of the world’s foremost experts on virtual machine development, and his team, and led by DeFi pioneer Andre Cronje, the Sonic chain is a new layer-1 chain with a native layer-2 bridge connected to Ethereum.
 
 The Sonic chain will be a layer-1 platform that connects to Ethereum via a bespoke layer-2 bridge, allowing Sonic to tap into vast amounts of liquidity, users, and protocols. This allows the network to combine the low cost, scalability, and speed of a layer 1 with the security of a layer-2 bridge for access to native ETH and other assets on Ethereum. As a result, the Sonic chain isn’t just an L1 or L2 — it’s the first chain of its kind to provide the best of both.

Fantom

UOB Asset Management

OnBlock Ventures

Sam Kazemian

Stani Kulechov

Michael Egorov

Soul Capital

Egor Lysenko

Quan Nguyen

Michael Kong

Michael Chen

Simone Pomposi

Sonic Labs

Intu

Gateway FM

LayerZero

Burnt

Tank Wars Zone

Sonic

AAVE

Signum Capital

Fernando Martinelli

Robert Leshner

Tarun Chitra

Hashed

Investors

CypherHunter Plus

on May 23, 2024, Sonic Labs raised $10 million in a Strategic funding round led by Hashed

Investors

CypherHunter Plus