Solana-based Layer-2 community Sonic SVM has formally launched its native token, $SONIC, on Tuesday.

The token era occasion occurred on January 7, 2025, at 12:00 PM UTC, enabling $SONIC to begin buying and selling on numerous cryptocurrency exchanges.

This launch is especially noteworthy for gamers of SonicX, a TikTok-based tap-to-earn sport developed by Sonic SVM, who’re set to obtain airdropped tokens as rewards for his or her in-app progress.

What’s Sonic SVM?

Sonic SVM is the primary Solana Digital Machine (SVM) community extension constructed on Solana, specializing in gaming and functions.

It makes use of the Sonic HyperGrid framework to orchestrate optimistic Solana rollups, enhancing scalability and efficiency for decentralised gaming ecosystems.

By integrating with platforms like TikTok by means of functions resembling SonicX, Sonic SVM goals to seamlessly onboard web2 customers into the Solana and web3 ecosystem, offering a bridge between conventional social media platforms and blockchain-based gaming.

$SONIC Token Launch and Airdrop Particulars

The $SONIC token serves because the spine of Sonic SVM’s ecosystem, facilitating staking, funds, and governance inside the platform.

The full provide of $SONIC is capped at 2.4 billion tokens, with 57% allotted to the neighborhood. As a part of the launch, 7% of the entire provide has been designated for an preliminary airdrop to early supporters, together with SonicX gamers, node operators, and particular NFT holders. Eligible contributors have two choices for claiming their tokens:

1. 1. 1. Partial Declare with Vesting: Declare 60% of the allocation instantly, with the remaining 40% vested over six months, incomes a 140% bonus on the vested quantity.
      2. Full Declare: Declare 100% of the allocation upfront, with none extra bonuses.

The airdrop declare course of has been out there since January 3 and with the token era occasion accomplished, $SONIC tokens are actually tradable on a number of exchanges resembling KuCoin, BitGet, BingX and extra.

The token has skilled vital volatility since its launch, with a 55% improve within the final 24 hours and a buying and selling quantity surge to $2.4 billion. On the time of writing, the $SONIC token is buying and selling at roughly $0.85 USD in accordance with knowledge from CoinGecko.