Sonic Labs plans to enhance the value of its S token through vertical integration of core applications, hinting at a potential future acquisition.

Sonic, the Layer 1 public chain created by the original Fantom team, announced plans to upgrade the value accumulation mechanism of its native token S by building and acquiring core protocol applications and infrastructure, hinting at potential future mergers and acquisitions. In its latest statement, Sonic Labs stated that the team will focus on developing key infrastructure where token utility, liquidity, and use cases converge, reducing the outflow of value from the ecosystem application layer through internalizing and commercializing core economic activities. Sonic will maintain its openness to developers and its permissionless nature. The team stated that the past model relying on "user growth—increased transactions—increased gas consumption—token value return" is no longer sustainable. With the development of Rollups, modular architectures, and high-performance public chains, the increased supply of block space has led to continuous compression of transaction fees, making gas revenue alone insufficient to support the long-term value of L1. Sonic is a high-performance public chain compatible with EVM, aiming to achieve near-instant confirmation and extremely high throughput. It is currently attempting to reshape the value capture path of Layer 1 through deeper ecosystem integration.