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CIO and Director at @SonicLabs. $S. Retweets and likes are not endorsements just information.
Joined July 2016
As part of Sonic’s restructuring, I’ll be transitioning from my role as CIO and continuing to support @MitchellDemeter and the @SonicLabs team as a Director of Sonic Labs, focusing on internal initiatives. Very excited about Sonic’s future under Mitchell’s leadership!
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Check out my score on the @FlyingTulip_ accredited investor quiz. I am now ready to register for the whitelist. Are you? Use this link to take the quiz and secure your spot. https://t.co/AQV3yvJEAp
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FlyingTulip - Accredited Investor Quiz
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A lot more to come. Thank you for your patience.
Approaching one month as CEO of Sonic Labs. I’ve been meeting with teams, builders, community members, and partners across the ecosystem as part of a comprehensive review of our strategy, structure, and growth priorities. Communication has slowed intentionally as we align on
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⚠️ Important Notice All nodes on Sonic mainnet and testnet must upgrade to 2.1.2 immediately to avoid disconnection. This release introduces native fee subsidies and critical security improvements, replacing the earlier v2.1 ahead of Sonic’s full mainnet upgrade to Pectra
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Not bad in just a few months. Congrats!
XPress has officially surpassed $1,000,000,000+ in cumulative trading volume. A billion in on-chain trades powered by our fully on-chain CLOB — no AMM, no compromises. Start trading smarter on @SonicLabs ⚡ 👉 https://t.co/QC8Ht0ECzV
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Andre's been involved with Sonic (then Fantom) since June 2018. At the time I was at a fund that fundraised for the project. After the previous team had messed up and plagiarised their technical paper, we were about to close it until Andre convinced us that he was already
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Sonic's Round 1 rewards will be claimable on Kaito on the 10th of October! 2,500,000 $S to be distributed - check out all the details in the Notion linked in their tweet below 👇
Sonic Kaito Round 1 snapshot is complete, and Round 2 is now live. Here’s everything you need to know. 💰 Round 1 Information 🗣️ Round 2 New Format 🔗 https://t.co/hZo40PKnVi
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All Hana user traffic across blockchain networks runs through Sonic. This is because we use @gosodax under the hood. When others realize how good it is we losing our first mover advantage 😆
Incredible week in Singapore for Sonic Summit and Token2049. Proud to be working alongside an incredible team and a community of builders pushing Sonic forward. The future of Sonic is just getting started. $S
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Incredible week in Singapore for Sonic Summit and Token2049. Proud to be working alongside an incredible team and a community of builders pushing Sonic forward. The future of Sonic is just getting started. $S
Thank you, Singapore 🇸🇬 The energy at Sonic Summit was next level! Builders, partners, and innovators from around the world came together to push the ecosystem forward. Full recordings from keynotes, panels, and firesides coming soon.
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Favorite moment of Summit: Seeing one of our team members with zero coding skills build a horse race derby on Spawn... And then actually race the horses live - all within 5 minutes end to end.
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From liquidity mining to quantified yield. The Sonic Macro BTF brings fully on-chain strategy execution to life: • Dynamic re-weighting • Autonomous capital allocation • Proven outperformance Infrastructure for the next era of capital. 👇 https://t.co/LSTsxuORlX
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USDC on Sonic is now supported by @KASTcard. 💵 Global USD accounts 🌎 Available in 160+ countries Seamless spending that bridges DeFi speed with global payments.
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We just dropped an article on @flyingtulip_’s FT token raise—mechanics, product suite, and the opportunity it provides. Check it out below:
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Excited to welcome @CMCC_Global as they launch Resonance, a $25M fund dedicated to the Sonic ecosystem. CMCC is a global brand comprised of industry leaders and one of Asia’s most established blockchain VCs. Their track record speaks for itself, and these are the types of
CMCC Global is set to launch Resonance, a $25M Sonic ecosystem fund. @CMCC_Global is one of Asia’s most established VC companies focused solely on blockchain investments. 🔗 https://t.co/z1iVsfookc
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1/ Trillions of capital is coming onchain, and Sonic is ready: • U.S. institutional arm • Infra for global payment rails • New CEO focused on bridging capital markets What’s missing? Scalable $S yield and real-time financial infrastructure. Beets is building both. 🧵
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Builders are flocking to Sonic In the last 24 hours alone, we saw a massive surge with 2,177 new contracts deployed - the biggest spike since June! At first glance, I thought this might be tied to @flyingtulip_ but since they’re still undergoing audits, that’s unlikely.
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