Sonic Announcements (prev. Fantom)

Meme Season Round 2 🏆 Announcing: Meme Season Round 2! 📅 Jul 22 – Sep 5 💵 750k FTM as $sFTMx The 2nd round of Meme Season features exciting changes that we think you'll love. Brand-new scoring formula, rewards distribution, and eligibility criteria 🚀 Also, providing liquidity with memecoins now counts you as a holder. Get ready to be rewarded for providing liquidity! 👀 🔍 Learn more about the 2nd round of Meme Season.

Equalizer Exchange eLocks 🔒 Introducing eLocks on Equalizer Exchange. Lock your Equalizer liquidity to continue earning trading fees, qualify for whitelisting your token, and receive $EQUAL emissions from the launch of your token 💸 You retain the ability to transfer your locked liquidity in the form of a timed NFT. Several other integrations for eLocks are currently in development, so stay tuned for more updates. 🔍 Learn more about eLocks.

Reflexivity Research Report "With its Meme Season and #Sonic chain, Fantom is set to capitalize on the memecoin craze and handle the surge in users." Reflexivity Research's latest report on #Fantom covers our Meme Season competition and the winners of its 1st round, who won ~$500,000 of $sFTMx! In addition, the report covered: 🚀 Memecoin culture 🎯 Fantom's strategic position 🔍 Read the full report.

Meme Season Round 1 Winners We're excited to announce the winners of the 1st round of Meme Season on Opera, leading up to the launch of #Sonic! 🚀   🥇 1st place Coin: $HOOPS | HOOPS_is_Sonic Prize: 600k sFTMx 🥈 2nd place Coin: $THC | TinHat_Cat Prize: 300k sFTMx   🥉 3rd place Coin: $sGOAT | theFantomgoat Prize: 100k sFTMx   Congratulations to the winners. We'll distribute funds soon to memecoin holders and teams, including 6 fortunate holders who won over $10,000 each! 🤯   🏆 Remember, 80% of the prize is given to the memecoin holders and 20% goes to the team.   Also, stay tuned for Meme Season's 2nd round, featuring exciting changes 👀 🔍 Learn more about Meme Season and the winners.

Sonic Governance News Our 4th proposal for the upcoming #Sonic chain has PASSED! This enables us to accelerate the transition of our validators and stakeholders to the new Sonic network by: 🚀 Enhanced GasM Boosting Gas Monetization revenue to as much as 90% with a new burn model that increases burn rate for transactions. ⌛️ Improved Staking Reducing max staking period to 14 days, unlocking 100s of millions in liquidity through liquid staking derivatives. 🔄 Validator Migration Migrating Opera block rewards to Sonic, ensuring limited token supply. 🔍 Learn more about the proposal.

Estfor Kingdom Update A thrilling new chapter begins for Estfor Kingdom with the extensive Montanite Sommar update! Brace yourselves for exciting updates across skills, combat, items, and quests 🎮 🌲 Skills Experience multi-output actions in Mining, Fishing, and Woodcutting. Thieving now has new environments, bounties, and a "Chests" interface. ⚔️ Combat Prepare to venture onto the Mountain, filled with powerful Montanites and oozing Primdiat power, and utilize new Rings and Fire & Poison arrows. 💍 Items Discover brimstone, coins, fragments, rings, and chests. 📜 Quests Enjoy 27 new quests in various questlines like Way of the Axe and Fire and Ice. 🔍 Learn more about the Estfor Kingdom update.

Estfor Kingdom Update A thrilling new chapter begins for Estfor Kingdom with the extensive Montanite Sommar update! Brace yourselves for exciting updates across skills, combat, items, and quests 🎮 🌲 Skills Experience multi-output actions in Mining, Fishing, and Woodcutting. Thieving now has new environments, bounties, and a "Chests" interface. ⚔️ Combat Prepare to venture onto the Mountain, filled with powerful Montanites and oozing Primdiat power, and utilize new Rings and Fire & Poison arrows. 💍 Items Discover brimstone, coins, fragments, rings, and chests. 📜 Quests Enjoy 27 new quests in various questlines like Way of the Axe and Fire and Ice. 🔍 Learn more about the Estfor Kingdom update.

Fantom Insights Newsletter Two things can sum up our previous month: memecoins and #Sonic governance proposals. The inaugural round of Meme Season was thrilling with many twists, and we passed key governance proposals for the upcoming Sonic chain to ensure its long-term success. 🪂 Airdrop for Opera & Sonic users 💸 200,000,000 $FTM Innovator Fund 🚀 Meme Season round 1 finished ➕ And more 🔍 Check out the latest Fantom Insights newsletter.

Sonic Governance News Our 3rd proposal for the upcoming #Sonic chain has PASSED! Funding for ecosystem grants, marketing, partnerships, and innovative programs like Sonic Spark and Sonic University are now on the horizon! 🚀 💸 Sonic Spark — Spark innovation with early founders and bring the next wave of builders to Sonic by providing native builder grants 📚 Sonic University — Provide students at select colleges and universities with resources, knowledge, access, and guidance to build the next generation of dApps on Sonic 🔍 Learn more about the proposal.

Gas Monetization Bonus We're excited to announce the latest #Fantom Gas Monetization quarterly bonus 💸 🏆 We're distributing 55,000+ $FTM to the top 12 dApps on Opera that have generated the most gas: 1. PaintSwap 2. SpookySwap 3. XEX Labs 4. Beethoven X 5. Equalizer Exchange 6. Mummy Finance 7. WigoSwap 8. Sacra: Falling of Myrd 9. ODOS 10. Solidly Labs 11. XEN 12. Velocimeter Congratulations to these innovative projects for driving the most user engagement 🚀 🔍 Learn more about Gas Monetization.