Crypto conspiracy theory time 🤠
Historically, Fantom's technical prowess is steps ahead of other L1 / L2 infra (first EVM chain in production with <$0.01 fees at sub-second finality, first DAG w/ widespread adoption)
Solana FDN understood that Fantom is a strong competitor👇
@NostalgiaFolder
Top 10 Most Downloaded on her screen:
1) Return of the King
2) The Cat in the Hat (???)
3) The Matrix Revolutions
4) Paycheck
5) Cheaper By the Dozen
6) Peter Pan
7) Cold Mountain
8) Master and Commander
9) The Last Samurai
10) Mona Lisa Smile
What is the best blockchain experience you've ever had?
I'd bet any amount that using $FTM Sonic will beat them all
While we wait for mainnet, there are ways for you to feel the speed of Sonic right now TODAY
Here are a few ways (prepare to be blown away) ↓
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Sonic's technology alone is incredible.
In Andre's words, "Sonic itself is a technical marvel"
But imagine Sonic + ecosystem activity airdrop + native point program + huge brand partnerships + native stablecoins
It's all coming.
Lettuce cook 🥬🧑🍳
Welcome to the new frens and faces coming into
#Fantom
for
#SonicSeason
👋
Here are some projects to check out in our ecosystem, including memecoins, DeFi protocols, and unreleased dapps you need be watching 👀
🧵(1/5)
1/11 Come with me below the surface 🧊
As promised, a short thread on exactly why Fantom's:
→ true finality
→ no segmentation
→ shared security
→ shared liquidity
→ 99.9% uptime
features are more interesting points than
#Fantom
's low gas cost and rapid transactions 🧵 ↓
Want to be early to new DeFi dapps on
#Fantom
Sonic?
Quick recap of a few new projects coming toward the launch of Sonic
(Later this week I'll cover some of the incredible DeFi applications already live, follow for more 🔔)
1/7 🧵👇
Whether you got on or off the $FTM train, you're welcomed back with open arms, no grudges, no hard feelings.
Now strap in, the big news isn't even out yet.
TL;DR
- Sonic launch rebrands Fantom
- 2,000 - 10,000 TPS
- sub-second finality
- official native bridge
- canonical stablecoin
- airdrop and rewards program
The builders continue to build.
The marketers continue to market.
The community continue to make it.
$FTM Familio 💙
Michael Kong Unveils Sonic’s Launch and Beyond
TL;DR
Sonic will be used to create a new best-in-class shared (decentralized) sequencer for L1 and L2 chains, capable of 180M daily transactions at sub-second finality, and serve as the foundation to relaunch Fantom as an entirely
Just on a 2 hour
#Fantom
townhall
A few
@AndreCronjeTech
live quotes:
"Sonic itself I do think is a technical marvel"
"I do think it is the best tech out there in blockchain"
"The nature of innovation is you can't stop"
Developers building here are in for a real treat 🍭
Grant applications open, a growing ecosystem vault,
#DeFi
hackathon, venture support.
#Fantom
has more routes for builder funding than ever!🚀
In this🧵, see how smart projects are taking advantage of opportunities provided by the
@FantomFDN
, plus today's HUGE new gov proposal💥
On stage recently, Michael Kong
@FantomFDN
CEO presented on the
#FantomVirtualMachine
+ unique storage features.
Mainnet data results are included! 📊
In this short 🧵:
#Fantom
, an L1 focused on optimization & scalability, without sacrificing decentralization or security
👇1/6
Memecoins on
#Fantom
level up remarkably fast.
Yes, like any healthy ecosystem, there are those that exist just as speculative pump (and dump) vehicles.
But many are building cool, useful stuff in the eco:
@MuttskiFTM
= TG bot for trading $FTM based tokens
@TailsFTM
= P2E
🧠Who is the new Chief Research Officer hired by the
@FantomFDN
that is leading a giga brain team of researchers & developers, growing larger and larger by the day? And what progress was recently made?
🧵👇
$BTC is dial-up
$ETH is DSL
$SOL is fiberoptics
$FTM is a microchip planted directly in your brain, instant 24/7 connectivity, there is no concept of speed needed.
Have you heard about
#Fantom
's plan for gas subsidies?
It means: no more faucets, no more bridges, just wallets!
Let me show you examples why this development has incredible implications for dApp developers. Plus, huge potential to increase $FTM adoption 🚀
A short thread 🧵👇
Developing on
#Fantom
will get even more rewarding this year.
How is
@FantomFDN
making the 'user onboarding' bottleneck easier on devs?
Focusing on these upgrades:
1️ Account Abstraction (AA)
2️⃣ Smart Wallets
3️⃣ Gas Subsidies
A short 🧵 explaining these simply 👇
1/5
#Fantom
is testing a new revenue stream (think affiliate rewards) for blockchain
#dApp
developers .
So WTF is
@FantomFDN
's GasM??
Exciting? Definitely
Arousing? Certainly
It's a whole new kinda 'gasm 🥴
GasM stands for Gas Monetization.
1/5 🧵👇
MAJOR UPDATE:
@FantomFDN
pivots to food industry, bringing new use case for $FTM.
FVM is now
#Fantom
Vending Machine. Still releasing this year.
The PoS (Proof of Snack) chain will shift focus to solving:
• Hunger Monetization
• Snack Subsidies
• Nutrition Abstraction
Noticing an interesting discrepancy in memecoin land
The top memecoin on most chains sits around 20-50% of that chain's TVL
Fantom current TVL = $287M
50% is $144M
20% is $58M
$sGOAT and $SPEEDY sit at $16M and $12M fully diluted, respectively 👀
DYOR 📖 NFA 🧑⚖️ GLHF 👏
Gonna mess around and put together a fully onchain, DeFi + culture focused campaign for
@FantomFDN
👀
Which projects should be included? My list is already 20 dApps long, but maybe I'm forgetting some 🤔
Sonic the restaurant's slogans pair oddly well for us💬
Service With the Speed of Sound
Faster and Better than Ever
No Place Hops Like Sonic
Summer's Funner
All Summer Long
Sonic's Got It, Others Don't
This Is How We Sonic
#FantomSonic
opening 24/7, spring 2024
$FTM
Google quietly started indexing blockchain data into their search engine.
Coverage includes Bitcoin and five EVM networks – Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Polygon and
#Fantom
!
Actually pretty cool to see! ⌨️ ✨️
Fantom's dev team is taking an evidence-based approach to blockchain bottlenecks 🔬
Layer 2 solutions & sharding introduce complexity and weaken security of the network.
In these summary clips, Herbert explains how Fantom is focused on vastly improving scalability 🚀
🔊‼️
1/2
2024 prediction: a breakout dapp will earn over 1M $FTM from the gas monetization program (15% of their gas fees)
Total earnings of current top 3 teams in Fantom's GasM program
1) 55k FTM, 6.4M txn
2) 27k FTM, 3.6M txn
3) 18k FTM, 2.4M txn
Better market, activity can surprise
Day 1
@Quantum_Miami
was a success!
Met tons of $FTM fans & spread the good word to many more 🙂
🎙 Today's panel spoke on improving
#Fantom
's unique consensus with a focus on optimizing performance, without compromise on security.
Come say hey all week 👋
Blockchain DEX data out of
@artemis__xyz
that's incredibly interesting 👀
➔ Fantom has the best retention rate across DEXs for all top chains; Solana is clear 2nd
➔ Average one month retention is 17.7%
Once addresses interact with $FTM, they remain engaged onchain 😉🔥
You can't spell
#Fantom
without an N,F,T
NFT
NFaT
NFanT
NFanTo
NFanTom
FaNTom
fantom
Fantom
FNtom
FNTo
NFT
Drop + tag your fav $FTM
#NFT
👇
if you got 'em, I wanna see 'em
Heard so many awesome talks during
#Consensus2022
but
@MichaelfKong
speaking on Fantom's focus topped them all!🧠
Mainstream adoption is the end game & this comes from nailing USER EXPERIENCE.
#Fantom
is making this a reality with superior performance + fast, cheap & secure txns
Know a dev or degen looking for a new chain to call home?
Send them this 2022
#Fantom
catch-up thread 🧵
Below are 22 notable tweets, threads, and news events that captured the exciting happenings this year & up ahead for
@FantomFDN
!
Happy New Year to all the $FTM frens 🎉🎉
On-chain gaming will lead to a wave of activity & interest in crypto (this year IMO) 🌊
One example: browser-based idle adventure game
@EstforKingdom
releasing on
#Fantom
⚔️
Short 🧵 on how you can play, what (obsessed) players are saying, and the in-game $BRUSH economy
👇 1/8
Tomorrow's new builders testnet in a nutshell means:
• Devs can build & launch apps
• Full technical docs
• Testnet RPC endpoints
• 100% compatible w/ EVM
• 100% compatible w/ current Opera
• The Graph Node (run by Foundation)
• Sonic Safe
Submit your app to Sonic Labs,
BLOCKCHAIN SPEED CHALLENGE⚡️
A
#FantomSonic
swap not only has shorter finality w/ higher throughput than any blockchain available, its final before you can say 📢 "PREPARE TO GO SUPER SONIC" 🗨️
Try it yourself:
Non-believers, watch vid below w/sound😂
If $FTM / $S trades at ATH ($3.47) it will be the third largest airdrop in $ value in the history of crypto 🤯
190,500,000 x $3.47 = $661 MILLION $
Opera users are truly gonna make it
Don't worry babe, everything is gonna work out with this crypto thing. I promise!
*Opens search bar*
Plus there's gonna be more airdrops this year.
We are all gonna make it babe.
$FTM
Really proud to be in the trenches with this team at the
@FantomFDN
💙
The team continues to grow! ⬆️
And the mainnet launch rolls ever-closer! ⛓️
If you're into $FTM, be sure to follow these guys that have made the
#FantomSonic
testnet launch so special, day-in and day-out😊
So there a degen express memecoin platform coming to
#Fantom
(I'm told it'll be here in less than 2 weeks)
Think pump dot fun mixed with custom vAMM for sonic smooth swaps and liquidity provision.
Are we ready for this?
Are we bullish enough?
$FTM
The perfect place to build
#GameFi
is on
#Fantom
.
Why? Extremely high throughput, near zero fees, strong chain security.
Here are some games I am keeping my eye on and suggest you do the same, many are still in their stealth build phase 👀
$FTM
From a list of 112 blockchains, only 6 chains show up repeatedly (80%+) in the Top 10 by DEX volume since March 2021 when crypto first saw new ATHs.
#Fantom
is one of them.
The others are Ethereum, Polygon, BSC, Avalanche and Arbitrum.
This next sentence applies to the above
@sweatystartup
Few.
My dad is a pipe fitter going on 40 years. He built/maintained/constructed more in a single week than most people behind a keyboard will do in their entire lives. The things we take for granted now, how society just “functions” well, will be painfully obvious in 20-30 years
Have you heard of the Lindy Effect? Every year that a technology manages to remain alive, the greater its continued life expectancy.
#Fantom
is the oldest smart contract chain after Ethereum, over 4 years of operation with 99.9% uptime. 🟢
Every minute of every day, the
@FantomFDN
Ecosystem Vault is amassing value 💸
Now at 215,000 $FTM
When the restructuring process described below is ready, expect to see funds flowing to contributors on
#Fantom
🧑🔬
Some great proposals out there already!
It is no secret that memecoins are the degen theme of this cycle 🤡
The resurrection of the $FTM degen is coming
Here are 7 new applications that will bring the degen playground to Fantom Opera + Sonic
(1/7) 🧵
Low float + high FDV is dominating CT discussion (Thanks
@cobie
et al)
An interesting observation 👇
$FTM (soon to be $S) at $3B FDV with 88% circulating supply is the exact INVERSE relative to its market niche (alt L1)
#Fantom
is high float & low FDV, up 40% on the week.
So you're a
#Solidity
dev wanting:
✅Fastest confirmation times
✅Smoothest user experience
✅Synchronous RPC
🚫No callback hell
✅True finality
Good news!
#Fantom
fits your needs.
Register for our hackathon w/$50,000 prize pool up for grabs🤑
Will you grab a slice of pie??🥧
Register today for the
#FantomHackathon
Q1 2023!!
Create innovative dApps on
#Fantom
for a chance to share a $50,000 prize pool 💰
Prizes include:
⭐ Most Creative
⭐ Best GameFi
⭐ Best Trading App
See inside for official rules & registration
➡️
Eyes on the prize, folks 🏆
This isn't just about payments.
"We're trying to create the decentralized web"
-
@AndreCronjeTech
ETH Dubai March 2023
This is what
#FantomSonic
is aiming for.
☢️Unpopular facts that got ignored☢️
1⃣ There were 25 chains affected by Multichain
2⃣ Fantom assets were 27% of the TVL loss of Multichain
Below, Andre speaks on
@MultichainOrg
x
#Fantom
Source:
@TheBlock__
Hackathons are a great way to discover projects in their early stages 🧪
The
#FantomHackathon
(registrations OPEN!) will bring fresh perspectives & new applications to the network.
What kind of innovations or dApps do you hope to see on
#Fantom
? 💬
Post yours below, I'll start
Went back to re-read old blog posts from AC the other day. Lots of wisdom we sorely needed this year..
Here are some quotes and lessons from
@AndreCronjeTech
whom without — like it or not — $FTM, DeFi and the wider crypto space would not be as sophisticated as it is today.
🧵👇
Transaction speed & low fees still matter, especially if a chain wants to remain part of a larger narrative
While 10k+ TPS at 1s TTF is no easy task, over time it will become expected as standard
In this world, 2 things will be true
1⃣ Builders and creators who utilize this
The
#Fantom
Sonic closed testnet is live again ✅
So far, the testnet has mainly processed transactions that resemble real traffic, composed of token transfers, mints, and swaps, which has allowed us to showcase the performance of Sonic in conditions that represent actual usage.
Very few memes have crossed $1M marketcap on
#Fantom
(do with this info what you like)
What separates those that make it? 🤔
What will be the next one? 🧐
$SPEEDY
#MUTTSKI
$THC
$sGOAT
$HOOPS
$fSONIC
I need to show you something game-changing coming on
#Sonic
@0xSonicLabs
is focused on these on-boarding bottlenecks + developer scaling incentives:
→ Gas Monetization
→ Account Abstraction (AA)
→ Gas Subsidies
A short 🧵 explaining each simply 👇
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#Fantom
's objective is known:
Empower a flourishing habitat of decentralized applications benefiting from the same base layer security.
A developer's refuge, where anyone is free to build viable businesses, securely.
Explore your domain:
👉
Trigger warning: the brief multiUSDC re-peg from $0.50 to ~$0.90 we witnessed last week was the incredible result of a savvy crypto arbitrageur and a crypto casino similar to rollbit
Insane background story of a guy who arbitraged
#Multichain
$USDC during the de-peg event while
They say you never forget your first rug.
Getting rugged hurts everyone involved = the ecosystem, the victims, & the rugger's eternal soul.
Below is a list of 8 criteria + EVM-based tools to help keep you safe when buying or researching memecoins or other early projects.
#Fantom
's mission is clear:
Provide the highest throughput blockchain possible, to host applications by anyone in the world.
A single, secure settlement layer welcoming all decentralized activity.
Find escape velocity:
👉
This is why I'm so bullish on Sonic.
People use Fantom and compare it to Solana now..
Wait until they're using Sonic tech... ~2,000 TPS at sub second finality.
gg no re
#SonicSeason
Major Catalysts
➭ New token $S on the Sonic L1 chain
➭ Massive 190,000,000 $S airdrop campaign
➭ Native bridge connecting Sonic + Ethereum
➭ $1B LST opportunity via revamped validator staking
➭ Increase to 90% smart contract gas fee share
➭ Innovator Fund
Account abstraction is logging into your crypto wallet with the simplicity of Facebook (or with your literal face) and making secure transactions.
Gas subsidies is the freedom to transact anywhere on-chain without jumping through the hoops of owning the gas token first.
Soon.
This week the crypto space saw a milestone: 1 BILLION smart contracts deployed!
Notably,
#Fantom
makes up 16% of this total, with over 161,600,000 contracts deployed 💪
🥇 Polygon
🥈 BNB
🥉 Fantom
$FTM fees going brrrrrrrr 💸💸💸
Ecosystem vault went from
250,000 --> almost 300,000 in 10 days
That's 50,000 $FTM (or about $23,000) available for builders to claim, generated in less than 2 weeks time.
TL;DR
- $USDC.e on
#Fantom
with Wormhole + Circle support
- Canonical stable across all of Fantom, and future network upgrade
-
@FantomFDN
to provide liquidity in bridge
- Capability to upgrade to native $USDC, USDC.e can transition seamlessly to native when time comes
We are excited to announce that Fantom's canonical stablecoin, $USDC.e, will launch tomorrow (April 5), supported by
@Circle
and
@Wormhole
🎉
USDC.e on Wormhole is bridged from native $USDC, located in a smart contract on Ethereum, and holds the potential to be upgraded to
People mention the fact that $S will get a fresh chart and how it's bullish for new price discovery
But we can't ignore how bullish the legacy $FTM chart looks + the past ATH and local Fibonnaci extensions as well
Local Fib extends to $1.81, $2.77, $3.73, $4.32 blow off
ATH Fib
Running a validator node on
#Fantom
just got a lot easier.
Now a user needs only 50k $FTM to get up and running (~7% APR)
In 2019, a validator needed 3M+!
Will this pose a security risk?
What are the differences between all types of nodes helping to secure the network?
For the record,
I like the cat in the metal hat
I like the demon who's plottin' n schemein'
I like the ghost in white satin panties
I like the pill that'll still shill frens for a thrill
I like the SEGA crew, 1 in every color, find em on the cover
$FTM fam FOEVER ✊
8,200 tps + 1.19 sec ttf + 367M gas per sec
with
full EVM compatibility
full EVM compatibility
full EVM compatibility
full EVM compatibility
full EVM compatibility
full EVM compatibility
full EVM compatibility
full EVM compatibility
full EVM compatibility
$FTM
Scalability is still measuring the *wrong targets*
Crypto isn't just here to disrupt legacy payment networks.
How many HTTP requests happen on the internet per second?
This is how
@FantomFDN
thinks about blockchain development & our place in the decentralized web.
🔊🔊🔊
Fun
#FTM
trivia fact:
#Fantom
has been emitting blocks since 27 Dec '19.
There is a greater than 99.9% chance it will emit blocks tomorrow. And the next day. And the day after that.
If you've been around long enough, you know uptime isn't something u can always take for granted
This Meme Season taught us a valuable lesson 🧠
hold $SOL memecoins = get rekt (go to zero)
hold $FTM memecoins = get paid (collect $)
Example: someone with 0.33% of the $HOOPS supply got $6,322 worth of $sFTMx just for holding 😂
See the loot posts in this thread 🧵
What a crazy run it's been!
My time with
@0xSonicLabs
draws to a close soon
Fantom was home for a very long time, during which there were endless highs + lows, making for incredible experiences I wouldn't trade for anything!
My frens we've truly been on this journey together,