Sonic

What is Sonic?

Sonic is the first atomic Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) chain built to power sovereign game economies on Solana. Designed for high-performance, decentralized gaming, Sonic provides a scalable, efficient environment where developers can create immersive experiences without compromising decentralization. Unlike traditional blockchain gaming solutions that suffer from congestion and resource competition, Sonic’s atomic SVM architecture allows games to maintain independent economies while staying secured by Solana. Its HyperGrid framework ensures seamless performance by giving each game its own dedicated grid, supporting massive multiplayer interactions and complex marketplaces. Sorada revolutionizes data efficiency with 30-40x faster read performance and ultra-low response times (as low as 5ms), enabling real-time gameplay. Rush, Sonic’s ECS framework, streamlines development by letting creators define game worlds via simple configuration files, automatically generating smart contracts and SDKs—eliminating the need for deep blockchain expertise. With these innovations, Sonic sets a new standard for scalable, high-performance blockchain gaming on Solana.

What is Sonic staking?

Staking is a great way for long-term crypto investors to earn passive income on their Proof-of-Stake cryptocurrency assets (such as SONIC) while taking part in securing the network.

Stakers, by delegating tokens to validators, give voting rights to these to validate transactions on the blockchain and propose new blocks. The more stake is attributed to a validator, the more it will be able to take part in the network consensus and earn rewards for its stakers.

A quick example: Suppose a blockchain network offers a 5% reward rate for a staking period of 1 year (5% APR). You decide to lock up and stake 100 tokens on the network. After a year, you can access your staked tokens, and you receive 5 additional tokens as your reward – minus eventual fees charged by the staking provider.

Staking Proof-of-Stake (PoS) cryptocurrencies such as SONIC does not require stakers to transfer their token to validators. It is a non-custodial process.

Why is Stakin a great choice for Sonic staking?

Staking your assets on your own is operationally challenging as it requires specialist expertise to set up nodes and ensure constant uptime to maximize rewards or prevent so-called slashing: partial loss of your staked cryptocurrencies due to prolonged downtime, or inappropriate/malicious behavior by the node operator.

Stakin is an excellent choice for staking your Sonic (SONIC) tokens, as we have a strong expertise and track record of reliable operations on this network. Stakin has been a Sonic operator since testnets and a Mainnet operator since 2025.

There are several advantages when staking your SONIC tokens with Stakin, such as:

• Triple AAA-rated institutional staking provider by Staking Rewards

• ISO 27001 certified staking provider

• Tracking dashboard, to easily track and generate reports for the performance of your staked assets

• Reliable infrastructure - We distribute our servers across various geographical locations and partner with premier bare metal and cloud providers

• Dedicated support for all your staking, unstaking, and network-related questions

• Institutional grade SLAs with uptime and slashing guarantees

What kind of institutional services does Stakin offer for Sonic (SONIC) Staking?

As an institutional-grade Sonic node operator, Stakin has a full range of staking services and advantages to cater to the needs of enterprises and investors, such as asset managers, company treasuries, exchanges, VCs and hedge funds, wallets, custodians, and liquid staking services.

• Institutional grade SLAs with 99.5%+ uptime guarantees and slashing guarantees.

• Dedicated Account Manager to answer all your technical and commercial questions

• Information about potential airdrops that you may be eligible for by staking with us so that stakers can maximize your staking yield

• Custom integrations and solutions such as custom performance reporting via API or CSV with the possibility to match your backend requirements

• Whitelabel and dedicated nodes with dedicated infrastructure which can be deployed in your preferred region to fit decentralization or compliance needs

• Automated commission and reward management with clear reporting

• 24/7 monitoring and alerting with a private dashboard for dedicated and whitelabel nodes

• Free premium access to Stakin Dashboard which includes staking data visualization across any validator and premium historical data features (on selected networks)