Episode Details

E116: CoFounder of Sonic Labs: Why He Gave Away Billions in Crypto (and now completely regrets it)
4/10/2025
When Shift Happens Podcast β†—

Key Insights

Bullish:

  • 🟒 $SONIC - Sonic is presented as a superior blockchain technology with significant performance advantages over current blockchains, including faster transaction finality and improved user experience through native account abstraction.
    • β€œCurrent blockchains are, you know, a 56k dial up modem, and Sonic is ADSL.” - Andre (55:06)
    • β€œTime to finality with Sonic is sub 200 milliseconds. You click it, it's done.” - Andre (59:34)
    • β€œNative account abstraction with economic abstraction, which means the user will never need it on it. They'll use their Google off email password, fingerprint, face, whatever it is, to access the dApp and to interact with it.” - Andre (59:09)
  • 🟒 $DAPP - πŸ”’
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  • 🟒 $UX - πŸ”’
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Bearish:

  • πŸ”» $FTM - πŸ”’
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