Sonic S
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CM Profile: Sonic
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about S, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 2.51% and 2.62%, on 3 November 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold S. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 3 November- Price down 16.9% since 27 October.
- On Kraken, $100,000 now costs 2.6% to sell, against 7.4% over the previous month.
The price fell while selling got cheaper.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell S
Selling $100,000 of S into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coinbase S/USD | 2.51% | $97,488 | 2026-11-03 |
| Kraken S/USD | 2.62% | $97,381 | 2026-11-03 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps S on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Sonic is
Sonic is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed for decentralized finance applications. The source material does not identify the organization behind it or give a founding date.
The chain is built around throughput and developer incentives. It states a capacity of 400,000 transactions per second with sub-second finality. Its Fee Monetization (FeeM) program returns up to 90% of the fees an application generates back to the developer who built it, modeled on ad-revenue sharing rather than a fixed emissions schedule. A separate component, the Sonic Gateway, bridges assets to and from Ethereum through a native connection, with a fail-safe mechanism described as protecting assets held in the bridge.
What's missing from the public description matters. There is no stated founding team, company, or launch date to verify against — claims of being the "highest-performing" EVM L1 are not independently measurable here and should be treated as unverified. The throughput and finality figures are the chain's own stated specifications, not externally benchmarked numbers. The FeeM revenue share applies to developers of applications built on Sonic, not to holders of the S token itself — nothing in the source ties token ownership to a share of those fees. The Gateway's "fail-safe mechanism" is described only in general terms, with no technical detail on what failure modes it actually covers. CoinGecko classifies the asset as a Smart Contract Platform and Layer 1 token within the Sonic Ecosystem and Galaxy Digital Portfolio categories; this is a market classification, not a statement about token utility or governance rights.
What Sonic can do
Selling $100,000 on Coinbase lost 2.51% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 3 November 2026
S can be delegated to a validator to earn rewards. Withdrawing a stake takes a 14-day wait. Sonic's docs say that if the validator is penalized for misconduct or for errors in its setup, the stake delegated to it can be affected too.
Source: Sonic docs: S token · checked 2 October 2026
S is the native token of Sonic and pays its transaction fees. Sonic's docs describe the chain as compatible with Ethereum's programs. Each app is its own code with its own flaws.
Sources: Sonic docs: S token, Sonic docs: overview · checked 2 October 2026
S has no fixed total. New S is issued for an airdrop and for yearly funding over six years, with unused amounts burned. After the network's first four years, new S is to be issued at 1.75% a year to reward validators.
Source: Sonic docs: S token · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
About the asset
Sonic has no token contract — it is the native asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Price change
Sonic data synced 23s ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell S.