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[Nene Defi @Defire_Ryta]

@dop_org Just remembered that I didn't claim my DOP

[Haleem.py @haleemisthename]

SIMULATING SONIC'S GROWTH TRAJECTORY AND WHY IT MATTERS FOR BUILDERS.

I’ve been seeing a lot of people sleep on Sonic lately but one thing that drives ecosystem up?

Momentum.

And Sonic’s got it right now.

So I decided to run a quick simulation. What happens if Sonic keeps growing at the pace it’s been moving? Or even better, what if it accelerates?

Using last week’s transaction count (4,770,172 txs), I modeled what the numbers could look like over the next 12 weeks under three scenarios:

Baseline growth: 5% weekly
Optimistic growth: 12% weekly
Aggressive growth: 20% weekly

Now fast forward to week 10:

Baseline → 7.7M weekly transactions
Optimistic → 13M weekly transactions
Aggressive → 25M weekly transactions

And here’s the interesting part for builders.

Sonic pays builders a fee per transaction. Assume a fixed \$0.0018 per transaction.

What’s builder income looking like at those transaction counts?

Baseline → $7.7K to $15K per week
Optimistic → 13M weekly transactions
Aggressive → 25M weekly transactions

And here’s the interesting part for builders.

Sonic pays builders a fee per transaction. Assume a fixed \$0.0018 per tx (conservative, but fair for this sim). What’s builder income looking like at those transaction counts?

Baseline → $7.7K to $15K per week
Optimistic → $7.7K to $30K per week
Aggressive → $7.7K to $67K per week

this is exactly what momentum markets look like. The higher the activity, the more the flywheel turns. Builders aren’t just hoping for price appreciation, they’re earning real fees from real activity.

And this is what most people miss.

Ecosystems like this aren’t driven by just speculation. They’re powered by transactions. And as long as people are clicking buttons, swapping, staking, and minting, builders keep stacking fees.

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[Haleem.py @haleemisthename]

Something interesting happened yesterday.
I was chatting with a colleague about a guy who started building a house without a proper blueprint.

No plans. Just vibes.

Trying to figure it out as they build

At first, it looked fine.
Foundation was poured.
Walls went up.

Then the problems started.

The staircase didn’t align with the upstairs landing.
Plumbing pipes ran through the kitchen wall.
And the structure couldn’t handle the planned second floor.

You know what happened next?
They tore half the house down and spent double to fix an avoidable mess.

Okay… that never actually happened.

But you see that sinking feeling you just had reading this?
That’s how I feel watching projects launch tokens without simulations.

And this? Isn’t a metaphor

Too many projects build tokens on vibes and whitepapers.
No simulations. No stress tests. No models.

Just staking rewards, emissions, airdrops on a spreadsheet.

It looks fine at first:

TVL spikes
Discord pops
Hype everywhere

Then comes month 2.

Yield farmers bleed liquidity
Whales farm and dump
Incentives misalign
Community dries up

Why?
Because no one stress-tested the system.

If you wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint…
Why launch a token without a simulation?

I’m not throwing shade.
I was like that too.

Until I took @matty_ tokenomics course and realized how thin the line is between a well-balanced token and a protocol death spiral.

Then I started running simulations myself.

And I discovered the problem isn’t just ignorance.
It’s that most simulations tools are complex, and inaccessible to non-quants.

A very smart person once told me:
“The future of Web3 is abstracting complexity for better user experience.”

That stuck with me.

So I built SIMLAB, a clean, founder-friendly simulation playground.

Test your token economy before you launch.
Run supply models, vesting schedules, and token price simulations.

No coding. No spreadsheets. No guesswork.

If you’re launching a token in 2025 and your model only lives in a spreadsheet…

You’re gambling, not building.

SIMLAB is live.
Play with it. Stress test your ideas.
Tell me what breaks.

Link: https://t.co/UCpRsf05GW

be sure to send a message if you find it helpful or its breaking somewhere or you just find me interesting. i am trying to make friends here.

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[Nene Defi @Defire_Ryta]

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[Nene Defi @Defire_Ryta]

💧 I Got My AirDROP! Earned Tokens for my Twitter account age! #DropOnX

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[Nene Defi @Defire_Ryta]

Seriously blew my mind reading about Token Centric Architecture enabled by ERC-5169🤯. This type of composability is what will take blockchain mainstream! #smartlayer

[Nene Defi @Defire_Ryta]

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[Xertra @XertraPlatform]

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[Xertra @XertraPlatform]

A New Dawn for Stratis! The most significant change to Stratis since the platform was founded in 2016. 🚀 We will now focus on web3 gaming, first step is moving to our own Ethereum based chain!

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[Nene Defi @Defire_Ryta]

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[Nene Defi @Defire_Ryta]

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[Nene Defi @Defire_Ryta]

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[Nene Defi @Defire_Ryta]

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[Nene Defi @Defire_Ryta]

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