Cookiebox just dropped another 3,700 $COOK into the @TheCookieChain community multisig 🏦
Second contribution locked. 25% of protocol revenue keeps flowing back to the ecosystem.
Tx: https://t.co/UccXM9JOzt
Donations: https://t.co/3bVxyd0kTf
Baking value back into the 🍪⛓️
One thing @toly proved is that the SVM is much bigger than a single chain.
That’s exactly why $COOK @TheCookieChain exists.
We’re an independent SVM Layer 1 built on the Solana codebase. Not an L2, not a rollup, not an appchain.
The part I’m most proud of isn’t the tech.
It’s that we’ve done it with zero VC funding
In roughly a month we’ve:
-Produced 10M+ slots.
-Brought 4 independent validators online.
-Integrated native @hyperlane interoperability.
-Made an ecosystem from the ground, with 20+ working apps.
-Got listed on @DefiLlama as a native chain.
Meanwhile, we’ve all seen projects raise $5M–10M+, sell their tokens with huge promises, and then leave holders with ecosystems that barely evolve.
Raising money isn’t an achievement.
Shipping is.
Projects like @Pumpfun proved that a strong product and an obsessed community can outperform massive fundraising rounds.
We believe infrastructure should be no different.
Build first. Ship relentlessly. Earn the community’s trust instead of buying attention.
That’s the culture we’re trying to build with Cookie Chain. 🍪
🍪Introducing cookie-mcp.
Give any AI agent full on-chain superpowers on Cookie Chain.
Read the market, swap, launch tokens, LP, stake, trade NFTs, and bridge to Solana - all by just talking to your agent.
Open source. Non-custodial. Live on npm now. 🧵
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This article from @turbahn does a great job explaining the evolution of the SVM ecosystem.
Please read it first here: https://t.co/oXZCnn74h0
It clearly lays out why the SVM is expanding beyond Solana itself: parallel execution, local fee markets, shared global state, and a developer experience that is attracting more builders every day.
But while I was reading it, one thing stood out to me.
Almost every chain mentioned is still dependent on another network.
Eclipse settles on Ethereum.
SOON extends Solana.
Others are building different variations of the same idea: taking the SVM and deploying it on top of somebody else’s infrastructure.
They’re interesting projects, but it raises a question.
If the SVM is truly one of the most powerful execution environments in crypto, why is almost everyone treating it as an extension rather than a blockchain?
Why are we seeing endless L2s, appchains, and settlement-layer experiments, but very few sovereign SVM networks?
That’s what makes @TheCookieChain interesting.
Instead of extending another chain, it’s building a native SVM L1 from the ground up. Independent validators. Independent consensus. Independent economy. Community-run and community-funded.
We stopped talking about an SVM layer now and we are talking about an actual SVM blockchain.
And I think Solana benefits from this far more than many people realize.
The biggest competitor to Solana isn’t another SVM chain.
It’s the EVM ecosystem.
Ethereum didn’t become dominant because a single chain won. It became dominant because an entire ecosystem standardized around the EVM. Chains, rollups, developers, tooling, infrastructure, and capital all reinforced each other.
SVM needs the same effect.
More native SVM chains means more builders, more tooling, more experimentation, and more awareness flowing into the entire ecosystem.
And ultimately that strengthens Solana’s position as the original and most mature SVM chain.
The article captures where SVM is today.
The next chapter is proving that SVM doesn’t need to live as a guest on other networks. It can stand on its own. That’s what we do here at Cookie Chain.
on most chains, "staking APY" is mostly inflation. you're not really earning, you're just not getting diluted. opt out and you lose value.
$COOK has a fixed 1B supply. no printer. so the yield comes from real value, and $bCOOK holders capture it while staying fully liquid.
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bull markets reward capital.
bear markets reward builders.
the best projects are usually obvious in hindsight because they never stopped shipping.
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