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Sep 2024
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#374: Michael Kong, CEO of Sonic, on Reb...

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Michael Kong is an influential thought leader and developer concentrated on the expansion of blockchain technology and CEO and CIO of Sonic Labs (previously Fantom). Before Sonic, Kong served as CTO of myStake, Digital Currency Holdings, and Liberté & Co. He has been a part of the ETH community since 2013.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- Rebranding from Fantom to Sonic Labs
- Everyone launching a coin after November U.S election
- Sonic Boom: ~200M $S airdrop to spur adoption of the network
- $FTM to $S Token Merge - how to take advantage and get your tokens
- DeFi applications within the Sonic ecosystem
- Upcoming launch of Sonic Mainnet
- Stories from testnet and timeline for Mainnet (Dec 1)
- Sonic’s bridge to ETH
- Cross-chain communication + interoperability
- Outlook for the next few months before testnet
- Sonic’s insanely high TPS

Sonic Labs
Website: www.soniclabs.com
X: @0xSonicLabs
Telegram: t.me/Sonic_English

Michael Kong
X: @michaelfkong
LinkedIn: Michael Kong

 
 
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