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The first gaming SVM on Solana, Sonic, has released benchmarks for its ongoing testnet. More than 1 million monthly active wallets participated, generating more than 600M transactions in the process.
Known as Sonic Origins, the first testnet phase was designed to optimize the capacity of Sonic’s scalable L2 and measure meaningful metrics including throughput and stability. A record number of users participated in the campaign, racking up hundreds of millions of transactions while interacting with games deployed on the network.
A total of eight games were available for testnet participants to play including Rage Effect, JogoJogo, and LowLifeForms. These initial games have enabled Solana users to experience the benefits of web3 gaming on a purpose-built L2 that supports both SVM and EVM-powered dapps.
More than 250K wallets alone registered to play JogoJogo’s prediction-based game. Live data and statistics pertaining to Sonic SVM’s ongoing testnet can be viewed at https://explorer.sonic.game/.
Sonic SVM Co-Founder Chris Zhu said: “Sonic Origins has seen impressive results in user demand in terms of user engagement and we’re excited to see real implementation,and growth of an organic community around Sonic as we launch as one of the first SVMs on Solana. The second half of the testnet will showcase more flagship titles that the entire ecosystem is excited about, and build out the best technical primitives to enable Solana gaming for builders and users.”
The next phase of the testnet, known as Sonic Frontier, is now underway. It will see more ecosystem partners and games onboarded, providing further incentives for users to explore Sonic SVM. More than 10 new games will be added in the process. Existing Solana protocols will also be integrated, expanding the ways in which users can interact with the Sonic SVM testnet.
Sonic Frontier will also roll out the latest iteration of HyperGrid, the framework used for horizontal scaling that allows it to handle millions of requests per second that are settled on Solana L1. HyperGrid Shared State Network (HSSN), a shared validator network that sequences and finalizes grid transactions onto Solana, will add more validators during this phase.
The new testnet deployment will also introduce a whitelisting process for onboarding new projects, developers, builders, and users. Following completion of Sonic Frontier, Sonic SVM will prepare for its mainnet launch, marking a new era for web3 gaming on Solana.
About Sonic
Sonic is a gaming L2 built on HyperGrid, a parallel processing framework designed to introduce customizability and scale while being natively composable to Solana. Sonic is the first atomic SVM chain built to enable sovereign game economies on Solana. Sonic enables sovereign game economies that roll-up and settle on Solana.
Learn more: https://www.sonic.game/