How Sonic's 90% fee model is changing developer strategies Sonic Labs' 90% fee-sharing model (FeeM) significantly alters the monetization approach for blockchain developers. Without issuing tokens or operating dedicated chains, developers can take home 90% of the transaction fees generated by their apps. This removes traditional barriers such as legal risks, infrastructure costs, and lack of revenue. This contrasts with the case of Uniswap, which generated $947 million in fee revenue but remained at $0 in protocol revenue. Sonic enables developers to earn revenue immediately after deployment through automatic distribution, gas tracing, and oracle verification structures. Within months of its mainnet launch, over 225 apps generated approximately $300,000 in revenue, and major protocols like Aave have deployed due to FeeM incentives. Small teams can start without cost burdens, similar to a 'usage-based SaaS' model, and grow independently based on usage. However, there are risks...
What does it mean that 90% of the fee goes to Sonic's app developers?
For existing dApp developers to make money,
1. They need to take a commission on their own platform, or
2. Issue tokens (which may be useless tokens but are packaged as governance something), or
3. In extreme cases, they had to create their own chains directly.
The fact that a revenue source can be generated without doing so means that
for users, the burden of fees may be reduced, and
developers will take on less risk from options 2 and 3, which will lead to the active development of the @SonicLabs builder ecosystem.
Since better apps lead to more users and more revenue, can we expect an overall increase in the quality of dApps in the ecosystem?
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