Sonic Integrates Chainlink for Cross-Chain Interoperability
Date: 2025-01-23 Author: Gabriel Deangelo Categories: BLOCKCHAIN
The Chainlink integration gives developers access to the oracle network’s infrastructure, allowing them to build and run decentralized applications that run on both Sonic and other blockchains. In addition to CCIP, the company has also implemented Chainlink’s Data Streams and Data Feeds.
This move was made possible by Sonic Labs’ participation in Chainlink’s SCALE program in September 2024.
“Chainlink has been long awaited by the Sonic developer community, and we are excited to announce that CCIP, Data Streams, and Data Feeds are now live on our mainnet. These technologies open up new opportunities for building cross-chain solutions and developing high-performance DeFi applications,” said Sam Harcourt, Head of Business Development at Sonic Labs.
The new integration offers a number of improvements, including increased network security, the ability to create programmable cross-chain tokens, and support for arbitrary cross-chain messaging.
The Chainlink standard has already been adopted by major financial institutions such as Fidelity International, Swift, and ANZ Bank, and is also actively used by popular DeFi projects including Lido, Aave, and GMX.
As a reminder, the Sonic mainnet, compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine, launched in December 2024 and supports up to 10,000 transactions per second with finality in under a second.
In early January, Sonic also adopted Circle's USDC stablecoin standard, using the Sonic Gateway to kickstart developer activity on the platform. Additionally, a preliminary vote was held in December to propose the integration of Aave v3 on the Sonic platform.
