Swapping on and across Sonic

Sonic is a Layer 1 blockchain that prioritizes throughput and fast finality. Its contract environment is EVM-compatible, so it uses Ethereum-style token standards and addresses, while its native asset S pays for gas on the network.

The pitch is speed: Sonic aims for very quick confirmation and high transaction capacity, which makes it attractive for active swapping. As with any chain, real performance varies with conditions rather than a guaranteed constant.

Multiswap compares routes from the engines that quote Sonic instead of holding its own liquidity. For a Sonic swap it queries same-chain and cross-chain engines in parallel and ranks the quotes by net output after estimated gas.

Since Sonic is a newer, fast L1, comparing across engines is especially useful. Liquidity is still developing, so the best route can vary more between pairs than on a mature chain.

Gas on Sonic is paid in S, so you keep a little S available to transact once you're there. A common first step is swapping into a small amount of S alongside whatever else you're moving, so you aren't left holding tokens you can't act on for lack of gas.

Because Sonic is EVM-compatible, addresses look like any EVM address. Confirm the destination network before sending, since the familiar format makes it easy to target the wrong chain.

Sonic's native token is S, which pays for gas, and wS is its wrapped form — a short ticker that is easy to misread when you are scanning a list. Dollar exposure is USDC and USDT, and WETH and LINK cover the familiar majors.

Where Sonic stands out is Bitcoin representations: WBTC, LBTC, scBTC, xBTC, FBTC, uniBTC and SolvBTC.BBN all appear. They are not interchangeable with each other and none of them is native BTC. If native Bitcoin is what you want, the destination to choose is the Bitcoin network itself.