Sonic SVM Introduces Attention Capital Markets: The World’s First Blockchain Infrastructure for Monetizing Digital Attention
New York, NY, May 20th, 2025, Chainwire
Today, the Sonic SVM team published Sonic SVM Attention Capital Market, a groundbreaking protocol that establishes the world’s first functioning market for human attention as a programmable on-chain asset. Built on the innovative Hypergrid Shared State Network (HSSN) architecture, this new infrastructure represents a paradigm shift in how digital engagement is measured, valued, and rewarded in the Web3 ecosystem.
“We’ve created more than just technological infrastructure—we’re launching a new economic paradigm where attention becomes a first-class asset class,” said Chris Zhu. “In the information age, human attention is arguably our most valuable resource. Our protocol systematically captures, quantifies, and redistributes this attention as programmable capital. This is a huge implication to on-chain economies, especially on the appchain layer”
Pioneering a New Asset Class
The Sonic SVM protocol transforms the concept of the attention economy into tangible, programmable value through four key innovations:
- Attention Capital Funnel: A systematic framework that transforms off-chain awareness into measurable on-chain value, creating clear metrics for dApp growth strategies
- Authority Score System: A PageRank-inspired approach that fosters ecosystem-wide synergy by rewarding both individual program performance and collaborative network effects
- Programmatic Attention Metrics: Precise measurement of engagement over defined epochs, including activity metrics (user interactions, unique wallets) and economic metrics (transaction value flow, staking volume)
- The Attention Flywheel: A sophisticated incentive mechanism enabling dApps to reinvest earned rewards into user acquisition and engagement, creating a self-sustaining growth cycle
Technical Infrastructure That Makes It Possible
The Sonic SVM Attention Capital Market is powered by the HSSN architecture, which consists of three types of specialized nodes:
- Relay Nodes: Gateway for applications to interact with the network via RPC
- HSSN Nodes: Distributed persistency layer for high-availability state across the network
- Grid Nodes: Sequencers responsible for transaction processing, account persistency, and program-level distributions
This robust technical foundation ensures the attention capital market operates with high throughput, transparent metrics, and fair reward distribution.
Empowering a Meritocratic Digital Economy
“Until now, attention in crypto has been recognized as valuable but never properly measured or fairly monetized,” noted the team. “Our protocol creates a meritocratic system where developers are directly rewarded based on verifiable user engagement, not just token speculation or venture backing.”
The system benefits all ecosystem participants:
- Developers gain a sustainable funding mechanism tied directly to user engagement
- Users experience better applications as developers are incentivized to create genuine utility
- The Network thrives through an ecosystem of high-quality applications with engaged users
Availability and Next Steps
The Sonic SVM team has published a comprehensive whitepaper detailing the technical specifications and economic model of the Attention Capital Market. The protocol will enter a public testnet phase in June 2025, with mainnet launch scheduled for Q3 2025.
Developers interested in participating in the testnet or learning more about building on the Attention Capital Market can visit https://www.sonic.game/, follow our socials to sign up for future updates on the protocol.
About Sonic SVM
Sonic SVM is the first chain extension SVM to launch on Solana – developing a groundbreaking blockchain protocol that serves as a programmable attention settlement layer. Built on the HSSN network, it offers consensus-level validation of attention-related transactions, granular on-chain access to user activity across dApps, and composable primitives that eliminate the need for each project to build bespoke attention infrastructure.