Disseminated on Behalf of: SonicStrategy Inc.
Mitchell Demeter, Executive Chairman of SonicStrategy Inc. (CSE: SONI | OTCQB: SONIF), discusses how the company provides investors with traditional market access to one of the fastest-growing Layer 1 blockchains, Sonic. Demeter explains how Sonic’s unmatched transaction speed, regulatory clarity, and innovative developer incentives could reshape the foundation of decentralized finance, offering both scalability and accessibility to mainstream investors.
Bringing blockchain within reach for traditional investors
SonicStrategy is a digital asset treasury company designed to connect traditional investors with the rapidly expanding world of blockchain infrastructure. Operating at the intersection of decentralized technology and regulated finance, the company manages a portfolio of digital assets while building staking infrastructure on the Sonic blockchain, a next-generation Layer 1 network known for speed, scalability, and developer incentives.
As global financial systems increasingly migrate toward blockchain-based models, SonicStrategy enables investors to participate without the complexity of cryptocurrency exchanges or digital wallets. Its mission is to make blockchain investment accessible, compliant, and professionally managed, offering a simple entry point into one of the most transformative technological shifts in modern finance.
A blockchain built for speed, scale, and real-world finance
What sets SonicStrategy apart is its focus on accessibility and performance. Instead of requiring investors to directly hold or manage cryptocurrencies, SonicStrategy acts as a proxy, acquiring, securing, and managing blockchain-based assets on their behalf. This model eliminates the need for seed phrases, custody concerns, or unregulated exchanges.
At the core of this strategy is the Sonic blockchain, which represents the next evolution in decentralized infrastructure. While legacy blockchains like Ethereum process roughly 15 to 20 transactions per second, Sonic is capable of up to 400,000 transactions per second with sub-second finality. This speed enables real-time settlement, low-cost transactions, and scalability capable of supporting global financial infrastructure.
“In the financial world, when seconds matter… you need to know that those transactions are finalized instantly and that the transactions can’t be reversed after,” says SonicStrategy’s Executive Chairman, Mitchell Demeter.
Positioned early in blockchain’s next market cycle
The market potential for high-speed, scalable blockchains is immense. As decentralized applications expand into banking, payments, and enterprise solutions, networks capable of processing millions of transactions daily are poised to become foundational to the next phase of digital finance.
SonicStrategy’s public market model gives investors regulated exposure to that growth. Instead of navigating complex digital exchanges, investors can simply buy shares through traditional brokerage accounts, gaining indirect exposure to Sonic’s performance and ecosystem expansion.
“Ethereum was the first one to build out these decentralized blockchains built for decentralized finance. They’re more like dial-up internet, where it’s slow, it’s antiquated, and it’s expensive,” Demeter explains. “With Sonic, it’s fast. It’s basically like fibre internet.”
By providing early-stage access to a rapidly growing ecosystem, SonicStrategy offers investors a way to participate before the broader market re-rates these assets.
Strong milestones are signaling momentum
SonicStrategy’s growth trajectory has been marked by strong execution and strategic expansion. The company recently secured a U.S. market listing, broadening its investor base and unlocking new liquidity channels. This move complements its Canadian listing, reinforcing its presence in both major North American markets.
At the same time, the Sonic blockchain has achieved remarkable adoption, surpassing US$1 billion in total value locked within just 106 days, one of the fastest rates ever recorded. Its developer-friendly model returns up to 90 per cent of transaction fees to app builders, a design that fuels innovation and user engagement across decentralized finance, gaming, and enterprise applications.
“We’re merging those two worlds… (the) up-and-coming Web3 world and the traditional finance world,” Demeter adds. “(We’re) giving investors exposure to an asset like this through a traditional brokerage account… and the upside is yet to come.”
Looking ahead, SonicStrategy intends to continue expanding its asset base to deepen its role as a gateway between traditional finance and the decentralized economy.
Merging innovation with investor confidence
As blockchain technology continues to merge with mainstream finance, SonicStrategy stands at the forefront of that transition. By simplifying access, ensuring compliance, and leveraging the world’s fastest-growing Layer 1 network, the company offers investors a direct path into the future of digital assets, all through the familiarity of traditional markets.
Transcript
Jim Gordon
Hi, I’m Jim Gordon, and you’re watching Market One Minute. Joining us is Mitchell Demeter of SonicStrategy Inc. Welcome.
Mitchell Demeter
Thank you, Jim.
Jim Gordon
Okay. Lots of notes, lots of questions, lots to unpack. Let’s start, Mitchell, big picture. Tell our viewers a bit about SonicStrategy.
Mitchell Demeter
Yeah, absolutely. So SonicStrategy is a digital asset treasury company focused on the Sonic blockchain and the Sonic ecosystem.
Jim Gordon
And why should investors pay attention to Sonic Blockchain specifically? It’s very competitive.
Mitchell Demeter
Yeah, absolutely. So for us, we’ve been involved in the space for a long time. I got involved in the space back in 2013 myself, and so I’ve kind of watched the evolution of these blockchains from Bitcoin to Ethereum to Solana, and Sonic is something that caught my eye a few years back.
You know, basically, we’ve got a ton of different blockchains right now. We firmly believe that the future of finance is going to be built on a blockchain, and we need a blockchain that can scale up and handle the transaction throughput of the whole basically digital world. And that’s why we’ve identified Sonic and Sonic Blockchain. And so basically when you think about Ethereum, blockchain can handle between 15 to 20 transactions per second, whereas with Sonic, it can handle up to 400,000 transactions per second.
Jim Gordon
I just want to sidetrack here for a second. When you mentioned that to me earlier, you do about 400,000 transactions per second with sub-second finality. You’re talking about confidence, about wanting to say, you feel you could dominate this market, but also, why is this kind of transaction so important in terms of what it could mean for the future of finance?
Mitchell Demeter
Yeah, absolutely. So, one thing that I just caught there, I want to make sure that the listeners or viewers know that we’re not actually the company that’s building the blockchain. We’re a public company that’s focused on providing exposure to this blockchain, and it’s just a blockchain that we, like, we’ve been working closely with the team.
But back to the question, why the transaction throughput and time to finality matter, when you start to run, you know, global financial infrastructure applications on top of a blockchain, it’s really important that they can move quickly, they can move cheaply, and that the time to finality is important. Because in the financial world, when seconds matter, when there are transactions and the throughput matters, and you know, I’m buying something from you and maybe you’re selling it to somebody else, you know, you need to know that those transactions are finalized instantly and that the transactions can’t be reversed after.
Jim Gordon
And Mitchell, for our viewers, that may not be technically deep or deeply technical, I would sort of put myself in that category. Talk about Sonic’s processing speed and why you believe it matters for the future of finance.
Mitchell Demeter
Yeah, absolutely. And, so that differentiation that I was making, essentially, what we do is we kind of act as a proxy for investors that are looking to get exposure to these early and up-and-coming blockchains.
And so, you know, back to the throughput, Ethereum was the first one to kind of build out these decentralized blockchains built for decentralized finance. They’re more, they’re kind of like dial-up internet, where it’s slow, it’s antiquated, it’s expensive, and with Sonic, it’s fast. It’s basically like fibre internet.
And then as far as us as a company, rather than, you know, an investor having to go out and find a digital asset exchange that they can buy them from, buy this asset from, figure out how to secure it properly with, you know, seed words or two-factor authentication, worry about the whole custody side of it and tax reporting. With us, they can buy our stock on the Canadian or on the U.S. markets. We take care of custody, we take care of acquiring the underlying assets, we take care of earning yield on the assets, and it’s all done through the investor’s traditional brokerage account.
Jim Gordon
Let’s talk about your three-pillar, or three-step approach. One of the things I see consistent with you and Sonic is the phrase “long-term planning” and “long-term thinking” with your three-step. You’re taking a long-term approach with the “S” token and in regard to the token’s utility. So again, I think that’s important to say that we’re not looking to be here and make, you know, rich, and then we’re gone tomorrow. You’re thinking long-term, which is important.
Mitchell Demeter
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And even today, a lot of the assets that people are familiar with, you know, these have been built for a long time, right. Bitcoin, Ethereum, you know, these aren’t things that have kind of just popped up recently. And that’s the approach that we’re taking. You know, we’re long-term. Fundamentally, you know, we believe that this is the infrastructure and the blockchain that the future is going to be built on. And you know, while the market has kind of its cycles, its ebbs and flows, and we do anticipate, you know, that we are coming into a stage in the market cycle where there will be, you know, lots of upside potential in the short term. We think that long-term, this is where a lot of the world will be transacting. And so, you know, we’re here for that longer, you know, 10, 15-year timeline.
Jim Gordon
Are there people that, again, going back to the investors, we were talking again off camera about there are people out there that may feel that they have, for lack of a better phrase, missed the boat. What do you say to those investors?
Mitchell Demeter
Yeah, absolutely. I think, you know, even like the dial-up internet comparison where there’s iterations and there will continue to be iterations of blockchain and you know, a lot of the blockchains that have had massive increases over the last few years, they’re still getting a lot of attention, but every day, there’s new blockchains that are coming along online and that are innovating and that’s why we like the Sonic blockchain. You know, based on what we’ve seen, they’re faster, they’re cheaper, and they can basically they’re built for kind of this next generation. They’ve taken, you know, what’s been built in the past where people have kind of, you know, have had a lot of success investing in these ecosystems and, but they’ve improved yet. And we see a lot of growth happening on the chain.
And then, you know, for investors that want exposure to these types of assets through their traditional accounts, that’s what we’re doing’s unique here. This blockchain still trading at in around a billion-dollar market cap. Often, you know, when there’s an ETF has been created like we have for Bitcoin and for Ethereum, this is happening at a scale or a stage when the blockchain is much more established sitting, you know, in multi-hundred-billion-dollar market caps or even trillion-dollar market cap, kind of in the case of Bitcoin. You know, we’re seeing a lot of these other proxy companies pop up with other blockchains like Solana. But again, this blockchain was sitting at a hundred-billion-dollar market cap before this happened. With Sonic, right now, it’s sitting at a billion-dollar market cap. And that’s where we see, you know, we can give investors exposure to an asset like this through a traditional brokerage account. They don’t need to go and sign up for, you know, cryptocurrency exchanges to get exposure. They can call their broker, and the upside still hasn’t, you know, the upside is still yet to come.
Jim Gordon
Let’s talk growth potential versus portfolio stability.
Mitchell Demeter
Yeah, so as far as the growth potential, like I said, this is still an early stage blockchain. The growth that they’ve been experiencing has been massive. They were one of the fastest blockchains to reach over a billion dollars in value locked on their chain. It happened in 106 days, which is very quick.
They’ve rebuilt, you know, a bunch of the incentive structures for blockchains, which have been bringing in a lot of developers, which obviously bring the users. Part of what they’ve done differently is they’ve built it so that 90 per cent of the fees that a developer generates through their application actually go back to the developer. So that’s more in line with like the YouTube business model, where the content creators get to bring some of, or get a share of those fees, they’re generating from the engagement.
They’ve also built it out so that users can sign up for an account without you recording seed words. They’ll be able to log in with kind of their email or their Gmail account. So a lot more user-friendly, kind of removing the clunkiness that we’ve seen with crypto up to this point. You know, which I think is, these are needed innovations to kind of onboard the average person.
Jim Gordon
Yeah, I mean, I’m sure you’ve talked about this many times, but innovation technology advances rapidly, but also what do you say to the investors that say, “I want to dip my toe in, but I’m a little frightened by the safety and say lack of regulation”? What do you say to them?
Mitchell Demeter
Yeah, overall, the space has become much more regulated. When I got involved back in the space back in 2013, there was essentially no regulation. Nobody knew what we were talking about.
You know, more recently, I built an exchange in Canada called Netcoins, and we worked with the regulators, and even through that process, through kind of 2017, 2018, the regulators were really just starting to learn about it. Now, you know, we’ve gotten to a point where there’s a clear regulatory framework for exchanges and the way that these businesses kind of can onboard users and how things need to be handled. But even more so that the administration that’s currently in the White House in the U.S., you know, they’ve made it clear that they want to bring a lot of this blockchain innovation back home.
The other beautiful thing about a company like ours is that you’re working within the traditional finance market, which, you know, is a regulatory regime that, you know, most people are familiar with. And then we kind of go and we work with, you know, the new regulatory environment to acquire these assets, secure them in a way that meets the requirements of the traditional finance markets for, you know, best pricing and custody security, all that type of stuff, you know, fully regulated and audited. But we’re kind of merging those two worlds between, you know, this up-and-coming Web3 world and the traditional finance world.
Jim Gordon
Excellent. Okay. You guys have been busy. You’ve had some, a lot of updates on your website for investors. Some highlights. One I wanted to start with is, let’s talk with the U.S. listing. How big is that?
Mitchell Demeter
Yeah, for us, it’s massive. You know, obviously, we’re from Canada and we’re familiar with this environment here, and you know, we’ve enjoyed this, and it’s a great place to start, and we will remain a Canadian-listed issuer. But, you know, getting access to the U.S. market is massive for us. It’s a lot, obviously, a lot bigger for us, and can kind of open up a lot of opportunities for us to kind of grow our shareholder base.
Jim Gordon
That’s great news. Congratulations. Before I let you go, anything else that’s got you excited looking forward?
Mitchell Demeter
Yeah, overall, right now we’re at a kind of stage in the market cycle where Bitcoin has been moving. You know, we’re breaking all-time highs recently with Bitcoin, Ethereum is coming back up. We’re seeing a lot of growth there and this is kind of a common market cycle that we see where capital starts to kind of flow into Bitcoin and kind of the blue chips first and then add as the cycle continues, you know, more and more capital comes in to some more of these up-and-coming blockchains and we think that, you know, that part of the cycle is coming and that’s why we’ve been getting into position on Sonic right now and we’re expecting, you know, we’re expecting a lot of exciting times to come.
Jim Gordon
Where can people find out more information? What is your website?
Mitchell Demeter
Yeah, our website is sonicstrategy.io, and they can also follow us on Twitter or X @sonic_strategy. On our website, we’ve got our investor deck, and you can contact investor relations through there as well.
Jim Gordon
It has been a great pleasure talking to you, Mitchell. Thank you for the education and thank you for providing potential investors and your investors with more information on what you guys are doing. Mitchell Demeter, thanks for joining. Appreciate the time.
About SonicStrategy Inc.
SonicStrategy Inc. (CSE: SONI | OTCQB: SONIF) focused on providing institutional-grade validator operations, provided access to the Sonic ecosystem. The company operates large-scale Sonic validators and deploys capital into DeFi strategies, delivering recurring staking rewards and treasury growth while supporting the security and decentralization of the Sonic network.
To learn more about SonicStrategy Inc., visit their website here. For the latest updates, follow SonicStrategy Inc. on social media: X, LinkedIn.
