April 2025: SODAX Refreshing DeFi with hub on Sonic

The past month brought a major shift in strategy as the ICON Network officially became SODAX and began migrating its DeFi infrastructure to its new hub chain, Sonic. This brings the unified liquidity layer to the forefront, with the Solver now live across eight chains, ready to leverage Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL) held in SODAX's Money Market. SODAX is now poised to unlock capital-efficient, intent-based execution for users and partners. With SDKs available and more integrations on the way, SODAX is laying the groundwork for scalable, next-gen DeFi infrastructure. More details below.

🧩 SODAX Solver Rollout

We’ve refactored the Solver to use the money market for liquidity, and integrated it with Sui, Arbitrum, BSC, Polygon, Stellar, Base, Solana, and Avalanche.

Work is underway to complete support for Optimism and Injective, which are expected to be finished by mid-May.

An SDK for the Solver has also been built and will be finalized by end of May, making it easy for partners to plug into this system.

💰 Money Market Launch on Sonic

SODAX’s money market contracts are live on Sonic, our new hub chain. The system has been fully configured and tested, and all spoke chains have been connected to support deposits, loans, and integrations. SDKs are now published for partners to tap directly into the money market.

💵 New bnUSD Contracts

The upgraded version of bnUSD is now live on mainnet. Testing will continue throughout May to ensure seamless performance across all integrated chains.

🔗 Relay v3 Live on All Chains

The next-gen relays (v3) are now live on all supported chains, bringing improved security, efficiency, and scalability. These relays are lighter on resources, include enhanced verification per chain, and are designed to allow partners to consume processed transaction data.

📊 New Asset Managers

New asset managers have been completed, audited, and deployed across all chains. They’ve been tested alongside the v3 relays and serve as the foundation for our capital management going forward.

⚙️ Coming Up in May

V4 AMM with dynamic fee hook — in development now, targeting mainnet deployment by end of May.
Intents v2 — introduces support for limit orders and DCA.
Final integrations for Optimism and Injective in the Solver.
Final testing and rollout of the Cross-Chain Swap SDK.
Network vote to reduce ICON’s emissions back to 3.61%, eliminating NOL and CPS allocations.

With these changes, SODAX is positioned to use its NOL more effectively than ever. If you’d like a deeper dive on what’s been built and why, check out our latest video.