PANews reported on October 23 that Sonic Labs CTO Andre Cronje posted on the X platform that the cost of running a Layer 2 or application chain is about $13.2 million, including prepaid and annual expenses such as oracles, stablecoins, RPC services, governance, etc. Cronje also listed the cost centers of the Sonic project in the past year, totaling $35.6 million, mainly including R&D, ecosystem construction, legal and compliance expenses. He pointed out that these costs do not include exchange listing fees, indicating that no related operations have been carried out this year.