Sonic Labs Launches AI-Powered Web3 Builder
Sonic Labs has launched Spawn, an AI platform designed to enable the creation of Web3 applications from natural language prompts. Previewed at ETHDenver 2026, the tool aims to eliminate the need for smart contract coding, allowing users to build and deploy decentralized apps from a single prompt. The company states this will lower the barrier to entry for Web3 development.
- The technology behind Spawn is powered by Google's Gemini, which handles the platform's reasoning, code generation, and real-time debugging capabilities. - Spawn applications are deployed directly to Sonic's native blockchain, a high-performance EVM-compatible network that the company claims can handle up to 400,000 transactions per second with sub-second finality. - The platform includes an integrated AI agent named "Spawny" that enables users to modify smart contracts, frontends, and configurations through a conversational chat interface. - A key feature is a built-in security logic that scores applications for risk and flags builds it deems unsafe before deployment. - Sonic Labs, the company behind Spawn, was formerly known as Fantom and is led by CEO Michael Kong. - In May 2025, Sonic Labs announced it had secured $10 million in funding from Galaxy to strengthen its position in the U.S. market and support its DeFi ecosystem. - The company's community recently approved a proposal to fund expansion into U.S. capital markets, with plans to partner with a "top-tier" provider to launch a regulated ETF tracking its native S token. - The competitive landscape for AI-driven Web3 development includes platforms like Thirdweb AI, which focuses on building AI agents that interact with blockchains, and Dreamspace, which converts natural language into Solidity code using ZK-proofs.
