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June 12, 2025 – Hey Anon, a groundbreaking on-chain AI DeFi protocol, today announced a significant investment of 400,000 S tokens from the Sonic Innovator Fund. This strategic backing, provided by Sonic Labs, underscores a shared vision to redefine user interaction with decentralized finance by integrating advanced AI capabilities directly onto the high-performance Sonic EVM blockchain.
The DeFi landscape, while innovative, often presents a steep learning curve and fragmented workflows for users. Managing complex operations like bridging, swapping, staking, and borrowing across various protocols, alongside staying informed about rapidly evolving project updates and market sentiment, can be overwhelming. Hey Anon is built to address this challenge head-on.
Hey Anon: The Intelligent Assistant for Seamless DeFi Interactions
Hey Anon is an AI-powered DeFi assistant designed to simplify these intricate processes. By combining conversational AI with real-time data aggregation, it enables users to manage their DeFi operations and gain actionable insights through natural language prompts. The platform's core functionalities include:
- Automated DeFi Actions: Execute complex tasks such as bridging, swapping, staking, and borrowing across supported protocols (including AAVE, Jito, Marinade, GMX, Spark, CowSwap, Sky, and more) with simple commands.
- Real-Time Insights: Aggregate and analyze data from diverse sources like Twitter, Telegram, Discord, GitHub, and Gitbook, providing near real-time updates on project activity, price changes, community sentiment, and development progress.
- Data Fusion: Combine multiple data points to form a comprehensive and holistic understanding of any protocol or trend, saving users invaluable time and effort.
- AI-Assisted Trading: Leverages Sonic's speed to enable real-time execution and AI-assisted trading through an intuitive HUD, transforming fragmented workflows into simple conversations.
"Sonic is the DeFi chain. Hey Anon brings DeFAI (DeFi + AI) to Sonic, redefining the user experience of interacting with on-chain protocols via natural language," said Daniele Sesta, Founder of Hey Anon. "The speed of Sonic makes this integration feel like magic. HUD completes the magical UX by bringing an AI trading assistant to your on-chain trading, revolutionizing what can be done with speed of execution and real-time intelligence."
A Strategic Investment for the Future of Sonic
The investment from the Sonic Innovator Fund reflects Sonic Labs' broader strategy to identify and back high-potential teams that align with Sonic’s long-term vision for a fast, scalable, and monetized decentralized infrastructure. The Sonic Innovator Fund, which provides up to 200,000,000 S from the Sonic Foundation treasury, is dedicated to supporting early-stage builders, essential infrastructure, and novel use cases that strengthen Sonic’s position as a high-performance, next-generation EVM platform.
"We don’t bet on being trendy. We back conviction. Dani is building like the future depends on it, and that’s exactly who we look out for," commented Sam Harcourt, Business Development Lead, Sonic Labs.
This collaboration will empower Hey Anon to further develop its capabilities, expand its integration across the Sonic ecosystem, and solidify its position as a foundational primitive for AI-driven DeFi. By turning fragmented DeFi workflows into simple conversations, Hey Anon removes friction and equips users with the clarity and tools needed to act swiftly and intelligently in the dynamic world of decentralized finance.
About Hey Anon:
Hey Anon is an on-chain AI-powered DeFi assistant designed to simplify DeFi interactions and aggregate essential project-related information. By combining conversational AI with real-time data aggregation, Hey Anon enables users to manage DeFi operations, stay informed about project updates, and analyze trends across various platforms and protocols within the Sonic ecosystem.
About Sonic Innovator Fund / Sonic Labs:
The Sonic Innovator Fund, backed by Sonic Labs and the Sonic Foundation, is a dedicated initiative to support and accelerate the development of high-impact primitives, infrastructure, and tools within the Sonic ecosystem. It aims to foster innovation and drive real-world usage on Sonic's high-performance, next-generation EVM platform.
Compiled by CMO Intern team
