🚀 Sonic Price Surge Ahead: AI Platform ’Spark’ Launch Fuels S Token Breakout

Sonic Labs just dropped a catalyst that could send shockwaves through DeFi—and traders are scrambling to front-run the move.

The AI Play: Their newly announced 'Spark' platform promises to inject machine learning into on-chain analytics, targeting the holy grail of crypto: alpha generation. No vague roadmap here—developers claim a Q3 2025 mainnet release.

Chart Alert: The S token ripped through resistance levels like a hot knife through butter this morning. Funny how 'coincidental' these breakouts always align with PR announcements—almost like someone's playing the retail crowd like a fiddle.

Bottom Line: Whether Spark delivers or joins the graveyard of overhyped crypto AI projects, one thing's certain: volatility is back on the menu.

Sonic Labs announces AI platform Spark

Sonic Labs has announced plans to launch Spark, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) development platform that enables anyone to build and deploy full-stack Web3 applications without requiring expertise in coding languages. 

Users will be able to transform their innovative ideas into functional smart contracts. From Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols, non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces, to other decentralized applications (dApps), Spark will bring them into existence using natural language.

Spark is powered by Google’s Gemini Large Language Model (LLM), ensuring that users have access to “state-of-the-art reasoning, code generation, and real-time debugging.”

Sonic Labs said that “Spark expands the developer pool, unlocks rapid on-chain experimentation, captures billions in free AI research and development (R&D), and places Sonic at the leading edge of both blockchain and AI.”

Spark is currently in development, with early access expected to start soon. 

Sonic price reacted to the news, extending the uptrend to an intraday high of $0.39. However, it has declined, trading at around $0.37 at the time of writing.

Technical outlook: Can Sonic extend the uptrend?

Sonic price holds above support provided by the 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at $0.36 and the dotted descending trendline on the daily chart below. 

A buy signal triggered on Tuesday by the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator reinforces the bullish grip. If the blue MACD line remains above the red signal line and the green histograms continue to expand above the zero line, the path of least resistance will hold upward, encouraging traders to seek exposure.

Traders will look out for Sonic’s price potential to break above the 100-day EMA resistance at $0.41 to ascertain the uptrend’s strength before increasing buying pressure. Key milestones beyond this level include the supply zone at $0.50, which was tested as support in early May, and the hurdle at $0.63, also tested in May but as resistance.

S/USDT daily chart

On the contrary, the downward-looking Relative Strength Index (RSI) at 58 indicates that buying pressure is fading, increasing the likelihood of Sonic's price falling below the 50-day EMA support at $0.36. If selling pressure overwhelms the bulls, the correction could accelerate toward the June 22 support at $0.24.

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