- Fantom's FTM token rose 13% in the past week, outperforming the broad market CoinDesk 20 Index.
- Investors look favorably upon the blockchain's continuing Sonic upgrade, as well as an increase in the TVL of many decentralized apps.
The Fantom blockchain's FTM is one of the best-performing non-meme tokens of the past week as the market looks favorably on the roll-out of its Sonic upgrade and increases in the total value locked (TVL) on the protocol.
FTM has gained 13% in the past seven days to about 81 cents, according to CoinDesk Indices data, while the CoinDesk 20 (CD20), a measure of the largest digital assets, is just 1.5% higher.
In the past few weeks, the Fantom Foundation has been pushing out its latest upgrade, codenamed Sonic. Currently, 25 out of the 60 nodes have completed the upgrade, according to a dashboard, and the chain will be officially upgraded once the new software hits two-thirds of the nodes.
Sonic is expected to boost transaction speeds to 2,000 transacations per second (TPS) with a 1.1-second finality. That compares with just over 2.5 TPS during the past month, on-chain data shows.
Investors might also be interested in a recent bump in the chain's TVL.
According to DeFiLlama, Fantom's TVL hit $203 million on May 16, up from $111 million two days prior, given a broad increase in TVL on various decentralized exchanges, lending apps, yield aggregators and other decentralized apps (dapps).
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Many dapps that support the Fantom chain have seen their TVL rise by 10%-20% during the last week.