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Andre Cronje critiques appchains: High costs and liquidity challenges

While Cronje highlights concerns about L2 appchains, others argue that emerging solutions can address these challenges.

Andre Cronje, the co-founder of Sonic Labs, has critiqued layer-2 (L2) appchains, claiming they are impractical for builders. 

In an Oct. 13 X post, Cronje raised concerns about high infrastructure costs, fragmented liquidity and insufficient support for developers. He suggested these challenges hinder the widespread adoption of appchains.

Appchains are customized blockchains designed to meet the specific needs of decentralized applications (DApps) or a particular set of functions.

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