SoSoValue Latest Updates: Layer 1 Network ValueChain Launched, SoDEX Mainnet Opened

The digital asset market remains active in the early morning. On Gate Exchange, SoSoValue’s ecosystem token SOSO is currently quoted at $0.5263, with a 24-hour trading volume reaching $5.3 million. Behind this number, a significant transformation concerning its future value is underway.

Recently, SoSoValue officially announced that its high-performance Layer 1 network ValueChain and the core order book trading sub-chain SoDEX have fully launched their mainnets. This is not just a product release but a key step in fulfilling its mission to “provide global audiences with crypto investment services.”

01 Core Release

On February 1, 2026, the crypto data analysis platform SoSoValue issued a major announcement that could influence its future landscape: its independently incubated ValueChain mainnet and its first core application—the on-chain order book exchange SoDEX—have officially gone live.

This launch marks SoSoValue’s transition from an information and data service provider to a comprehensive ecosystem with its own high-performance blockchain infrastructure and trading terminals.

According to the announcement, SoDEX is built on an L1 native matching architecture, supporting spot, derivatives, and some RWA asset trading natively. More importantly, the platform’s original ecosystem token SOSO has been upgraded to serve as the Gas fee payment and governance token for the ValueChain mainnet.

02 Technological Revolution

The core of this mainnet launch lies in SoSoValue’s deep reflection on current blockchain architecture limitations and technological innovation. They recognize that traditional EVM-centric architectures were initially designed prioritizing reliability and censorship resistance, not execution speed.

This means they are “fundamentally not optimized for high-throughput financial computations.” Even solutions like EVM parallelization face theoretical and practical bottlenecks.

ValueChain takes a radically different approach: application-driven chain design. Instead of trying to make emerging use cases fit existing infrastructure, it starts from application layers (such as high-frequency trading needs) and works backwards to derive necessary infrastructure innovations.

Its core is a containerized blockchain architecture:

• HostChain (Main Chain): The foundational layer generated by consensus algorithms, physically storing all sub-chain data blocks.
• GuestChains (Side Chains): Including an EVM-compatible system chain and multiple application-specific chains. The system chain manages overall state and acts as a unified account system for all application chains; each application chain handles its dedicated application’s high-performance deterministic execution.

Currently, ValueChain hosts two dedicated order book application chains powering SoDEX spot and perpetual contract trading, as well as an EVM system chain. This design enables ValueChain to deliver performance and efficiency levels that traditional general-purpose blockchains cannot match for financial applications like SoDEX.

03 Rationale for Construction

Why invest significant resources to build a chain and an exchange from scratch? The SoSoValue team provided the answer in a long-form public philosophy article. They believe that the current crypto industry has deviated from its original goal of “rebuilding trust,” turning into a pure liquidity casino.

Centralized exchanges inherently face trust issues, while early DeFi protocols (especially AMMs) suffer from low capital efficiency, poor user experience, and performance limitations.

The birth of SoDEX is a natural extension of SoSoValue’s product logic. Their initial tool, SoSoValue Terminal, addressed information asymmetry and helped users filter noise. Later, the SSI index protocol aimed to solve asset allocation issues.

The goal of SoDEX is to solve the ultimate “trade execution” pain point—building a transparent, fair, user-centric on-chain financial infrastructure that restores the essence of trading as verifiable and autonomous on the blockchain.

04 Ecosystem Incentives and Token Value

With the mainnet launch, SoSoValue also introduced the Public Launch ecosystem incentive plan, injecting 150 million SOSO tokens into its SoPoints points system to incentivize early ecosystem participants and builders.

Post-upgrade, the role of the SOSO token shifts from a platform utility token to the “blood” of the ValueChain mainnet. This means:

• Functionality upgrade: All operations on ValueChain and its applications (like SoDEX) will require SOSO to pay Gas fees.
• Governance rights: Holders will be able to participate in decentralized governance of the future development of ValueChain and SoDEX.
• Value capture: The token is directly linked to the infrastructure usage and economic activity of the entire ecosystem.

According to forecast data from Gate, the market remains cautiously optimistic about SOSO’s long-term prospects. The average price in 2026 is expected to be around $0.527, rising to an estimated $0.8412 by 2031. The success of the mainnet will be a key variable determining whether these predictions materialize.

05 Market Deployment

The full launch of SoDEX comes at a time of intense competition among decentralized exchanges. SoDEX’s choice of an on-chain order book directly challenges the most performance-demanding trading models.

Its advantage lies in integrating trading matching, settlement, and account management into the protocol layer, aiming to reduce friction for traders who require speed and on-chain verifiability.

Industry analysts believe that the emergence of high-performance order book DEXs like SoDEX is a crucial step in attracting professional traders and institutions to DeFi. It indicates that by offering improved speed and scalability through on-chain execution solutions, DeFi is attempting to expand its use cases from retail trading to broader markets.

For SoSoValue, the success of SoDEX will validate its full-stack service capability from data analysis to trade execution. As a value carrier connecting the entire ecosystem, the future performance of SOSO will be closely tied to the adoption depth of the ValueChain network, trading activity on SoDEX, and the overall ecosystem prosperity.

Future Outlook

In the coming weeks, market focus will be on whether SoDEX can attract and retain genuine trading volume and liquidity. Meanwhile, the 150 million SOSO ecosystem incentives, valued at over $78.9 million (based on current prices), will be gradually released, aiming to ignite the first community-driven co-creation fire on this cold, code-based foundation.

When trading occurs transparently on a chain born for finance, and asset control truly returns to users, the vision of SoSoValue—from information equality to asset autonomy—may just be beginning to unfold.