Sony will launch the Ethereum Layer 2 network Soneium

ChainCatcher news, according to Coindesk, Japanese giant Sony Group and Singapore's Startale Labs announced on Friday that they will launch a new Layer 2 network called Soneium on the Ethereum blockchain. Soneium is expected to go live on the test network in the coming days, utilizing Optimism Rollup technology and built using the OP Stack of the Optimism blockchain ecosystem.

It is reported that the CEO of Startale Labs is Sota Watanabe, who is also the head of Sony Block Solutions Labs and a co-founder of Astar Network.