The blockchain platform Soneium has been formally launched by Sony Block Solutions Labs, a partnership between Sony Group and Web3 infrastructure provider Startale.
Sony’s Web3 platform, Soneium, is operational, with more than 47 million transactions and 15 million active wallets. However, the centralization of the platform is called into doubt by the crypto community’s rug-pull claims and asset-freezing worries.
Blockchain Soneium Enters Mainnet The construction of Soneium is followed by a successful testnet phase, during which the platform saw over 47 million transactions and 15 million active wallets.
According to Sony, his ultimate objective is to create an open internet that cuts across barriers by bridging cultural divides and bringing everyone on board.
Soneium wants to provide useful applications in the fields of gaming, entertainment, and finance.
Sota Watanabe, director of Sony Block Solutions Labs, said, “Our goal with Soneium is straightforward but ambitious: to create an open internet where creativity flows freely and fairly and to enable the next generation of users to embrace web3.”
The Soneium blockchain now contains 6.8 million blocks with an average block time of two seconds, according statistics from Blockscout. There were 7.3 million contracts on the marketplace overall.
In August 2024, Sony initially revealed plans to construct “Soneium,” a public blockchain. Following the announcement, the team established the “Soneium Minato” testnet.
On Soneium Minato, developers have already created a vast array of apps, including 32 projects chosen from over 1,700 proposals submitted to the “Soneium Spark” incubation program. Numerous more applications have been supplied by independent developers; they include a variety of social, financial, gaming, entertainment, and NFT apps.
Soneium has already received some negative feedback from the cryptocurrency world on the first day of its introduction. Citing their terms of service, a number of X users have noted that Soneium has the ability to “freeze” whatever assets they want.
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