Sony’s Layer-2 Blockchain Soneium Unveils Gaming Incubator
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By Ian Allison|Edited by Sheldon Reback
Jun 9, 2025, 8:02 a.m.
- Soneium For All is created in partnership with Astar Network and Startale Cloud Services, with investment support from Sony Innovation Fund.
- The program is set to open its doors in the third quarter.
Soneium, the Ethereum overlay blockchain linked to 78-year-old Japanese electronics giant Sony, unveiled a new incubator program, Soneium For All, to accelerate consumer and gaming applications within its 7 million-user blockchain ecosystem.
As crypto continues its march into the mainstream, traditional technology companies, the Apple’s and Ubers of this world, are looking to the tech to commercialize their future operations.
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Sony Block Solutions Labs (SBSL), the builder of Soneium, used the Optimism OP stack, a fast and cheap layer linked to Ethereum for “bridging the gap between Web2 and Web3 audiences, especially for the creators, fans and community,” SBSL said.
The new accelerator, which plans to open its doors in the third quarter, was created in partnership with Astar Network and Startale Cloud Services, with investment support from Sony Innovation Fund, according to a press release on Monday.
“This initiative reflects our vision to empower creators globally through blockchain technology,” said Ryohei Suzuki, Director of Sony Block Solutions Labs in a statement. “By lowering the barriers to entry for developers and helping them reach users faster, Soneium For All brings us closer to a more open, creator-powered internet.”
Ian Allison is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, focused on institutional and enterprise adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Prior to that, he covered fintech for the International Business Times in London and Newsweek online. He won the State Street Data and Innovation journalist of the year award in 2017, and was runner up the following year. He also earned CoinDesk an honourable mention in the 2020 SABEW Best in Business awards. His November 2022 FTX scoop, which brought down the exchange and its boss Sam Bankman-Fried, won a Polk award, Loeb award and New York Press Club award. Ian graduated from the University of Edinburgh. He holds ETH.
