ChainCatcher reported that Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint project between Japanese giant Sony Group and Singapore's Startale Labs, said on Friday that it will launch a new Layer 2 network called Soneium on the Ethereum blockchain. Soneium is expected to be launched on the test network in the next few days. It will use Optimism Rollup technology and be built using the OP Stack of the Optimism blockchain ecosystem.

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