According to BlockBeats, on August 23, Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint project between Japan's Sony Group and Singapore's Startale Labs, announced that it will launch the Soneium Layer 2 network on the Ethereum blockchain.

Soneium is expected to go live on a testnet in the coming days, leveraging Optimism Rollup technology, built using the OP Stack from 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 the co-founder of Astar Network.