Sony-Backed Soneium Unveils SONEIUM Token Across 250+ Entertainment Apps

Native SONEIUM Token Announced

Soneium, the Ethereum layer 2 network built at the center of Sony Group's Web3 strategy, said on Monday it will introduce a native ecosystem token named SONEIUM, its most explicit move yet toward an entertainment economy that lives on-chain. The project's announcement on X sets out a plan to connect entertainment intellectual property, the creators and studios behind it, and the fans, developers and investors who follow it. The network already hosts more than 250 applications across gaming, music, anime, film and collectibles, so the token arrives on top of an existing activity base rather than a blank slate.

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The core of the plan is what Soneium calls Tokenized IP, a framework for representing creative works and their commercial value on the blockchain. Rights holders would issue tokens tied to an individual artist, studio or title. Structured as limited editions, these work much like a fan token, marking membership in a property's community; structured as fungible assets, they circulate inside a single project's economy. Automated revenue sharing is on the roadmap, with distributions executed against predefined rules, letting communities back commercial properties without buying equity. Yuji Kumagai, head of Soneium Protocol, put the launch in creator-first terms: “Entertainment starts with creators. Today, Soneium enters a new stage built to stand behind them.” He added that the platform should let creators “fund their next work at a new scale” while finding fresh ways to reach audiences.

The first project under the initiative is Moriusa, a character IP owned by Tokyo-based entertainment group Super State Holdings. Tokenized participation is meant to fund the character's expansion into merchandise, animated shorts and licensing deals, with fans contributing capital directly rather than through intermediaries. Since no token has been issued, there is nothing to trade yet; the announcement describes purpose and design, not price or float.

IP Vault, IP Bond and Soneium Portal

Beyond single-title tokens, the roadmap carries two structured investment products. IP Vault would give holders indirect access to entertainment investments such as music catalog funds, while IP Bond involves bonds backed by entertainment businesses themselves. Both funnel through a dedicated interface called Soneium Portal, which opens with primary sales before adding fan participation features and royalty distribution. Soneium has not said how allocations or eligibility will be handled, so demand around those early sales, the usual FOMO dynamic, remains a design question rather than a measured one.

The K-pop leg is already underway. Soneium and South Korean IP company DayOneDream agreed in September to move concert-related royalties onto the network through DayOneDream's WAVIST platform. WAVIST completed the issuance, redemption and burning of a tokenized IP bond in May, though final terms and investor eligibility rules for future offerings stay undisclosed.

Underneath sits a three-part technical stack the company calls Onchain IP Architecture. An IP Registry records creative works and their ownership; an IP Graph tracks links between originals, derivative works and collaborations; an IP Execution Layer runs licensing payments and revenue splits through smart contracts under rules the rights holders set. Soneium also intends to support ERC-8432, a proposed Ethereum standard that lets applications and autonomous AI agents read licensing terms and verify agreements across platforms, aimed at governing creative work as AI-assisted content spreads.

The parent network has been consolidating quietly. Sony Group (SONY) put $13 million into Startale Group through the Sony Innovation Fund in January, and the chain has processed more than 500 million transactions since its mainnet launch in January 2025. In September, Soneium adopted OP Labs' OP Enterprise services for its sequencer and incident response, carrying a 99.9% monthly uptime target, while Startale is integrating Sunnyside Labs' Privacy Boost for private transfers.

The Undisclosed Tokenomics

Our reading of the announcement is that its load-bearing line is a negative one: the official record states that no token has been issued and gives no supply, distribution schedule, launch date or token generation event, which makes any market valuation of SONEIUM premature. The durable part of the news is the licensing stack. A Registry-Graph-Execution design, paired with ERC-8432, positions Soneium to meter rights where blockchain and AI increasingly overlap, and that is where recurring revenue would actually accrue. Whether the token matures into a real fan economy depends on Portal primary sales uptake rather than bull market sentiment, and nothing in the announcement ties it to Sony's gaming franchises; the PlayStation speculation circulating around the news has no confirmation behind it.