Sony-Backed Soneium Plans $SONEIUM Token to Power an Onchain Entertainment Economy

On October 26, 2026, Soneium — the Ethereum layer-2 network operated by Sony Block Solutions Labs, the joint venture between Sony Group and Startale — published a plan to issue $SONEIUM, a native ecosystem token, and to reposition the chain around what it calls an “onchain entertainment economy.” The announcement, published on the project’s official blog , is a statement of intent rather than a launch: no token has been issued, no supply or tokenomics were disclosed, and the team said further details on a token generation event would come “at a later date.” The move gives a chain that…