Soneium: The Onchain Entertainment Economy
Executive Summary
Soneium is a blockchain purpose-built to bring entertainment onchain, connecting intellectual property with the capital that grows it. As an Ethereum Layer 2, Soneium combines decades of entertainment excellence with blockchain infrastructure to establish the Onchain Entertainment Economy, where stories, fan experiences, and creative works are recorded, connected, and expanded across the internet, and where creative work can become a lasting asset whose value is shared by the people behind it.
The mechanism is tokenized IP. A creator or studio registers a character. A game publisher licenses it, a collectibles drop features it, a fan creation reimagines it. Every time value is generated along that chain, payment settles automatically, back to the creators, IP owners, fans, and investors behind the work, with creative control and underlying rights staying where they are. By creating dedicated blockspace for entertainment and enabling every participant to share value within a unified network, Soneium establishes itself as an entertainment-native chain, where entertainment is the foundation. It provides shared infrastructure for creators, IP owners, and builders to develop onchain entertainment experiences, with tokenized IP serving as a way to participate in a creation's value.
Connecting this economy is $SONEIUM, the ecosystem-native token Soneium plans to issue to align creators, IP owners, builders, fans and investors around the value the network creates.
Backed by partnerships across the entertainment and IP landscape, Soneium aims to be the onchain entertainment economy, where creative expression and connection grow alongside new economic possibilities, and where the value IP creates flows transparently to creators, fans and investors.
Sections
1. Vision
The vision for an Onchain Entertainment Economy, where emotions bring value.
2. The Soneium Solution
Tokenized IP, Soneium Portal and the Onchain IP Architecture.
3. Technical Architecture
The Soneium chain and its core infrastructure capabilities.
4. Ecosystem and Use Cases
Entertainment use cases and the participants in the ecosystem.
5. $SONEIUM Token
The planned ecosystem-native token.
6. Key Initiatives
Soneium Portal, Tokenized IPs, ERC-8432 and Startale App.
7. Conclusion
Where stories grow into economies.
This document describes Soneium's vision and plans, which may change. No $SONEIUM token has been issued, and nothing in this document constitutes an offer, solicitation or recommendation to acquire any token, security or other financial product in any jurisdiction. Any future token issuance by the Soneium Foundation will be subject to applicable laws and regulatory requirements.