Vitalik Buterin shared his thoughts on Soneium, a layer 2 network built by Sony on top of Ethereum ETH $3,337.59. This has caused controversy due to the handling of certain transactions.
Users have reported issues with two meme coins, Aibo and Toro, and transactions appear to be blocked.
The tokens, which were inspired by Sony’s robot dog and the PlayStation mascot, had smart contracts flagged as “banned,” according to blockchain discovery firm BlockScout.
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Soniam explained that this restriction is part of measures to protect intellectual property. The platform’s team clarified in a post to X that these are temporary controls for certain contracts.
Layer 2 solutions like Soneium increase transaction speed and reduce costs by bundling multiple transactions together and processing them more efficiently. These networks use sequencers to manage transaction orders before sending them to the main Ethereum network.
In Soneium’s case, its centralized sequencer allows the network to restrict certain transactions, but avoids complete censorship.
Buterin noted that this design choice creates what he describes as a “huge speed bump.” “Companies can make very granular choices about how much control they retain or give to their users,” he wrote in a Jan. 15 post on Whatever you choose, those are the rules.”
Soneium acknowledged that its restrictions apply only to public endpoints, meaning users can access the blockchain through alternative means.
Soneium’s design relies on Optimism’s OP $1.85 OP Stack. It is an open source framework that supports several other layer 2 solutions, including Coinbase $4.11B’s Base and Kraken’s Ink.
On January 5, Buterin published a blog post proposing a “soft pause” in global computing power. What is his purpose? Please read the full text.
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