More Than 250 Apps in Soneium’s Entertainment Economy as It Plans Token Issuance
Key Facts
On October 26, 2026, Soneium announced plans to build an on-chain entertainment economy focused on tokenizing intellectual property, and said it plans to issue its native $SONEIUM token. The company places the move within an ecosystem it said includes more than 250 apps spanning music, gaming, anime, film, collectibles and fan creations. Yugi Kumagai, head of the Soneium protocol, said the new phase would help creators finance their work, experiment with new forms of expression and connect with fans. He added that the goal is to expand financing for creative work and create new channels for engaging with audiences. But the company confirmed that the token has not yet been issued and that details and the date of its token generation event will be announced later.
The initiative presents intellectual property as a foundation for financing opportunities and economic participation, while leaving rights and creative control with their owners; it does not treat those rights as automatically converting into tradable assets. The vision paper says Soneium is an Ethereum Layer 2 network and describes a model that links intellectual property with capital while preserving rights holders’ core rights. The company also says on-chain licensing tools complement existing copyright frameworks rather than replace them. This means digital registration is intended to make rights information and terms of use available through a verifiable framework. Announced investment and financing opportunities remain subject to the legal and regulatory terms governing each product.
The architecture Soneium described consists of three layers: an intellectual property registry, a graph linking works and their relationships, and an execution layer for payments and licensing through smart contracts. The company said the network supports the open ERC-8432 standard for on-chain intellectual property and licensing registration. According to the company, the standard provides a machine-readable interface for verifying licensing terms and rights. The planned execution layer is designed to distribute royalties, split revenue and process licensing payments according to rules set by the intellectual property owner. This mechanism is part of the announced design, not a completed service or one already applied to all assets.
Among the products the company has introduced is IP Vault, which provides access to royalty-backed assets and entertainment investment opportunities, alongside Tokenized IP Bond securities backed by entertainment companies. Soneium said the first intellectual property token on its network is Moriusa, an intellectual property asset for a character belonging to Japan’s Super State Holdings group. These products show how the company wants to extend the network’s use beyond entertainment apps to financing structures tied to works’ rights and revenues. The announcement did not specify return terms or financial details for the products. Their inclusion in the initiative does not change the fact that each opportunity remains subject to its own terms and regulatory requirements.
In music, Soneium announced a partnership with DayOneDream to put concert royalties for K-pop artists on-chain in the form of tokenized intellectual property bonds. The artists include BTOB, LEE CHAE YEON, MEMI and 2F. The two companies announced the partnership on September 28, 2026, and said WAVIST completed a tokenized intellectual property bond cycle in May to finance music intellectual property, from issuance through final redemption and burning. This provides practical context for the new initiative, but does not mean the artists’ rights themselves will be put up for sale. The plan centers on enabling economic participation in royalties through the announced financing tools.
The move is part of a network whose mainnet Sony launched on January 14, 2025, after a public test phase, opening the production environment to the public. In its 2025 review, Soneium said the network processed 455 million transactions and recorded 5.3 million active wallets, with more than 250 decentralized apps deployed. At launch, Sony said app users would be able to pay with real crypto assets, and that in-app payments could help creators generate revenue and build communities with fans. The current initiative links this broader use to rights management, licensing and financing. The company also plans to adjust base gas fees to support network resilience and the sustainability of activity as the ecosystem grows.
The company describes the $SONEIUM token as a native token linking creators, rights holders, developers, fans and investors within the ecosystem. It has not announced a date for the token generation event, and said details about the token and event would be released at a later date. It also said its plan may change and that any future issuance would be subject to applicable laws and regulatory requirements. This places the token issuance among announced plans, rather than a completed launch. The announcement did not set a later date for details on fees or investment products.