Sony’s blockchain division brings the Japanese social media giant line to the web3 world, with plans to adapt some popular mini-apps to Sony’s Soeneium, the company announced on Wednesday.
Line reports are approximately 200 million active users throughout its platform, and the agreement will bring four line-based games, or “mini-apps,” to Soneium: SleepAdongchi, Farm Frens, Puffy Match, and Pocket Mob. Integration is intended to facilitate features such as rewards and purchases of games.
Soneium is mainly governed by Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint program between Sony and Singapore based on Startale Labs. SBSL thinks of collaboration as a way to “exceed borders, allowing users to experience the benefits of web3 without friction,” according to a statement shared with CoinDesk.
“The line has built a strong presence and integration of successful mini-apps in the Soneium Ecosystem is a next step towards making soneium more accessible,” said Jun Watanabe, chairman of Sony Block Solutions Labs. “We believe that this collaboration will bring relationships and adoption in ways that have previously been difficult to achieve.”
Soneium Went live In January, and at that time, the team said they expect Web2 users to bridge to the web3 space. Blockchain is a layer-2 on top of Ethereum that uses optimism In the stack Technology. It is currently ranking as the 15th largest Layer-2 network by the total amount locked, According to L2 Beat.
