Soneium is an L2 network launched by Sony Block Solutions Labs, a blockchain division of Sony. It is a genuine Sony Chain. Today, its mainnet was officially launched, but unexpectedly, this Web2 giant locked out a bunch of degens at the beginning, making Web3 players defend their rights as soon as they went online...
Since it is the Sony Chain, degens are excited to start with a Sony-themed meme:
$Toro, the Doro cat, is a game character created by Sony Computer Entertainment. It first appeared in July 1999 as a video game character for the PocketStation micro-game console produced by the same company, and also became a mascot representing Sony. The peak market value of $Toro was close to $1.2 million.
$aibo, the dog-shaped household robot AIBO released by Sony in 2017, is named after Artificial Intelligence Robot. As the first meme dog on the Sony Chain, the market value of this dog peaked at nearly $3 million.
At about 12 noon, everyone found that there was no way to complete the swap of these two coins on DYORSwap. When accessing the block browser of Sony Chain, the contracts of these two coins showed Forbidden status.
Now, there are still about 26 ETH in the $Toro and $aibo pools. Coupled with the price drop, it is obvious that Sony Chain caused degens to suffer heavy losses on the first day of its launch.
@PopPunkOnChain said that the Sony Chain officials seemed to have banned the writing of these two tokens at the sequencer level.
At about 4:40 in the afternoon, the official Twitter account of Sony Chain finally responded, saying that as a project owner, it is committed to protecting the IP ownership of creators on the chain.
In their Discord channel, the official Mod stated that as long as the two tokens undergo rectification, they can still be revived, such as removing all infringing content on the logo and token website.
It can be regarded as witnessing history... This may be the first time in history that a chain has directly ordered rectification of assets on the chain. As for the rectification order, as of now, the two banned tokens have expressed on Twitter that they will actively cooperate and strive to restore it as soon as possible.
Strangely enough, there were still several transactions of these two tokens on the chain, causing the price of the tokens to continue to fall. At present, the official Sony Chain has not responded to the situation.
There are also many voices questioning the scale of token bans, for example, $PS 2 is still alive and well.
However, this kind of sudden closure obviously scares the degens and goes against the decentralized spirit in the hearts of the degens.
