On October 26, 2026, Soneium announced a plan to turn its network into an onchain entertainment economy, with a tokenized intellectual property (IP) model and the intention to issue a native ecosystem token, $SONEIUM. The key point, which needs to be clear from the start, is the nature of the announcement: it is a plan, not a launch. No token has been issued so far, and Soneium has not disclosed a date for the token generation event, total supply or tokenomics — details the company says will be announced later.
What tokenized IP means
Under Soneium's proposal, the future economic value of a creative work can be represented onchain, opening an alternative form of funding and participation for creators, studios and fans. The model has three main forms. IP Tokens can represent a creator, a studio or a specific title, as a fan-engagement collectible or as a fungible token circulating within an IP's economy. IP Vaults give indirect access to entertainment investment opportunities, such as music catalog funds. Tokenized IP Bonds are products backed by entertainment businesses.
The first IP Token announced is Moriusa, a character from Super State Holdings, a Tokyo-based entertainment group. According to Soneium, the project could extend into physical merchandise, animated short series and other licensing opportunities. In parallel, the partnership with K-pop company DayOneDream is set to bring royalties from the concert business of established artists into tokenized bonds — coverage of the announcement names BTOB and Lee Chae-yeon among the artists involved in this arm of the initiative.
Portal, architecture and the token's role
The entry point to this ecosystem is the Soneium Portal, presented as the official platform for discovering and participating in tokenized IP projects, starting with primary sales and expanding into fan participation and royalty distribution. The Startale App works as a super app for accessing the ecosystem.
Behind it, Soneium describes a three-layer architecture: an IP registry, a graph connecting works, derivatives and collaborations, and an execution layer for royalties, licences and revenue distribution under programmable rules. The company also says it will support ERC-8432, a proposed open standard for onchain IP asset and licence registries, with machine-readable terms that humans and AI agents could query and settle.
In this design, $SONEIUM would act as the economic layer connecting creators, IP owners, developers, fans and investors — not as a standalone product. Soneium notes that the announced plans may change and that any future issuance would be subject to applicable laws and regulatory requirements, an important caveat for anyone following the topic without mistaking an announcement for an available asset.
Background: what Soneium is
Soneium is an Ethereum layer-2 network developed by Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint venture between Sony Group and Startale. Its mainnet went live on January 14, 2025, built on the OP Stack, and the network says it now hosts more than 250 applications across music, games, anime, film, collectibles and fan creations. Until now, it operated as general-purpose infrastructure, without its own token — which makes the shift announced on October 26 a change of positioning, not just a new product.
“Entertainment starts with creators,” said Yuji Kumagai, head of Soneium Protocol, in the release. “Today, Soneium enters a new stage built to stand behind them.” The line sums up the bet: using tokenization to fund works and split revenue programmatically, at a time when AI-assisted creation raises new questions about licensing, attribution and creator pay.
The final distinction matters: the announcement confirms the direction and the first projects, but it does not confirm any token's price, supply, date or return. Interested readers should follow Soneium's official channels before drawing any practical conclusion — and should not treat the plan as an available investment.
Sources: Soneium's official release on Chainwire, Crypto Times and Soneium's official post on X.
Image credit: Soneium's official logo, via Soneium's brand kit.
Transparency: this text was produced with AI assistance and checked against public sources on the internet, including Soneium's official announcement and independent coverage of the topic. Consult the original sources to confirm the details.
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