{"id":17327,"date":"2025-03-12T06:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T06:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=17327"},"modified":"2025-03-12T06:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T06:01:54","slug":"japanese-tech-giants-sony-and-line-join-forces-in-blockchain-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=17327","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Tech Giants Sony and LINE Join Forces in Blockchain Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sony&#8217;s blockchain division is bringing Japanese social media giant LINE into the web3 world, with plans to adapt several popular mini-apps onto Sony&#8217;s Soeneium network, the company announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>LINE reports approximately 200 million active users across its platform, and the agreement will bring four LINE-based games, or &#8220;mini-apps,&#8221; to Soneium: Sleepagotchi, Farm Frens, Puffy Match, and Pocket Mob. The integration is meant to facilitate features like in-game rewards and purchases.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Soneium is mainly managed by Sony Block Solutions Labs, a joint program between Sony and Singapore-based Startale Labs. SBSL envisions the partnership as a way to &#8220;transcend boundaries, allowing users to experience the benefits of web3 without friction,&#8221; according to a statement shared with CoinDesk.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LINE has built a strong presence and integrating successful mini-apps into the Soneium ecosystem is a next step toward making Soneium more accessible,&#8221; said Jun Watanabe, chairman of Sony Block Solutions Labs. &#8220;We believe this collaboration will drive engagement and adoption in ways that were previously difficult to achieve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Soneium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/01\/13\/sony-s-layer-2-blockchain-soneium-goes-live\" target=\"_blank\">went live<\/a> in January, and at the time, the team said that they hoped to bridge web2 users into the web3 space. The blockchain is a layer-2 on top of Ethereum that uses Optimism\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2023\/08\/23\/coinbases-chosen-blockchain-brand-sees-zero-threat-from-zero-knowledge\" target=\"_blank\">OP Stack<\/a> technology. It currently ranks as the 15th largest layer-2 network by total value locked, <a href=\"https:\/\/l2beat.com\/scaling\/summary\" target=\"_blank\">according to L2 Beat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2025\/01\/13\/sony-s-layer-2-blockchain-soneium-goes-live\" target=\"_blank\">Sony\u2019s Layer-2 Blockchain &#8216;Soneium&#8217; Goes Live<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s blockchain division is bringing Japanese social media giant LINE into the web3 world, with plans to adapt several popular mini-apps onto Sony&#8217;s Soeneium network, the company announced Wednesday. LINE reports approximately 200 million active users across its platform, and the agreement will bring four LINE-based games, or &#8220;mini-apps,&#8221; to Soneium: Sleepagotchi, Farm Frens, Puffy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-17327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}