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When you get a “GM” from Sota Watanabe, it doesn’t mean “good morning.” Watanabe, CEO at Startale Labs and founder of Astar Network, instead wants it to mean “go mainstream.” That’s the slogan — and ambition — of Sony Block Solutions Labs in launching Soneium, a joint venture with Watanabe’s company. The network’s “Minato” public testnet is set to go live following the WebX 2024 conference on Wednesday in Japan. In positioning Soneium as a cornerstone in the push for mainstream Web3 adoption, Watanabe repeated the common refrain that this iteration of blockchain technology will onboard the next billion users into crypto. “What the industry does not have is a distribution channel,” Watanabe told Blockworks. “We would like to develop a blockchain based on real customer feedback, so we are making the chain not only for tech people but also for general people who are going to use blockchain in the coming 10 years.” Soneium will be Startale’s third blockchain deployment. It follows the original Astar Network layer-1, a Polkadot parachain and the Ethereum layer-2 Astar zkEVM (based on the Polygon CDK). Read more: Toyota tests developer skills on popular Japanese blockchain However, with the launch of Soneium, Astar will “evolve” once again to use the new optimistic rollup based on the OP Stack. The decision partly reflects the conclusion of Sony’s engineers that the OP Stack is a more “proven” solution, particularly in the wake of blockchain reorganizations — or “reorgs” — encountered by Astar, Watanabe said. Polygon’s own zkEVM has experienced similar problems. OP Mainnet has had the odd stability issue too. For most of its existence it has conspicuously lacked permissionless fault proofs, recently reverting its latest attempt. The network is expected to re-enable the feature in about two weeks, according to L2Beat. Until a working fault…

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