Stacy Pereira
Soneium, an Ethereum Layer-2 protocol that is backed by the Sony Group Corporation, has announced its new incubator programme called Soneium For All to help blockchain developers. Soneium will partner with Astar Network and Startale Cloud Services to provide the grant funding, infrastructure support, and technical resources, which will aid consumer & gaming dApps on Soneium.
Incubation partners
The idea of the programme is to empower creators worldwide through on-chain technology and create an open internet that transcends boundaries, the company said in its blog post dated June 9. Once the applicants are selected, the programme wants to quickly go to market by deploying prototypes to users by Q3 2025.
Astar is joining Soneium For All with a $30K grant pool to support and accelerate the adoption of the ASTR on Soneium. To be eligible for Astar’s grant, projects must integrate ASTR into their application or product as a utility or payment token. Whereas Startale Cloud Service will provide Complimentary access to its freemium plan. This will also include the Private RPC Endpoint access up to 300M compute units and Startale Account Abstraction on Soneium Minato, for all participating projects.
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Programme timeline
According to the blog post, applicants will have to send in their demos by the end of June, while winners will be announced late July or early August 2025. The accelerator hopes that projects will be ready to launch from August 2025 onwards. The chosen cohort will get access to the blockchain’s 7 million-user ecosystem, which already has over 100 live dApps on Soneium.
Sony Block Solutions Labs was founded by Sony Group Corporation and Startale Group with an aim to develop Web 3 infrastructure. As cryptocurrency becomes more popular, well-known tech companies like Apple, Uber, and now SONY are starting to look at how they can use it in their businesses going forward.
