Sony’s Soneium blockchain teams up with Animoca Brands

Animoca Brands partnered with Sony’s Soneium blockchain to develop Moca Network’s identity layer and launch San FranTokyo’s anime initiatives on Soneium.

The partnership means Animoca Brands will ally with Soneium, an Ethereum Layer 2 open blockchain developed by Sony and powered by Optimism’s Superchain technology.

Through this partnership Moca Network, Animoca Brands’ flagship digital identity infrastructure platform for the open internet, will create a premier identity layer on the Soneium blockchain starting with Anime ID, a decentralized identifier (DID) and reputation layer spearheaded by San FranTokyo, a core contributor to Anime Foundation, to enhance user engagement and enable partners on Soneium to issue and verify data credentials.

Moca Network’s Account, Identity, and Reputation SDK (AIR SDK) will be integrated into Soneium blockchain, enabling users to maintain embedded accounts, unique identities, and credentials as they explore various dApps on Soneium. San FranTokyo’s Anime ID will ...