Soneium adopts OP Enterprise to support tokenized IP plans

Soneium has adopted OP Enterprise’s fully managed service to support its tokenized intellectual property plans, with OP Labs providing chain operations under a 99.9% monthly uptime target. Summary OP Labs will support Soneium’s sequencer, nodes, monitoring, upgrades, and incident response. The agreement includes a 99.9% monthly uptime target and round-the-clock on-call incident support. Soneium retains chain ownership and control over its roadmap, technology and product decisions. The network’s entertainment work already includes licensed anime collectibles and consumer-facing blockchain applications. Soneium announced the agreement in a Sept. 30 statement, saying it had joined OP Enterprise’s fully managed tier while keeping its own engineers involved in developing the chain. The announcement took place at Soneium’s event during Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul, South Korea. Under the arrangement, OP Labs, the core development team behind Optimism and the OP Stack, will support the infrastructure used to operate Soneium. According to the statement, the service covers the sequencer, node infrastructure, monitoring, software upgrades, and incident response, with the operating commitments set out in a service-level agreement. Soneium keeps product control while OP Labs supports operations With OP Labs supporting chain operations, Soneium’s engineering team will continue working on the network alongside the service provider, the announcement said. Soneium will retain ownership of the chain and authority over its roadmap and product decisions. The agreement includes a monthly uptime target of 99.9%, backed by 24/7 on-call incident response, according to the statement. The uptime figure is a contractual target for the service rather than a reported measure of the network’s past performance. You might also like: Soneium and DayOneDream partner to tokenize K-pop IP For Soneium’s protocol team, the arrangement is intended to support development of its entertainment products, beginning with tokenized intellectual property, or IP. “We keep shaping Soneium’s technology ourselves. OP Enterprise’s support on chain operations helps us move faster on Onchain Entertainment, starting with Tokenized IP.” Yuji Kumagai, head of Soneium Protocol From the infrastructure provider’s side, OP Labs CEO Jing Wang described the service as support for a team already building on its technology. In the announcement, Wang said OP Enterprise would keep operations “running smoothly” so Soneium’s developers could continue delivering products. According to OP Labs’ description of the offering, OP Enterprise provides deployment, operations and dedicated support for organizations using the OP Stack. Soneium already runs on that framework, the statement said. Tokenized IP builds on earlier licensed anime collectibles Soneium’s entertainment focus has already produced blockchain collectibles tied to licensed Japanese content.