Vitalik Buterin Says Sony's Controversial L2 Shows Why Ethereum Is Great for Business

Sony's Ethereum scaling network Soneium faced pushback from some users soon after launch, but Vitalik Buterin sees nuance in the noise.

By Andrés Mariani.

$ETH $Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin weighed in Wednesday on the controversy surrounding Soneium, a Sony-launched Ethereum layer-2 scaling network that left some meme coin traders in the lurch this week while trying to suppress certain transactions.

“Businesses can make very fine-grained choices around how much control they keep vs. give to users,” Buterin wrote in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter). “But whatever rules they choose, that's what the rules are.”

Not long after Soneium officially launched, some users griped within Soneium’s Discord that they were unable to transact in two nascent meme coins called Aibo and Toro, per DL News.

The @Soneium situation is a good live demonstration of how launching an ethereum L2 is great for businesses *and* users.

Businesses can make very fine-grained choices around how much control they keep vs give to users.

But whatever rules they choose, that's what the rules are.…https://t.co/jmaCRDsyF0