The Good Tech Companies - Animoca Brands Partners With Soneium To Develop Moca Network's Identity Layer
Episode Date: March 27, 2025This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/animoca-brands-partners-with-soneium-to-develop-moca-networks-identity-layer. Through this p...artnership Moca Network, Animoca Brands’ flagship digital identity infrastructure platform for Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #animocabrands, #chainwire, #press-release, #blockchain-development, #optimistic-rollup, #decentralized-identity, #good-company, and more. This story was written by: @chainwire. Learn more about this writer by checking @chainwire's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Animoca Brands announces strategic partnership with Soneium, an open blockchain developed by Sony and powered by Optimism's Superchain technology. Animoca Brands’ flagship digital identity infrastructure platform for the open internet, will create a premier identity layer on the S oneium blockchain starting with Anime ID. San FranTokyo’s Anime ID will be the first decentralized identifier (DID) and reputation layer adopting the AIR SDK.
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Animoca Brands partners with Sunium to develop Mocha Network's identity layer, by Chainwire.
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 27, 2025, Chainwire, Animoca Brands today announced a strategic
partnership with Sunium, an Ethereum Layer 2 open blockchain developed by Sony and powered by
Optimism's Superchain technology.
Through this partnership Mocha Network, Animoca brand's flagship digital identity infrastructure
platform for the open internet will create a premier identity layer on the Sunium blockchain
starting with Anime ID, a decentralized identifier, DID, and reputation layer spearheaded by San Fran
Tokyo, a core contributor to Anime Foundation,
to enhance user engagement and enable partners in Sunium to issue and verify data credentials.
Mocha Networks account, identity, and reputation SDK, AirSDK, will be integrated into Sunium
blockchain, enabling users to maintain embedded accounts, unique identities, and credentials as they explore various DApps
on Sunium. San Fran Tokyo's Anime ID will be the first
decentralized identifier, did, and reputation layer adopting the Air SDK to integrate into
the Sunium blockchain, enhancing user engagement on anime-related experiences on Sunium.
In collaboration with Animoca Brands, San Fran Tokyo will also launch anime-inspired cultural campaigns on Sunium with the goal to onboard anime fans to Sony's blockchain and connect them to new anime-themed experiences.
Sunium is developed by Sony Block Solutions Labs, SBSL, a joint initiative established by Sony Group Corporation and Stardale Group, focused on transcending boundaries with the open internet. Sony Group has built a diverse range of businesses with the purpose of, filling the world with
emotion through the power of creativity and technology.
The desire to share emotion and excitement and to stay connected with someone no matter
where you are as a fundamental human aspiration.
Greater Than Yat Su, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, said, are greater
than partnership with Sunium marks a significant step towards an interconnected greater than Web3 future.
By integrating Mocha Network's identity infrastructure, we're not greater than just enhancing entertainment experiences.
We're creating a seamless digital greater than ecosystem.
The partnership will empower Sunium users with unified digital greater than identities, bridging anime, gaming, and blockchain technologies.
Greater than Jun Watanabe, chairman of Sony Block Solutions Labs of Sunium, commented,
Greater than, our partnership with Animoca Brands enables us to establish an identity
and greater than reputation layer on Sunium. As one of the largest entertainment industries,
greater than Anime presents immense
potential. By integrating Mocha Network's Air SDK and Greater Than Anime ID into Sunium
and Animoca brands launching anime-inspired cultural greater than campaigns, we aim to
onboard global anime fans to the blockchain, enabling greater than them to collaborate,
create, and infuse the world with emotion. Greater Than David Tang, head of San Fran Tokyo, said,
We're excited to launch Anime ID on, Sonium as one of Anime ID's first major ecosystem
partners.
Together with, Mocha Network and Sonium, San Fran Tokyo will work with our global and industry
greater than partners to connect, onboard, and empower anime fans to new anime-inspired
greater than experiences across ecosystems.
Users can follow Animoca Brands, Mocha Network, Sunium, Anime ID, and San Fran Tokyo on X for
the latest updates and developments. About Sunium Sunium is an Ethereum layer 2 developed
by Sony Block Solutions Labs. This versatile chain is a general purpose blockchain platform
that aims to evoke emotion, empower creativity, and meet diverse needs to go mainstream.
Sunium is simplifying blockchain experiences while empowering developers, creators, and communities.
Built on accessibility, scalability, and efficiency, it aims to solve real-world problems across industries globally. Sunium is changing the way users interact with the internet, opening up a world of innovative
applications and unlimited potential for users worldwide.
Website, X.
Discord, Telegram about Animoca Brands Animoca Brands Corporation Limited.
ACN.
122,921,813, is a Web 3 leader that leverages tokenization and blockchain to deliver digital
property rights to consumers, helping to establish the open metaverse and its associated network
effects.
It has received broad industry and market recognition including Fortune Crypto 40, Top
50 blockchain game companies 2025, Financial Times high-growth companies Asia Pacific,
and Deloitte Tech Fast.
Animoca Brands realizes its mission via three integrated business pillars, operating Web3
businesses to advance blockchain adoption with native projects such as Mocha Network,
Anichess, The Sandbox, Open Campus, Neom Web3 initiatives, and a regulated stablecoin project
in partnership with Standard Chartered and
HKT, providing digital asset advisory services including tokenomics advisory, liquidity provisioning,
and institutional research to help external Web3 projects grow, and investment management,
with a portfolio of investments in over 540 companies including industry leaders Pudgey Penguins, UGA Labs, Axie Infinity, Polygon,
Consensus, Magic Eden, OpenSea, Dapper Labs, YGG, and many others.
For more information users can visit www.animocabrands.com or follow on X, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn,
Facebook, and TikTok.
About Mocha Network Mocha Network, one of Animoca brand's flagship projects, is building the chain-agnostic digital
identity infrastructure for the open Internet by providing one universal account for a user's
assets, identity, and reputation across multiple ecosystems.
Mocha Network is powered by MochaCoin, which serves as the utility token for data generation,
storage, verification for data generation, storage,
verification for users, AI agents, and DAO governance.
MochaCoin is issued by the Mocha Foundation.
The primary product built by Mocha Network is AirKit, a digital identity infrastructure
that enables Web2 and Web3 projects to create a universal embedded account for users to
own and use digital assets, identity, and reputation data,
while gaining access to a suite of DeFi and consumer services provided by Mocha Network's
partners. AirKit empowers large user-based apps to create their own app ecosystem natively with
embedded blockchain features, while ensuring these users can use the same account, identity,
reputation across all consumer apps on any chains that have adopted AirKit.
Website Mocha Networks
https://x.com mocha-net corporation communications press at animacabrans.com
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