Soneium went online and immediately sparked controversy! Researchers reveal the OP Stack anti-censorship mechanism, which can bypass L2 and execute transactions on the Mainnet.

The highly anticipated Sony group's Ethereum Layer 2 Soneium recently went live on Mainnet, but immediately sparked controversy. Generally, the public's biggest concern about the involvement of Layer 2 giants in blockchain is twofold. First, how much resources is the group willing to invest in blockchain, or is it just for experimental purposes. Second, there are concerns about centralization, as evidenced by Deutsche Bank's Layer 2. Soneium's controversy is also the latter, as the public chain can review and reject the execution of delegated coin contracts at the RPC stage.

(Characteristics of the underlying infrastructure RPC of blockchain analysis and Pocket Network)

Soneium will freeze the token and does not have anti-censorship features

Derivative protocol Polynomial co-founder @gauthamzzz shared some controversies about the launch of Soneium on Twitter. He said that if you create a token on Soneium, the public chain will review the token contract and reject the execution of transactions in the RPC stage. If they don't like your token contract, you will receive a rejection reply, without further explanation of the issues with the token contract.

When Soneium decides to reject the transaction, early traders of the token cannot sell their tokens and suffer losses.

L2beat researcher bypasses L2 to execute transactions on L1

Donnoh, the party involved, explained that he created the $aibo token according to the standard token launch process on DEX dyorswap on Soneium. This token is named after the robot dog developed by Sony. However, the creation of this token was immediately prohibited.

However, Donnoh is no ordinary person. He is a researcher at L2beat. Therefore, he tried to use the characteristics of OP Stack to bypass Layer2 and execute transactions on EthereumMainnet.

Soneium Special Rule: Strict IP Protection Review

Soneium also explains that the rules of this chain place special emphasis on IP protection. Although they encourage applications like meme coin, if there is suspected infringement, the contract of the coin will be blacklisted in the RPC phase. However, this blacklist is reversible, meaning that after necessary changes to comply with Soneium's rules, the coin can still be successfully released. There is already a successful case of unlocking.

Soneium has also announced IP-related rules, including:

Prohibited use of names: Asset names, stock codes or images cannot reference other companies, projects, individuals or protected entities (e.g. Sony).

Prohibited use of copyrighted content: Specific images, characters, artists, games, products, or other copyrighted data may not be used without authorization.

Specifically, the first 12 hours of the token's release is a grace period. During this period, if there are suspicions of infringement, the token will be moved to the suspicious token list, and the official team will send a notification in advance with detailed reasoning explaining why the token is prohibited. Token developers can interact directly with the official team and resolve the issues during the grace period. If the problem is not resolved within this period, the token will be moved to the blacklist. An official committee has also been formed to review relevant regulations.

OP Stack L2 all have anti-censorship features

@gauthamzzz This is an important design of the OP Stack, which forces each Layer 2 to inherit the security guarantee of Ethereum. Soneium can try to review at the RPC level, but they cannot prevent users from forcing transactions through L1. This is not a hacking technique, but an inherent design of the OP Stack, and all Layer 2s using this tool inherit the anti-censorship feature.

Binji, Head of Optimism's NFT Department, also stated that centralized sequencers cannot perform thorough censorship because users can always enforce Layer 2 transactions through Layer 1.

Vitalik Buterin also believes that Soneium's case perfectly demonstrates the great flexibility of Ethereum Layer 2 in setting public chain rules for enterprises. Regardless of the rules they choose, everything is on the chain, transparent, and auditable by third parties. Whether it is an open or closed ecosystem, users can choose for themselves under the understanding of the rules.

In fact, similar rules are more evident on Deutsche Bank's Layer 2.

(Once the largest bank in Europe, Deutsche Bank has launched a castrated version of Ethereum Layer 2 based on zkSync to meet regulatory requirements)

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