Vitalik comments on Soneium blacklisting some Meme coins: This is a chain rule set by enterprise-level L2

Vitalik commented on his social platform about the incident of Soneium blacklisting some Meme coins, stating that Soneium's situation vividly demonstrates the benefits of launching Ethereum L2 for businesses and users.

Companies can make very detailed choices about how much control to retain and give to users. But whatever rules they choose, those are the rules. Everything is on-chain, transparent, and can be audited by a third party.

Developers can also create a system that lets users know they can send transactions on L2 when needed, but there's a big obstacle - sorters can limit but not censor. This is essentially what Sony did. It's all free market at work. As an ecosystem, it needs to ensure:

A large amount of financial activity takes place in a completely open environment;
There are enough tools available for users to understand the properties of their on-chain environment.

Previously reported news caused controversy as Sony Layer2 project Soneium blacklisted some Meme coins suspected of infringing intellectual property rights on its mainnet launch day. This resulted in some tokens being restricted from trading and unsupported by official block explorers.