According to Bijie.com, Startale Group announced that it will use the Sequencer income of its Ethereum L2 blockchain Soneium jointly developed with Sony Group to purchase ASTR tokens in the market to further promote the integration of Soneium and Astar ecologically and future asset mergers. It is reported that Soneium is developed and operated by Sony Block Solution Labs (co-owned by Sony headquarters and Startale) and led by Astar founder Sota Watanabe. Its Sequencer is responsible for sorting, packaging and submitting transactions to Ethereum L1, and also collecting transaction fees.