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First product, Pyre, launches a new consumer category: entertainment finance. $SOPH joins Base as one of the largest project tokens in the ecosystem.**\n\ntoday announced it is sunsetting its ZK-powered layer-2 blockchain and relaunching as SOPH, a consumer product studio building on Base. The company is the first well-funded L2 team to publicly act on a thesis it has been signaling since September 2025: the infrastructure era of crypto is over.\n\nSophon raised $60M in 2024 to build a platform for onchain consumer experiences. That mission is unchanged. What’s changed is the company’s view of where the value gets created.\n\n> “We paused nine months ago and asked the basic question: was our own chain doing anything that justified spending millions a year on infrastructure? It wasn’t. Infrastructure is commoditized. For the mid- and long-tail of general-purpose chains, including ours, near-zero value gets created at the chain layer. 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