Recently@ AstarNetwork and Sony Chain @ soneium have launched a 100 day Astar Contribution Score (ACS) community incentive campaign, which is a strong alliance campaign to drive the ecosystem through mining incentives under bear market expectations. How should we view it? Many people may not be familiar with Astar, which was once a layer 1 parallel chain in the popular cross chain duo Polkadot ecosystem. It supports multiple virtual machines (EVM and WASM), and its unique dApp Staking mechanism rewards developers with ASTR through staking. In addition, it can seamlessly bridge assets in cross chain interoperability, and its technical strength in cross chain ecology should not be underestimated. If it's not enough for Make Sense, let me add that the Sony Group announced the development of the OP Stack based layer2 chain Soneium, which is jointly created by Startable Labs and the development team behind Astar Network. It can be imagined that the technology development team selected by Sony Group must be extraordinary. In addition to joint development, the launch of this ACS community incentive activity can combine Astar's technological advantages and Soneium's ecological resource advantages to achieve a win-win situation and achieve a synergistic complementary effect. According to the activity rules, users can interact in the Soneium ecosystem to earn ACS points, including using DeFi protocol, providing LP liquidity for the protocol pool, and so on. Different types of interactions will receive different points multiplier bonuses, and ultimately each point will be exchanged for 0.1 ASTR token after the activity ends, with a total reward of 100 million ASTR. The activity itself is not complicated, but the significance behind the linkage between the two is extraordinary: On the one hand, Astar has a strong technical background and strength in the Polkadot ecosystem. With more and more public chains exploring new multi chain development strategies, Astar has also adjusted its strategy accordingly, exploring potential development space in a broader ecological environment outside the Polkadot ecosystem; After escaping, embracing the Ethereum layer2 Superchain camp and its inherent advantages in cross chain interaction performance and security complement each other. Astar's circulation on Soneium not only expands its own use cases, but also has the potential to become a technological "bridge" connecting multi chain ecosystems such as Ethereum; On the other hand, the Layer2 public chain Soneium mainnet has been announced to be launched for over a month, leveraging Sony Group's resource advantages and siphon capabilities in vertical fields such as gaming, finance, and gaming. It quickly attracted widespread market attention and demonstrated strong potential for ecological development. Astar's community operation incentive plan is essentially an attempt to implement ASTR tokens within the Soneium ecosystem, such as Yay, Untitled Bank, and so on. Overall, this move can leverage the advantages of Soneium Chain in terms of ecological activity, and also bring more token application scenarios, new ecological users, and more practical commercial application scenarios to Astar's old chain, consolidating the foundation for the implementation of its technical capabilities. But what I want to say more is that Layer 1, which originally supports multi chain interoperability, actively provides token subsidies to the emerging public chain Soneium to break through, which can effectively compensate for Polkadot's shortcomings in user acquisition and application landing. At the same time, this strategy of complementary advantages is more focused on "leveraging strengths", which will greatly reduce Soneium's cold start costs and accelerate its ecological network synergy. The mutual exchange and integration of the two may seem like a complementary alliance of technology and resources, but it is also an experiment to integrate the old layer 1 chain and the new layer 2 enterprise customized chain, ultimately driving the fusion of web3 technology idealism and new consumer level pragmatism.