Sophon sets Nov. 25 withdrawal deadline ahead of mainnet shutdown

A project winding down its own chain to redeploy on Base is a small but telling data point on the economics of standalone L1/L2 operation: when maintenance costs outrun perceived benefit, consolidation onto larger ecosystems becomes the path of least resistance. The immediate audience is anyone with assets still on Sophon, for whom the withdrawal window is now finite. The more interesting question is whether the pivot toward consumer finance and AI on Base delivers anything the abandoned chain could not, or whether the shutdown simply precedes a quieter fade.