It was announced on November 19, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported that more than 30 companies including Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Mizuho Bank, and NTT Group have formed a digital currency forum to put a common platform for digital currency into practice by 2022. The digital currency…

My Crypto Heroes, a blockchain game run by double jump.toko, announced that it plans to start issuing the governance token ‘MCH Coin’ on November 9th at 12 pm. The total number of “MCH Coins” will be 50 million and will be designed in accordance with the ERC-20 standard so that…

At the Blockchain Global Governance Conference (BG2C) held today, it was announced that EY Advisory & Consulting is developing a blockchain solution based on R3’s blockchain Corda to support the response to the new coronavirus, with the aim of accelerating the delivery of benefits. The company will use blockchain to…

A provider of housing-related services such as LIFULL HOME’S, a real estate and housing information website, announced a business partnership with Securitize Japan, a digital securities platform provider, to offer a security Token Offering (STO) scheme for real estate specified joint ventures (non-specialized businesses). A real estate specific joint enterprise…

SOMPO Holdings, Sompo Japan Insurance, Navitime Japan, and LayerX announced that they will launch a blockchain-based MaaS field trial on August 18. The role of each company in the experiment is: SOMPO Holdings will oversee the overall operation; Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. …

The two companies announced that digital currency exchange operator DeCurret, which operates a crypto-asset (virtual currency) exchange, had been conducting a demonstration experiment on digital currency with Kansai Electric Power Co. in March 2020. Through this experiment, the two companies issued their own digital currency for the Kansai Electric Power…

Art technology company startbahn Inc. has announced a management change and fundraising. The purpose of the change in management is to expand the business and promote Startrail, an ethereum-based art blockchain infrastructure developed by the company. The new additions include Yoshihisa Nakano, President of the Eastern Culture Support Foundation as…

The Bank of Japan’s Director-General of the Clearing and Settlement Services Agency, Takeshi Kimura, was interviewed by the Asahi Shimbun about the central bank’s consideration of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), the newspaper reported on July 28. On July 20, the Bank of Japan established a Digital Currency Group…

Japanese real estate developer Lead Real Estate has announced plans to raise millions of dollars in overseas funding through the digital securitization of its preferred shares. The digital securities firm Securitize, Dubai-based financial firm GRIP, and U.S. broker-dealer Rialto Markets will be involved in the digital securities issue. …