Security Token, or digital securities, is rising in the Japanese financial market. In 2021, a number of established corporates, including major financial institutions, are working on projects in varied sectors.

We BlockchainHub Inc. supported foundation of Japan Security Token Association (JSTA) in 2019, anticipating expansion of security token business in Japan. Since the foundation, we, as Foundation Partner, have closely co-worked with JSTA.

In the coming years, we expect to see more projects in commercial phases, beyond PoC or trial. For the purpose of accelerating new players joining to the market and clarifying the present snapshot of the market, we here created “Japanese Security Token 2021“. We will keep contributing to the growth of security token business in Japan, in collaboration with JSTA.

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Business Model Association will host an Evening Session as for Revolution of Art Business with NFT. Our CEO, as Principal of the association, will moderate the session, with a guest speaker, Mr. Taihei Shii, CEO of Startbahn.

We will have a webinar series of “Blockchain Business” from June 11.

#1 Market Overview
https://blockchainacademy20210611.peatix.com
#2 Business surrounding crypto exchanges
https://blockchainacademy20210618.peatix.com
#3 Enthusiasm in ICO & NFT
https://blockchainacademy20210625.peatix.com
#4 DeFi & Stablecoin
https://blockchainacademy20210702.peatix.com
#5 Potential of Security Token
https://blockchainacademy20210709.peatix.com
#6 Industrial usecases (non-financial)
https://blockchainacademy20210716.peatix.com 

We will have a webinar focusing on NFT, Non-Fungible Token, on May 27, in collaboration with Yuto Takei, CEO of Basset.

https://blockchainacademy20210527.peatix.com/

We will have a series of smart-contract programming seminars from May 12 to June 2 every Wednesday.

Ethereum and BBc-1 (Beyond Blockchain One), a DLT Platform developed by our startup, beyond blockchain .org.

• 1st session: https://blockchainacademy20210512.peatix.com
• 2nd session: https://blockchainacademy20210519.peatix.com
• 3rd session: https://blockchainacademy20210526.peatix.com
• 4th session: https://blockchainacademy20210602.peatix.com

We exhibited at the 2nd Blockchain Expo Tokyo last week, together with BeyondBlockchain.org and Japan Security Token Association, both of which we supported their foundation. According to the expo organizer, the number of visitors this time is 1.5 times as large as the 1st expo last autumn. Thank you for all visitors to our booth.

Gateway Program” Launched to Support Overseas Startups Entering Japan.

We has launched the “Gateway Program” to support the first step to enter the Japanese market for overseas startups mainly developing business in the blockchain domain.

Since our founding in 2016, we have been providing educational programs, co-creating businesses with companies, and supporting start-up businesses with the mission of creating new businesses using blockchain technology. Blockchain technology is having a huge impact on various industries as a new social infrastructure. We have focused on entrepreneurship as the driving force behind such innovation, and have been supporting entrepreneurs who want to launch businesses using blockchain and other advanced technologies.

The reason behind the launch of the Gateway Program to support overseas startups entering the Japanese market is the expectation that further innovation will be triggered when outstanding overseas businesspeople and many leading use cases interact with various businesses in Japan to create a chemical reaction. Our Gateway Program is intended to support overseas startups that want to conduct market feasibility studies and tap into potential customers prior to establishing a Japanese subsidiary or country manager.

The outline of the support is as follows

• Basic plan: Provision of liaison contact points and business matching support
• Event options: Support for organizing various events and follow-up support after the events
• PR options: Translation of various PR materials into Japanese and support for developing them on PR platforms and SNS

We hope that this program will help to revitalize the blockchain business in Japan.

About Blockchain Hub Inc.
With a mission to “create new businesses using blockchain technology,” Blockchain Hub Inc. is engaged in blockchain technology with (1) education – Blockchain Academy, (2) business community management and business development support based on a corporate membership system, (3) start-up support for potential entrepreneurs – Blockchain Business Incubation, and (4) Gateway program to support overseas startups entering Japan.
The company’s start-up member community consists mainly of companies established under its start-up support program, and is engaged in the development of products and services using blockchain and other advanced technologies.

We will exhibit at the 2nd Blockchain EXPO Japan on Apr 7-9.

Following our exhibition at the 1st Blockchain EXPO last Oct, we will have a booth at the 2nd Blockchain EXPO, together with Beyond Blockchain .org and Japan Security Token Association, both of which we supported their foundation.

Date: Apr 7 (Wed) to 9 (Fri) 10am-6pm
Venue: Aomi Exhibition Hall, Tokyo Big Sight
Web: https://www.bc-expo.jp/en-gb.html

Our booth is located at ” 1-14 “.

We are looking forward to seeing you.

We published a technical treatise “Requirement Analyses and Evaluations of Blockchain Platforms per Possible Use Cases” on arXiv of Cornell University.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03209

We have formed a working group researching about a variety of blockchain platforms including:

Hyperledger Fabric
Hyperledger Iroha
Hyperledger Indy
Hyperledger Besu
Ethereum（および Ethereum 2.0）
Quorum
Polkadot
Corda
BBc-1

BBc-1 (Beyond Blockchain One) is a platform designed by Beyond Blockchain Org., founded under our incubation program. Please see https://beyond-blockchain.org/ .

The published treatise is the deliverable of studies by our working group members, as listed hereof:

BlockchainHub Inc.
IT-One Co.,Ltd.
IBM Japan, Ltd.
Cube System Inc.
CAC Corporation
Tokyo Technical Consultant Co., Ltd.

We moved to new venue (Nihombashi-Kayabacho).

Our new address is as follows:
８F, 1-8-1 Nihombashi-Kayabacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0025, JAPAN.

which is located in FinGATE KAYABA, a shared-office place.