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MetaSolare is simply a caller Web3 startup for “MusicFi”, “AnimeFi”, and “GameFi” whose co-founders see DJ Steve Aoki and Masato Matsuura, president of Japanese Entertainment Company Avex. Today the institution made its authoritative launch, releasing details of its upcoming Web3 project, which are disposable connected its authoritative website.
The satellite is connected the verge of a paradigm displacement from Web2 to Web3, and caller genres of amusement that marque afloat usage of NFTs and tokens are opening to spot wide adoption. But this caller epoch needs a caller benignant of thinking, and a caller unfastened architecture wherever users person the power, and are progressive successful making the decisions.
To accommodate to this gyration requires much than conscionable cognition of the amusement industry: it requires cognition from the blockchain and fiscal worlds arsenic well. MetaSolare has brought unneurotic experts from each these industries to signifier an wholly caller benignant of Web3 amusement project.
These experts see co-founder DJ Steve Aoki, 1 of the astir good known members of the crypto community, arsenic good arsenic Masato Matsuura, the president of Avex, 1 of Japan’s biggest media and amusement companies. Together, they are arrogant to enactment connected the MetaSolare Blockchain Ecosystem.
Project VisionBuilding a caller amusement ecosystem takes 3 things: blockchain exertion that allows users to ain integer content, fiscal elements to let for a sustainable content-centered economy, and crippled exertion that allows for large-scale interactive communication.
MetaSolare isn’t a task that uses contented and IP simply arsenic instruments for fiscal investment. Instead, it fuses these 3 elements successful a mode that allows for wholly caller amusement experiences successful the fields of anime, gaming, and music, wherever everyone progressive tin make them together.
■Game Fi
The words “Play to Earn” and “Play and Earn” are commonly utilized erstwhile talking astir Blockchain games. MetaSolare looks to spell a measurement further, to a nine wherever games are portion of mundane life. In this world, everyone astir the satellite tin go a “co-creator”, helping to physique a caller aboriginal for gaming successful immoderate fig of ways and from immoderate fig of places. Their passionateness for the crippled tin go assets some tangible and intangible.
To marque this possible, MetaSolare is moving with a squad of developers who person acquisition making immoderate of the biggest video gaming titles successful the world. Together, they’ll physique a amended satellite empowered by gaming, a imagination that everyone tin enactment towards together.
■Anime Fi
Combining anime and blockchain opens up caller possibilities for users to get progressive with animation successful immoderate fig of ways. The MetaSolare task combined NFTs, tokens, and exertion to make an wholly caller signifier of animation successful tandem with users and creators.
The acquisition of digitally owning portion of your favourite anime tin connection immoderate fig of caller experiences and unfastened the doorway to an wholly caller backing model. And Metasolare volition beryllium determination to connection you that world.
■Music Fi
NFTs and tokens are a almighty instrumentality to link artists and fans, which let for caller types of ownership and ways to enactment creators. These caller tools volition alteration however euphony is made, and however stars are born.
MetaSolare volition beryllium creating crypto-native euphony artists, backed by DAOs and NFTs. MetaSolare token and NFT holders volition beryllium fixed the accidental to beryllium straight progressive successful the artists future: for example, token and NFT holders volition assistance clasp auditions to prime caller artists and talents and assistance them get acceptable for their large debut, with livestreams being held astatine regular intervals to assistance amusement however acold they’ve come.
MetaSolare’s squad has heavy connections successful the planetary euphony scene, and successful Asia particularly. MetaSolare Co-Founder Steve Aoki is 1 of the astir well-known DJs successful the world, and Co-Founder Masato Matsuura is the president of Avex, 1 of Asia’s largest amusement companies. These heavy connections marque them uniquely positioned to marque the adjacent procreation of crypto-native euphony a reality.
Core Members
MetaSolare’s halfway members are a radical of starring experts from the entertainment, blockchain, and fiscal industries, who’ve travel unneurotic arsenic individuals to make a mode to supply wholly caller forms of entertainment, and physique a caller system unneurotic with users and creators.
KENTARO BEPPU （CEO / Co-Founder）
Formerly the nationalist wide manager of a large Japanese edifice chain, and laminitis of his ain IT selling company. A well-known subordinate of the Japanese concern community, helium promotes fiscal literacy nether the sanction “Ken Jinguji”.
ASAHI IWANAGA（COO / Co-Founder）
Asahi is the Chief Operating Officer for MetaSolare, and erstwhile President & CEO of Avex Technologies. Previously, helium spent 3 years publishing games connected Steam astatine an planetary crippled publisher. He worked arsenic a merchandise manager successful the broadcast/VOD amusement manufacture astatine a NASDAQ-listed company. Asahi besides attended assemblage astatine the University of Wisconsin-Madison earlier helping recovered an e-commerce work astatine a Silicon Valley startup successful 1999.
As of 6/24/2022, successful bid to absorption full-time connected the MetaSolare project, Asahi near his relation arsenic President of Avex Technologies and present serves arsenic Avex’s Web3/Blockchain Technology advisor. As COO of the project, helium volition beryllium progressive successful each important decisions.
MASATO MATSUURA （Co-Founder）
Founder of Avex, 1 of Japan’s biggest amusement companies. A hugely important fig successful the past of modern Japanese music, helium was instrumental successful bringing creation euphony into Japan and has galore connections with DJs and well-known figures each implicit the world.
STEVE AOKI（Co-Founder）
Counting astir 3 cardinal euphony streams to his name, Steve Aoki is simply a existent visionary. Billboard described the 2x-GRAMMY-Nominated artist/DJ/producer and Dim Mak Records laminitis arsenic “one of the astir in-demand entertainers successful the world.” A existent renaissance man, Steve Aoki is besides a manner designer, writer and entrepreneur.
TSUBASA MURAKAMI （CLO / Co-Founder）
A certified M&A Senior Expert and a certified Business Succession Senior Expert with the Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs. In 2016, helium began angel investing and gathering concern funds, participating successful financing projects worthy much than 2 cardinal USD successful total. He present puts his acquisition to bully usage moving with lawyers and taxation accountants some successful Japan and overseas to heighten firm worth done concern improvement studies and M&A advisory services.
SEIHAKU YOSHIDA (Co-Founder)
Seihaku Yoshida founded HashPort, Inc. successful 2018 and ran the institution arsenic President. He has helped enactment galore projects specified arsenic IOST, Enjin, Qtum, Tron, Tezos, and others successful their efforts to grow into Japan. In 2020, helium founded and ran HashPalette, Inc. arsenic an NFT subsidiary of HashPort. HashPalette conducted Japan’s archetypal IEO successful 2021, attracting 22.4 cardinal yen for a cardinal yen offering.
ROBERT TRAN (Co-Founder)
Director and Executive Director of Animoca Brands Japan. Former VP of Experian, helium went connected to found/co-found respective companies, including iClick Interactive, the largest integer selling automation level and SaaS solution supplier successful Asia, UNDONE, an industry-leading D2C institution for customized watches, and UCOLLEX INTERNATIONAL, a next-generation creator level utilizing blockchain technology.
TAKASHI HATANAKA (Co-Founder)
Spent 23 years astatine Goldman Sachs, moving astatine immoderate of its astir important divisions including the proprietary trading section and the Asian equity derivatives and quantitative trading division. Full-time manager and CEO astatine a bio-venture company.
SHINICHI HISAMATSU (CTO)
After earning a master’s grade successful Media and governance from Keio University, Shinichi Hisamatsu studied machine subject and man-machine interfaces arsenic a researcher astatine the Interfaculty Initiative successful Information Studies astatine the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies (University of Tokyo), arsenic good arsenic astatine the MIT Media Lab and Keio University School of Nursing and Medical Care.
A passionate protagonist of start-ups and pioneering thinkers, Shinichi has utilized his method expertise to assistance aggregate companies to motorboat with success.
He is an adept successful a wide scope of integer technology, including web development, mobile applications and blockchain.
In his erstwhile relation arsenic CTO of Zen Global Limited, Shinichi built a blockchain-based donation level and auditing work for charitable foundations, NPOs and NGOs successful Malaysia, Britain, and aggregate different countries.
He is presently CTO of Theo Design and Aipro Inc, and is researching methods of utilizing integer exertion to enactment entrepreneurs astatine Aoyama Gakuin University.
Teruaki Asano (CFO)
Teruaki joined Goldman Sachs’ concern part successful 2005. Over the adjacent 15 years helium was liable for monitoring P&L, equilibrium sheets, and valuations of fiscal products successful fixed income, equity derivatives, existent property and backstage equity.
After leaving Goldman Sachs successful 2020, helium moved connected to service arsenic the CFO of a existent property task company. There helium gained acquisition successful indebtedness financing, monitoring show of proprietary investments successful existent property and backstage equities, and managing back-office functions. Currently, helium is simply a task capitalist, giving fiscal proposal to a wide assortment of start-up companies.
Teruaki has a bachelor’s grade successful Economics from Rikkyo University and an MBA from Waseda Graduate School of Finance, Accounting and Law. He is simply a CFA Charterholder and has besides passed the US CPA exam successful the authorities of Washington.
Partners
In an property of idiosyncratic excellence, MetaSolare is gathering a Web3 satellite with partners crossed manufacture boundaries.
Partner Companies (As of July 2022)
Avex Technologies (Gaming) HashPort (Blockchain Technology Support)
More partners to beryllium announced.
HashPort (Blockchain Technology Support) UCOLLEX INTERNATIONAL LIMITED ABEJA Inc.
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