MetaSolare is a brand new Web3 startup for “Music Fi”, “Anime Fi”, and “Recreation Fi” whose co-founders embrace DJ Steve Aoki and Masato Matsuura, founding father of Japanese Leisure Firm Avex. At this time the undertaking made its official launch, releasing particulars of its upcoming Web3 undertaking, which can be found on its official web site.
The world is on the verge of a paradigm shift from Web2 to Web3, and new genres of leisure that make full use of NFTs and tokens are starting to see broad adoption. However this new period wants a brand new kind of pondering, and a brand new open structure the place customers have the ability, and are concerned in making the choices.
To adapt to this revolution requires extra than simply information of the leisure {industry}: it requires information from the blockchain and monetary worlds as properly. MetaSolare has introduced collectively consultants from all these industries to type a wholly new kind of Web3 leisure undertaking.
These consultants embrace co-founder DJ Steve Aoki, one of the crucial well-known members of the crypto group, in addition to Masato Matsuura, the founding father of Avex, one in all Japan’s greatest media and leisure corporations. Collectively, they’re proud to work on the MetaSolare Blockchain Ecosystem.
Challenge Imaginative and prescient
Constructing a brand new leisure ecosystem takes three issues: blockchain expertise that enables customers to personal digital content material, monetary parts to permit for a sustainable content-centered financial system, and recreation expertise that enables for large-scale interactive communication.
MetaSolare isn’t a undertaking that makes use of content material and IP merely as devices for monetary funding. As an alternative, it fuses these three parts in a method that enables for completely new leisure experiences within the fields of anime, gaming, and music, the place everybody concerned can create them collectively.
■Recreation Fi
The phrases “Play to Earn” and “Play and Earn” are generally used when speaking about Blockchain video games. MetaSolare appears to be like to go a step additional, to a society the place video games are a part of on a regular basis life.
On this world, everybody world wide can grow to be a “co-creator”, serving to to construct a brand new future for gaming in any variety of methods and from any variety of locations. Their ardour for the sport can grow to be belongings each tangible and intangible.
To make this potential, MetaSolare is working with a crew of builders who’ve expertise making among the greatest video gaming titles on the planet. Collectively, they’ll construct a greater world empowered by gaming, a dream that everybody can work in the direction of collectively.
■Anime Fi
Combining anime and blockchain opens up new prospects for customers to become involved with animation in any variety of methods. The MetaSolare undertaking mixed NFTs, tokens, and expertise to create a wholly new type of animation in tandem with customers and creators.
The expertise of digitally proudly owning a part of your favourite anime can provide any variety of new experiences and open the door to a wholly new funding mannequin. And MetaSolare will probably be there to give you that world.
■Music Fi
NFTs and tokens are a strong device to attach artists and followers, which permit for brand new varieties of possession and methods to help creators. These new instruments will change how music is made, and the way stars are born.
MetaSolare will probably be creating crypto-native music artists, backed by DAOs and NFTs. MetaSolare token and NFT holders will probably be given the chance to be straight concerned within the artists future: for instance, token and NFT holders will assist maintain auditions to choose new artists and abilities and assist them prepare for his or her large debut, with livestreams being held at common intervals to assist present how far they’ve come.
MetaSolare’s crew has deep connections within the international music scene, and in Asia notably. MetaSolare Co-Founder Steve Aoki is likely one of the most well-known DJs on the planet, and Co-Founder Masato Matsuura is the founding father of Avex, one in all Asia’s largest leisure corporations. These deep connections make them uniquely positioned to make the subsequent era of crypto-native music a actuality.
Core Members
MetaSolare’s core members are a gaggle of main consultants from the leisure, blockchain, and monetary industries, who’ve come collectively as people to create a method to offer completely new types of leisure, and construct a brand new financial system along with customers and creators.
KENTARO BEPPU （CEO / Co-Founder）
After working because the nationwide basic supervisor of a serious restaurant firm, Kentaro Beppu began his personal enterprise within the area of IT advertising. He grew to become fascinated with the world of blockchain by means of his cryptocurrency investments that started in 2016. Along with his roles as an entrepreneur and investor, he posts on YouTube and different social media below the title “Ken Jinguji”, the place he educates Japanese folks about blockchain-related points and monetary/funding literacy. Kentaro has additionally been an enormous online game fanatic since childhood, and he spends lots of his free hours gaming. Within the blockchain gaming world, he’s been each a supervisor and a participant, and his previous experiences embrace managing a guild of over 500 folks. As CEO at MetaSolare, he’s concerned in key choice making all through the undertaking.
ASAHI IWANAGA（COO / Co-Founder）
Asahi is the Chief Working Officer for MetaSolare, and former President & CEO of Avex Applied sciences. Beforehand, he spent three years publishing video games on Steam at a world recreation writer. He labored as a product supervisor within the broadcast/VOD leisure {industry} at a NASDAQ-listed firm. Asahi additionally attended school on the College of Wisconsin-Madison earlier than serving to discovered an e-commerce service at a Silicon Valley startup in 1999.
As of 6/24/2022, in an effort to focus full-time on the MetaSolare undertaking, Asahi left his function as President of Avex Applied sciences and now serves as Avex’s Web3/Blockchain Know-how advisor. As COO of the undertaking, he will probably be concerned in all vital choices.
MASATO MATSUURA （Co-Founder）
Masato is the founder and present chairman of Avex, Inc. one in all Japan’s main music and leisure corporations. He has been energetic within the leisure {industry} for greater than 30 years, not solely as a enterprise proprietor, but additionally as a producer below the stage title Masato ‘Max’ Matsuura. He’s a widely known chief within the {industry} for his fearless, ground-breaking approaches and willingness to strive new issues. Being one of many first to introduce dance music to Japan, Masato has in depth relationships with well-known DJs from world wide. Now he’s prepared to search out the subsequent era of leisure on the planet of blockchain and the metaverse.
STEVE AOKI（Co-Founder）
With 77 million month-to-month common customers throughout all platforms, 2x GRAMMY nominated music producer, artist, designer, entrepreneur and Web3/NFT visionary Steve Aoki is likely one of the most profitable cross-genre artists on the planet. From his genesis NFT assortment “Dream Catcher” first launched in 2021 and “Dominion X” (the primary episodic sequence to launch on the blockchain, created with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios) and the creation of his NFT membership group A0K1VERSE, to the inception of NFT market OddKey (with Venom and Spawn creator Todd McFarlane), Aoki has cemented himself as one of the crucial profitable but boundary-breaking figures within the metaverse. Moreover, Aoki continues to create cultural touchpoints by means of tasks resembling his partnership with Sandbox for the sale of Aoki’s Avatars, and collaboration with Snoop Dogg on the discharge of the “Da Da” EP dropped solely on blockchain-based Gala Music.
TSUBASA MURAKAMI （CLO / Co-Founder）
Tsubasa is a licensed M&A Senior Professional and a licensed Enterprise Succession Senior Professional with the Kinzai Institute for Monetary Affairs. He labored at a authorities company for six years, the place he participated in over 200 tasks together with cross-border power asset purchases and gross sales, enterprise funding evaluations, and financing. In 2016, he started angel investing and constructing funding funds, taking part in financing tasks value greater than two billion USD in complete. He now places his expertise to good use working with legal professionals and tax accountants each in Japan and overseas to boost company worth by means of enterprise improvement research and M&A advisory companies. Tsubasa majored in finance and administration at UCLA and graduated from the Keio College College of Economics.
SEIHAKU YOSHIDA (Co-Founder)
Seihaku Yoshida based HashPort, Inc. in 2018 and ran the corporate as President. He has helped help quite a few tasks resembling IOST, Enjin, Qtum, Tron, Tezos, and others of their efforts to increase into Japan. In 2020, he based and ran HashPalette, Inc. as an NFT subsidiary of HashPort. HashPalette performed Japan’s first IEO in 2021, attracting 22.4 billion yen for a billion yen providing.
He’s a co-chair of the ICOIEO committee of the Japan Crypto Asset Enterprise Affiliation (JCBA), the biggest crypto asset {industry} group in Japan, a co-researcher on the College of Engineering of the College of Tokyo, and a co-member of the Crypto Asset Analysis Challenge by the World Analysis Institute of Keio College.
Previous to founding HashPort, he labored for Boston Consulting Group. At BCG Digital Ventures, the corporate’s digital enterprise improvement arm, he was the youngest Enterprise Architect within the Tokyo workplace and labored on tasks in Japan and China. He graduated from the Keio College College of Regulation.
ROBERT TRAN (Co-Founder)
Graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston College in 1992.
In 2004, Robert Tran joined Experian (listed on the London Inventory Change), a number one international data companies firm, the place he served as VP and Department Supervisor after the launch of Experian Asia Pacific. Since 2009, he has served as Government Director and co-founder of iClick Interactive (NASDAQ listed), the biggest digital advertising automation platform and SaaS resolution supplier in Asia, the place he has been concerned within the firm’s administration. In 2015, he based UNDONE in Hong Kong, an industry-leading D2C firm for custom-made watches. The corporate operates in two places, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
In March 2021, UCOLLEX INTERNATIONAL, a next-generation creator platform utilizing blockchain NFT expertise, was established. Robert serves as its CEO.
He’s additionally a Director and Government Director of Animoca Manufacturers Japan.
TAKASHI HATANAKA (Co-Founder)
Takashi began his profession at Goldman Sachs in 1993. After working within the IT division creating buying and selling techniques, he joined the corporate’s New York quant division in 1996, after which its proprietary buying and selling division in 2002, the place he was concerned in modeling, danger administration, and fairness derivatives buying and selling. After returning to Japan in 2004, he led the institution of a quant crew in Asia because the Managing Director and was transferred to Hong Kong, the bottom of the Asian division in 2011. He then led the Fairness Derivatives and Quantitative Buying and selling Division, which utilized state-of-the-art expertise. After leaving the corporate in 2016, he labored as an investor and advisor for enterprise and funding corporations in Japan and Southeast Asia, taking part in enterprise startups primarily within the areas of machine studying and administration and capital technique. After returning to Japan in 2019, he got here to appreciate the importance and prospects of not simply the IT area, however the medical area as properly. He now serves as full-time director and CFO at a bio-venture firm, serving to society and increasing strategic enterprise alternatives within the area of personal apply.
SHINICHI HISAMATSU (CTO)
After incomes a grasp’s diploma in Media and governance from Keio College, Shinichi Hisamatsu studied pc science and man-machine interfaces as a researcher on the Interfaculty Initiative in Data Research on the Graduate College of Interdisciplinary Data Research (College of Tokyo), in addition to on the MIT Media Lab and Keio College College of Nursing and Medical Care.
A passionate supporter of start-ups and pioneering thinkers, Shinichi has used his technical experience to assist a number of corporations to launch with success.
He’s an knowledgeable in a variety of digital expertise, together with internet improvement, cellular purposes and blockchain.
In his earlier function as CTO of Zen World Restricted, Shinichi constructed a blockchain-based donation platform and auditing service for charitable foundations, NPOs and NGOs in Malaysia, Britain, and a number of different international locations.
He’s at the moment CTO of Theo Design and Aipro Inc, and is researching strategies of utilizing digital expertise to help entrepreneurs at Aoyama Gakuin College.
TERUAKI ASANO (CFO)
Teruaki joined Goldman Sachs’ finance division in 2005. Over the subsequent 15 years he was accountable for monitoring P&L, steadiness sheets, and valuations of monetary merchandise in mounted revenue, fairness derivatives, actual property and personal fairness.
After leaving Goldman Sachs in 2020, he moved on to function the CFO of an actual property enterprise firm. There he gained expertise in debt financing, monitoring efficiency of proprietary investments in actual property and personal equities, and managing back-office capabilities. Presently, he’s a enterprise capitalist, giving monetary recommendation to all kinds of start-up corporations.
Teruaki has a bachelor’s diploma in Economics from Rikkyo College and an MBA from Waseda Graduate College of Finance, Accounting and Regulation. He’s a CFA Charterholder and has additionally handed the US CPA examination within the state of Washington.
Companions
In an age of particular person excellence, MetaSolare is constructing a Web3 world with companions throughout {industry} boundaries.
Associate Firms (As of July 2022)
ABEJA, Inc.
Avex Artistic Manufacturing unit Inc.
Avex Applied sciences Inc.
HashPort Group (HashPort Inc. HashPalette Inc. HashBank Inc.)
Ucollex Worldwide Restricted
Extra companions to be introduced.
