{"id":179946,"date":"2023-10-24T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T07:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=179946"},"modified":"2023-10-24T13:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T07:30:02","slug":"astar-startale-labs-announce-web3-partnership-with-japanese-telecom-giant-kddi-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/astar-startale-labs-announce-web3-partnership-with-japanese-telecom-giant-kddi-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Astar, Startale Labs announce Web3 partnership with Japanese telecom giant, KDDI\u00a0 &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Singapore-based Astar Network and Startale Labs have entered a memorandum of understanding with Japanese telecom firm KDDI to accelerate societal adoption of blockchain technology and innovate customer experiences in the \u201cWeb3 era.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The partnership will explore new business opportunities in token technology and applications of Astar Network\u2019s Ethereum scaling solution, the Astar zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM) in KDDI\u2019s \u201c\u03b1U\u201d market.<\/li>\n<li>KDDI\u2019s \u201c\u03b1U\u201d includes Web3 services such as \u201c\u03b1U market\u201d and \u201c\u03b1U wallet,\u201d which allow clients to manage and trade digital assets.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>With over 50 million subscribers in Japan, KDDI is a telecommunications giant serving 60 cities and 100 locations around the world.<\/li>\n<li>Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, has shown support for digital finance and Web3 adoption in Japan to reinvigorate the economy in what he has called \u201cnew capitalism.\u201d He <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/forkast.news\/fumio-kishida-nft-dao-cool-japan\/\">said<\/a> non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) can help support Japan\u2019s national strategy dubbed \u2018Cool Japan\u2019 to attract investment and expand the economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore-based Astar Network and Startale Labs have entered a memorandum of understanding with Japanese telecom firm KDDI to accelerate societal adoption of blockchain technology and innovate customer experiences in the \u201cWeb3 era.\u201d The partnership will explore new business opportunities in token technology and applications of Astar Network\u2019s Ethereum scaling solution, the Astar zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[235,203,210,234,231,232,237,238,236,233],"class_list":["post-179946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-currency","tag-elon-musk","tag-ethereum","tag-hyperledger","tag-ibm","tag-mining","tag-nodes","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179947,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179946\/revisions\/179947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}