Thank you for subscribing! Apologies for the delay of the letter this week.
I’m Obi( @obnty ), the founder of NodeTokyo, the first tech-focused international blockchain conference in Japan and the dev/student blockchain community CryptoAge.
On to this week’s update covering the happenings mainly from June 11-17, 2019.
💱Exchanges
MoneyPartners has acquired Coinage, aiming to get another crypto exchange license and start operating by April 2020 - Link
💼Enterprises
Nomura Holdings and Nomura Research Institute has announced to establish a joint venture to develop a platform for blockchain-based securities in August 2019 - Link
Sony Music has adopted Amazon Managed Blockchain for developing an infrastructure to manage music rights - Link(JP)
Mitsubishi Electric and 100 other major manufacturer in Japan have formed a consortium to develop blockchain-backed data sharing platform - Link
👋Meetups / Events
Ethereum Japan to organize a first meetup towards Devcon on July 8th
📝Sidenotes / Others
BTC has hit 1 million Japanese Yen on June 16th, after over a year
That’s all for now. See you next week! - Obi
Japan Blockchain Ecosystem Landscape - April 2019 Edition
You can check out the past issue #1 from here.