Animoca joins Antler to bring Japanese anime, manga IP onchain

Animoca Brands has teamed up with Antler’s firm innovation arm, Ibex Japan, to motorboat a dedicated Web3 amusement concern money aimed astatine bringing Japan’s anime and manga intelligence spot (IP) onchain.

The announcement was made connected Tuesday astatine the WebX league successful Tokyo, Animoca Brands revealed successful a station connected X.

Animoca’s co-founder and chairman, Yat Siu, elder advisor Keyvan Peymani, and Ibex Japan spouse Sandeep Casi outlined the task during the conference, according to a study by Japanese crypto quality outlet CoinPost.  

Per the report, Casi noted that “90% to 99% of Japan’s IP is lying dormant connected the shelves and has large value.” He added that Antler’s planetary reach, which includes 22 cities, $1.2 cardinal successful assets nether management, and a web of 250,000 entrepreneurs, positions the inaugural for planetary scale.

Source: Animoca Brands

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Japan IP propulsion goes beyond gaming

Sui said that Animoca already has a “presence successful Japan done ABKK,” its Japanese subsidiary. “This concern is astir expanding Japanese IP globally,” helium added, noting that the effort goes beyond gaming and volition besides people fintech, healthcare and medtech applications.

Casi and Peymani volition enactment arsenic co-general partners of the fund, which volition licence underutilized Japanese IP and backmost the instauration of caller Web3 products and services. The brace program to denote archetypal targets successful the coming months.

Siu said the timing is optimal, citing the resurgence of NFTs and stronger integer plus markets. Data from NFT Price Floor showed that the wide NFT marketplace capitalization peaked astatine $9.3 billion connected Aug. 13, up 40% from July’s $6.6 billion.

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Kraken meets SEC unit to sermon tokenization

Meanwhile, successful the US, crypto speech Kraken held talks with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force to sermon its plans for a tokenized trading system.

As reported, a memorandum filed Monday showed SEC unit met with representatives from Kraken’s genitor company, its securities arm, and lawyers from WilmerHale, focusing connected regulation, ineligible requirements and the imaginable benefits of tokenization.

Kraken launched its tokenized stock work connected May 22, allowing non-US investors to commercialized US equities astir the clock, portion Robinhood introduced a akin work successful Europe connected June 30. Kraken besides announced this week that it has expanded its tokenized banal offering to the Tron blockchain.

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