In an inspiring testament to the growing magnetism of blockchain technology, the Japanese blockchain developer, HashPort, has recently achieved a successful funding round, securing a hefty sum of 1.2 billion Japanese yen (approximately $8.5 million). The funding round was led by high-profile contributors, including Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and renowned Japanese billionaire entrepreneur, Yusaku Maezawa. The latest funding shot resulted in HashPort’s total funding vaulting to a significant 2 billion yen.
Drawing upon this generous capital, HashPort aims to fortify its existing operations, fortify its compliance management system, and develop a team equipped to handle the evolving global regulatory framework central to their envisioned expansion.
The operational breadth of HashPort includes two primary components – Blockchain consulting and system solutions, and HashPalette, a public chain tailored explicitly towards nonfungible tokens (NFTs). The company’s prospective offerings also include an ambitious metaverse game, ‘The Land Elf Crossing’, scheduled for release in the fourth quarter.
In another exciting development, HashPort has expressed intentions to cooperate with Expo 2025, a grand event slated for Osaka, Japan. The envisioned collaboration is proposed to drive the development of digital wallets and digital passports linked to soulbound tokens (SBTs).
Previously, in July 2021, Palette Chain, HashPort’s subsidiary, partnering with a cryptocurrency exchange, Coincheck, carried out Japan’s first initial exchange offering (IEO), involving the exchange facilitating the initial coin offering. This pioneering IEO raised an impressive 22.45 billion yen in commitments for the Palette (PLT) tokens, furhter boasting an impressive growth of their official NFT marketplace, PLT Place, which has a user base of over 370,000 individuals.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, in December 2022, showed interest in exploring practical uses of SBTs, in partnership with HashPort. The digital asset firm and SMBC plan to research the potentials of SBTs, originally introduced by Ethereum’s co-creator Vitalik Buterin, with an emphasis on their meaningful use for communities, jobs, knowledge-sharing services and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).
While the floodgates of funding for blockchain-based organizations like HashPort evidently remain open, apprehensions about the project’s scope and the intricate regulatory landscape loom in the backdrop. Will the promising future of the technology be realized, or will blockchain’s potential succumb to stifling impediments of regulation and complexity? Only time will tell.
Source: Cryptonews
