Entertainment Blockchain Company MetaSolare Announces New Project for “MusicFi”, “AnimeFi” and “GameFi”

MetaSolare is a new Web3 startup for “MusicFi”, “AnimeFi” and “GameFi”, whose co-founders include DJ Steve Aoki and Masato Matsuura, Chairman of Japanese Entertainment Company Avex. Today, the company made its official launch, releasing details about the upcoming Web3 project, which are available on the official website.

The world is on the verge of a paradigm shift from Web2 to Web3, and new genres of entertainment that take full advantage of NFTs and tokens are beginning to gain widespread use. But this new era needs a new type of thinking, and a new open architecture where the users have the power and are involved in making the decisions.

Adapting to this revolution requires more than just knowledge of the entertainment industry: it requires knowledge of blockchain and the financial world as well. MetaSolare has brought together experts from all these industries to form a completely new type of Web3 entertainment project.

These experts include co-founder DJ Steve Aoki, one of the most well-known members of the crypto community, as well as Masato Matsuura, the chairman of Avex, one of Japan’s largest media and entertainment companies. Together, they are proud to work with the MetaSolare Blockchain Ecosystem.

Project Vision

Building a new entertainment ecosystem requires three things: blockchain technology that allows users to own digital content, financial elements to allow for a sustainable content-centric economy, and gaming technology that enables interactive communication at scale.

MetaSolare is not a project that uses content and IP only as instruments for financial investment. Instead, it fuses these three elements in a way that enables completely new entertainment experiences in anime, games and music, where everyone involved can create them together.

■Game Fi

The words “Play to Earn” and “Play and Earn” are often used when talking about Blockchain games. MetaSolare seems to go one step further, to a society where games are part of everyday life.
In this world, anyone around the world can become a “co-creator”, helping to build a new future for gaming in any number of ways and from any number of locations. Their passion for the game can become assets both tangible and intangible.

To make this possible, MetaSolare works with a team of developers who have experience creating some of the biggest video game titles in the world. Together they want to build a better world powered by games, a dream that everyone can work towards together.

■Anime Fi

Combining anime and blockchain opens up new opportunities for users to get involved with animation in a variety of ways. The MetaSolare project combined NFTs, tokens and technology to create a completely new form of animation in sync with users and creators.

The experience of digitally owning a piece of your favorite anime can offer a variety of new experiences and open the door to a whole new funding model. And Metasolare will be there to offer you that world.

■Music Fi

NFTs and tokens are a powerful tool for connecting artists and fans, enabling new types of ownership and ways to support creators. These new tools will change how music is made and how stars are born.

MetaSolare will create crypto-native music artists, backed by DAOs and NFTs. MetaSolare token and NFT holders will have the opportunity to be directly involved in the artist’s future: for example, token and NFT holders will help hold auditions to pick new artists and talents and help them get ready for their big debut, with live streams held at regular intervals to show how far they’ve come.

MetaSolare’s team has deep connections in the global music scene, and especially in Asia. MetaSolare co-founder Steve Aoki is one of the most famous DJs in the world, and co-founder Masato Matsuura is the chairman of Avex, one of Asia’s largest entertainment companies. These deep connections make them uniquely positioned to make the next generation of crypto-native music a reality.

Core members

MetaSolare’s core members are a group of leading experts from the entertainment, blockchain and financial industries, who have come together as individuals to create a way to provide entirely new forms of entertainment, building a new economy together with users and creators.

KENTARO BEPPU (Managing Director / Co-Founder)

Former national general manager of a large Japanese restaurant chain, and founder of his own IT marketing company. He is a well-known member of the Japanese investment community, promoting financial literacy under the name “Ken Jinguji”.

ASAHI IWANAGA (COO / Co-Founder)

Asahi is Chief Operating Officer of MetaSolare, and former President and CEO of Avex Technologies. Previously, he spent three years publishing games on Steam for an international game publisher. He worked as a product manager in the broadcast/VOD entertainment industry at a NASDAQ listed company. Asahi also attended college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before helping found an e-commerce service at a Silicon Valley startup in 1999.

As of 06/24/2022, to focus full-time on the MetaSolare project, Asahi left the role of President of Avex Technologies and now serves as Avex’s Web3/Blockchain Technology Advisor. As COO for the project, he will be involved in all important decisions.

MASATO MATSUURA (co-founder)

Founder of Avex, one of Japan’s largest entertainment companies. A hugely important figure in the history of modern Japanese music, he was instrumental in bringing dance music into Japan and has many connections with DJs and celebrities around the world.

STEVE AOKI (co-founder)

With nearly 3 billion music streams to his name, Steve Aoki is a true visionary. Billboard described the 2x-GRAMMY-nominated artist/DJ/producer and Dim Mak Records founder as “one of the most in-demand entertainers in the world.” A true renaissance man, Steve Aoki is also a fashion designer, author and entrepreneur.

TSUBASA MURAKAMI （CLO / Co-Founder）

A certified M&A Senior Expert and a certified Business Succession Senior Expert with the Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs. In 2016, he started investing and building investment funds, participating in financing projects worth more than two billion USD in total. He now uses his experience working with lawyers and tax accountants both in Japan and abroad to increase corporate value through business development studies and M&A advisory services.

SEIHAKU YOSHIDA (co-founder)

Seihaku Yoshida founded HashPort, Inc. in 2018 and ran the company as president. He has helped support a number of projects such as IOST, Enjin, Qtum, Tron, Tezos and others in their efforts to expand into Japan. In 2020, he founded and ran HashPalette, Inc. as an NFT subsidiary of HashPort. HashPalette conducted Japan’s first IEO in 2021, attracting 22.4 billion yen for a billion yen offering.

ROBERT TRAN (co-founder)

Director and CEO of Animoca Brands Japan. Formerly VP of Experian, he went on to found several companies including iClick Interactive, the largest digital marketing automation platform and SaaS solution provider in Asia, UNDONE, an industry-leading D2C company for customized watches, and UCOLLEX INTERNATIONAL, a next generation creator platform using blockchain technology .

TAKASHI HATANAKA (Co-Founder)

Spent 23 years at Goldman Sachs, working in some of the most important divisions, including the proprietary trading division and the Asian division for equity derivatives and quantitative trading. Full-time director and managing director of a bio-venture company.

SHINICHI HISAMATSU (CTO)

After obtaining a master’s degree in media and management from Keio University, Shinichi Hisamatsu studied computer science and human-machine interface as a researcher at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies (University of Tokyo), as well as at the MIT Media Lab and Keio University School of Nursing and Medical Care.

A passionate supporter of startups and cutting-edge thinkers, Shinichi has used his technical expertise to help several companies launch successfully.

He is an expert in a wide range of digital technologies, including web development, mobile applications and blockchain.

In his previous role as CTO of Zen Global Limited, Shinichi built a blockchain-based donation platform and auditing service for charitable foundations, NGOs and NGOs in Malaysia, the UK and several other countries.

He is currently the CTO of Theo Design and Aipro Inc, and researches methods of using digital technology to support entrepreneurs at Aoyama Gakuin University.

Teruaki Asano (CFO)

Teruaki joined Goldman Sachs’ finance department in 2005. Over the next 15 years, he was responsible for overseeing the P&L, balance sheets and valuations of financial products in fixed income, equity derivatives, real estate and private equity.

After leaving Goldman Sachs in 2020, he went on to serve as CFO of a real estate company. There he gained experience in debt financing, monitoring the performance of proprietary real estate and private equity investments, and managing back office functions. Currently, he is a venture capitalist, providing financial advice to a wide variety of start-ups.

Teruaki holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Rikkyo University and an MBA from the Waseda Graduate School of Finance, Accounting and Law. He is a CFA Charterholder and has also passed the US CPA exam in the state of Washington.

Partners

In an age of individual excellence, MetaSolare is building a Web3 world with partners across industry boundaries.

Partner companies (from July 2022)

Avex Technologies (gaming)
HashPort (blockchain technology support)

More partners will be announced.

HashPort (blockchain technology support)
UCOLLEX INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
ABEJA Inc.