Sota Watanabe
@WatanabeSota
Followers
62,854
Following
1,326
Media
1,169
Statuses
8,959
CEO @StartaleHQ Founder @AstarNetwork . All things for “Web3 for billions.” Japanese: @Sota_Web3 Hiring at
Earth
Joined March 2015
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
東京15区
• 128390 Tweets
FINALLY FIND BIU
• 81501 Tweets
Tottenham
• 73578 Tweets
Spurs
• 70846 Tweets
立憲民主党
• 62890 Tweets
衆院3補選
• 58404 Tweets
島根1区
• 57452 Tweets
Will Jacks
• 54878 Tweets
衆議院補欠選挙
• 54475 Tweets
当選確実
• 44924 Tweets
#ホロドロケイ2024
• 34975 Tweets
#TOTARS
• 34304 Tweets
自民全敗
• 32441 Tweets
須藤元気
• 25659 Tweets
Love poem
• 23674 Tweets
Gunners
• 23609 Tweets
#RCBvsGT
• 22693 Tweets
政権交代
• 22369 Tweets
投票率の低さ
• 20415 Tweets
Kai Havertz
• 17999 Tweets
私のドリームユニット
• 17619 Tweets
Ange
• 16552 Tweets
解散総選挙
• 14840 Tweets
ارسنال
• 14668 Tweets
IVE SWITCH TOMORROW
• 11145 Tweets
クリーク
• 10346 Tweets
Legendary Japanese artist, Yoshitaka Amano’s Candy Girl NFTs are coming to
@AstarNetwork
.
I have 5 whitelist spots to share.
1. Follow
@candygirl_nft
&
@AstarNetwork
2. Like & RT this tweet.
I will DM 5 random winners.
317
973
1K
Probably the biggest announcement we made so far. I am extremely excited to announce that Sony is going to make Sony's blockchain together with
@StartaleHQ
, a spin-off company from
@AstarNetwork
through the joint venture between us. This can be the game changer in web3, and here…
122
356
1K
We have been working with
Toyota (the largest company in Japan)
SONY (2nd largest company in Japan)
NTT (4th largest company in Japan)
We are speaking with top of top companies in Asia. What's next? What company or products do you want to see in web3?
91
152
777
SONY. One more step closer to becoming the chain backed by Japan🇯🇵
Excited to launch the joint program with Sony Network Communications, a business company of the Sony Group to nurture web3 projects on Astar by using Sony Network Communications’ resources
34
197
754
TOYOTA💪 I am extremely excited to announce that Toyota, the largest company in Japan sponsored their first web3 hackathon on Astar and developers will make DAO toolings for Toyota’s 330,000 employees.
The total reward is $100k. Join the hackathon 🌟
40
200
738
Yesterday we hit $1.3B TVL. And today, we hit $1.6B (added $300M in a day) In TVL, we own 54% of Dotsama Parachains. LFG 🚀
23
97
557
Tokenized Pokémon card is coming on Astar zkEVM
#PACKS
is pleased to announce that we have adopted the
#AstarzkEVM
blockchain (
@AstarzkEVM
,
@AstarNetwork_JP
) for our services🤝.
It allows all NFT collectors to experience our servicing transactions faster and with lower fees ✨.
#NFT
#NFTCommunity
#pokemoncard
2
51
200
34
149
679
Astar became the largest Polkadot Parachain and the most enterprise adopted chain in the ecosystem after 2 years development. We plan to announce Astar2.0 Supernova at Token2049. Hope we can make it.
23
87
633
Big update. We just activated dApp staking, the basic income system for developers. We are making an "Apple Store" for the multichain era and you can see and learn dApps on our portal. More and more dApps will be deployed shortly.
50
144
591
We are going to reconsider our token economics. Personally, I would like to implement a less inflationary model and burning mechanisms. This initiative will start the next week, and we will try to update it by the end of Q3.
42
129
608
Something will be born in a month 👀 Expect high Japanese quality 🤝
58
110
606
I am going to leave Japan soon. One thing I was surprised about is that Astar is getting very popular here. Hope Astar will be onboarded in the Japanese market, one of the 3 biggest markets in the coming months, and deliver its value. Next, I am going to Singapore and the US.
38
94
599
Binance enters Japan and Binance Japan announced the first list of tokens they will list. And ASTR is included. Glad to work with Binance Japan.
15
101
605
This is the new architecture of Astar2.0. Both Astar powered by Polkadot and Astar powered by Polygon will co-exist. We will have only $ASTR token. There won’t be any dilution.
We are here to make web3 for billions and make Astar (ASTR) the reliable network.
35
116
578
I am honored to be on the cover of the latest issue of Forbes Japan! Thanks for the Christmas gift
@forbesjapan
🎁
Astar is getting a lot of tractions and recognition in Japan. We keep building and try to lead web3 in Japan.
68
73
581
Amazing news!! Japan Airlines (JAL) issues NFT on Astar zkEVM 🛫
The utilities are one of the best ever. NFT holders
get exclusive experiences not commonly found through regular tourism guides. See more from
46
287
582
I saw IBM Q in San Francisco.
サンフランシスコで量子コンピューターみたけど、多分黒いボックスの中に中にこれ入ってるのかな。
11
290
559
Have been requesting to the Japanese government for 3 years and today, they announced that Japanese venture capitals are finally able to invest in tokens. More funds come to web3!
This is a huge win. I am glad Japanese government supports web3 startups.
26
100
576
The Japanese prime minister’s office published my interview just now.
I emphasized that Web3 is the next innovation and from the Japanese perspective, this is a significant opportunity to pursue.
We will lead Web3 in Japan and beyond.
32
106
562
Sony Bank plans to launch stablecoin and Sony plans to launch a blockchain with us. It is getting ready.
ソニー銀行、ステーブルコインの発行に向け実証実験
ゲームやスポーツなどソニーグループが持つ知的財産を使ったビジネスで、決済手段としての活用を検討します。
6
99
348
28
132
568
Astar next 2-3 months
☑️ Astar zkEVM mainnet launch
☑️ Astar zkEVM launch campaign (information has not been released yet, but you will be surprised)
☑️ Astar Token Economics 2.0
☑️ Startale Labs will release new products.
Stay tuned and we keep building.
24
104
543
1/
@AstarNetwork
teams up with NTT DOCOMO, the largest internet provider in Japan (roughly 37% of Japanese are using DOCOMO and generating $40B in revenue annually), and agreed to make web3 use cases together.
Let me explain why it is important for us.
17
149
531
I am extremely excited to announce we launch Astar zkEVM, an Ethereum L2 powered by Polygon CDK.
This is the first Ethereum L2 integrated to Polygon Agg layer. Our new chapter has been started toward the mass adoption of web3 🔥You will see more DApps and enterprise adoption!
We're thrilled to announce the official launch of Astar zkEVM!
Astar zkEVM is an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution leveraging
@0xPolygon
's zero-knowledge technology and is also the FIRST chain to integrate the revolutionary AggLayer.
🌐:
125
2K
2K
22
117
550
Thrilled to announce that Microsoft supports our incubation program and provide their infrastructure for selected projects.
On Monday, we welcomed Coinbase. And today, Microsoft started supporting our program. Let’s build 🚀
0
111
515
This year, I will be more focusing on enterprises adoption. I will do my best to bring big enterprises to Astar and Polkadot.
31
65
512
Historical moment!
@AstarNetwork
just became a Polkadot parachain together with
@AcalaNetwork
@MoonbeamNetwork
@ParallelFi
and
@clover_finance
.
Let's make history together!
54
109
520
Some of amazing Japanese manga and anime NFTs will be deployed on Astar. Super excited. Astar may become a top NFT chain in the future.
33
104
526
Thank you very very much all 44606 people for supporting
@AstarNetwork
! We won the 3rd auction. This is our day1. Let's make the fundamental protocol of Web3.0 together!! WAGMI!
Congratulations to
@AstarNetwork
on winning Polkadot's third auction!
Astar will be onboarded at block
#8179200
[Dec. 18] at the beginning of lease 6 with the other first 5 auction winners. Over 27.1K network stakeholders locked up DOT in favor!
229
671
3K
38
92
510
It is an absolutely bad day for people in the crypto. I joined this space back in 2016 and have had at least 4 bear markets. What I learned is that a great project is built under a terrible market. Luckily, We have funds for 10 years developments.
We survive and we will win⭐️
5
101
525
I just posted a proposal to list SDN (
@ShidenNetwork
native token) on
@KaruraNetwork
Swap and open SDN/kUSD pair.
20
103
504
Gm everyone! Astar hits $1,500,000,000 TVL in the weekend. Let's go!
26
78
494
Do you know Astar Japan Lab? More than 130 companies, including AWS Japan, Microsoft Japan, SoftBank, MUFG, Seven Bank, and local governments, are in the Lab and trying to make real-life use cases together. We will lead web3 in Japan and more to come!
13
114
507
Cosmos is coming to Astar thanks to
@oct_network
.
The point is that this is NOT an EVM bridge but a Cosmos<>Polkadot native bridge, meaning that the ALL Cosmos chains will be connected to Polkadot through Astar Network. Beyond EVM. We bet against chain-maximalism 🤝
The
@cosmos
and
@Polkadot
bridge is coming🌉
@oct_network
delivered the first milestone.
All blockchains in the Cosmos ecosystem including
@terra_money
,
@cryptocom
,
@osmosiszone
,
@InjectiveLabs
, etc. will be interoperable with Polkadot through Astar🚀
45
298
1K
0
97
503
Big update⭐️After Sony,
@StartaleHQ
, the core dev company behind
@AstarNetwork
successfully closed another $3.5m funding from UOB Venture and Samsung Next at the extension round and raised in total $7m at the seed round. We are now backed by Asia.
37
124
517
.
@Plasm_Network
just won the Parachain auction and became the 2nd Rococo Parachain. Thanks for your supports.
Our
@ShidenNetwork
will join the Kusama Parachain auction once it is ready.
27
119
482
After Supernova, I believe more enterprises join our ecosystem and I am very sure that Astar will have the largest market share in Japan. Then, we will expand from here to Asia and Middle East in 2024. In the later 2024, we will enter the US with a lot of real life use cases🤞
26
119
487
We made it. Today we hit $2,000,000,000 TVL. Thanks, everyone for joining our ecosystem. Let's grow together!
22
90
473
Very very long tail. Fewer and fewer people care about Polkadot auctions. Polkadot needs another momentum.
88
53
492
Ethereum <> Astar zkEVM bridge has been launched! We delivered ☑️
18
77
492
We will make an announcement later officially.
JR, the largest train company in Japan that used to be the national train company, decided to issue NFTs on Astar Network today. More adoption is coming.
26
76
471
We raised $22M led by Polychain, followed by Alameda, Capital, and other amazing investors.
Also, I am delighted to be backed by industry leaders like Dr. Gavin Wood, Keisuke Honda, and Richard Ma. Let's make Web3.0 with us.
22
88
471
The Japanese government officially removed the tax on unrealized gain of crypto assets for all Japanese companies yesterday. Now it becomes much easier for companies to have crypto assets. Next topic to discuss is the individual tax on crypto.
14
88
476
Mazda comes to Astar zkEVM! This is big!
🚗
@Mazda_PR
, a renowned global automotive company, is unveiling its distinctive NFTs as part of "Yoki Origins" on Astar zkEVM, powered by
@0xPolygon
CDK.
With symbolic significance, it's not just a first step but potentially the start of a captivating series. Infused with…
25
112
507
15
97
487
Through Toyota hackathon, more than 100 projects will be deployed on Astar. And through SONY incubation program, we will nurture more than 15 selected DApps on Astar. Likely we will see 115+ applications in the coming months :)
22
99
472
A 7.6M massive earthquake hit Japan (Ishikawa Prefecture) today. Fortunately, all of Astar's Japanese members are safe. For the Japanese and all the people who were affected by the disaster, Astar's Japanese team started a charity fund to support people.…
25
98
480
I gave a talk at Keio University (I graduated from this university in 2019). More than 400 students participated in my session and learned Web3 and Astar. Hope more and more Web3 entrepreneurs will be born.
16
47
471
Deloitte just announced that Deloitte and the Sports Agency of the Japanese Government will use Astar zkEVM to develop their baseball NFT game. A proper English announcement will follow soon.
Big companies and even the government will use Astar zkEVM.
21
104
482
SONY has been a special company I have admired since I was a child. And we have a demo day of web3 incubation program by SONY and Astar on Sunday.
Today, SONY gave us this t-shirt for the event. This means a lot for me🙏
31
72
475
Astar Labs started working from yesterday. In January and February, we have several major updates, including Astar zkEVM, dApp staking v3, and token economics v2. We will try our best to ship them as soon as we can.
20
77
483
We are going to activate dApp staking, a developer’s basic income which is the most important killer feature in coming days. By making dApps on Astar, developers can get ASTR in stead of losing tokens by paying gas fees. Probably it is the best time to start developing DApps now.
21
124
443
I was fortunate to be invited to the dinner hosted by the prime minister of the Japanese government with prime ministers/presidents of ASEAN countries. It was very great experience seeing their behaviors with my own eyes at this age. And luckily the digital minister of the…
23
75
470
In addition, listing $ASTR in Japan means that the Financial Services Agency of the Japanese government officially recognized $ASTR as cryptocurrency, not security. This is also huge for us.
20
92
458
From tomorrow, $ASTR will be listed at a Japanese exchange and Japanese people will enter Astar officially. Super excited!! And to celebrate, we will occupy a full color 1 page of the Nikkei news paper, the most famous news paper and distribute NFTs to 2,610,000 readers.
30
87
458
I don’t need Rolex, sport cars and so on to make projects successful. All my time and funds would be used for our projects and stakeholders. I don’t have a car license and go back from Dubai with economy class :D This is just a normal behavior at Astar Foundation.
When founder
@WatanabeSota
of the projects keeps working, rather than showing all the Rolex, branded goods and sports car. ..
@AstarNetwork
is where my support will be
@Polkadot
projects has been working hard in building. .
2
5
65
39
50
457
Japan changes the laws in a good way for crypto again. Many VCs are incorporated in tax heaven, but VCs incorporated in Japan can directly invest in crypto.
"Japan seeks to allow certain VCs to invest directly in crypto and Web3 startups."
15
87
469
Internally, the launch date of Astar zkEVM was set yesterday. It is time to deliver.
30
69
465
Today is Sony. Tomorrow Astar2.0 Supernova. Stay tuned.
14
67
450
1/ Let me explain the reason why I am so bullish on crypto in Japan now. Japan is one of the most regulated countries. Maybe the most! Since it is very regulated, the negative impact of FTX and Terra is extremely low. We can say close to 0. Neither LUNA nor FTT is listed in Japan
55
88
447
Japan made web3 as the national strategy. After a year and half, I think Japan will changes the gear and the “national” level projects will be deployed. Coming weeks are the watershed moment. And we will do an essential role ideally.
19
78
448
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░ 80%
21
69
451
Fortunately, I had the opportunity to speak directly with the Minister of Finance, Government of Japan today in person. As a result, I am now more bullish on this year's Web3 in Japan.
37
84
431
Gm 🇯🇵market 😊We published an ad on Nikkei newspaper backed by 329 Japanese companies including the biggest bank, listed internet companies and web3 startups. Japan used to be the hub of crypto. As the leading L1 chain in Japan, we will push 🇯🇵 to the next level.
22
106
438
New! Native USDT is coming!
24
92
425
The Astar's network TVL exceeded $400m today with 20,000 stakers and dApp users. LFG 🫡
18
65
436
Phase 0: Become one of the top L1 chains on Polkadot (completed)
Phase 1: Become a chain backed by Japan. (ongoing)
Phase 2: Implement Wasm and onboard web2 devs. Become the global L1 chain (Future)
16
72
426
We will make many web3 use cases with big companies starting from Japan especially after Supernova which we will announce in September. Then we will export use cases with big companies to the US and other regions. We are on the right track.
12
87
437
Sony invests $3.5 million into layer-1 blockchain developer Startale Labs
5
63
432
Execution matters more than ideas. Will do my best to get things done. We are about to close the biggest deals.
31
70
426
The first top 100 projects in the Polkadot ecosystem, and we keep building. Look forward to Astar2.0 Supernova. We have been spending a lot of time on this.
35
61
431
LayerZero is coming 🚀
12
65
427
Exciting update! Astar Foundation works with
@H_KEY3
to have a global hackathon with MAZDA and Mitsubishi.
More and more global Japanese brands and companies are coming to web3 through Astar Network.
You can apply from 👇
19
110
430
Congrats to BTC and the whole industry! It is a big day!
15
40
430
Astar’s zkEVM team gathered in a place and is preparing for the launch. Astar has $1b marketcap but ser
@henskensm
booked an airbnb for 8 people and I sleep with
@shunp_w3
in the same bed to save money and use all for the growth. We are still day1 and still have to work harder.
43
40
423
I just spoke at Bloomberg news and shared my view on Web3 and policies of Japanese government. Let’s push Web3 forward.
29
52
424
We have officially confirmed internally at an all hands meeting today that we will make Astar2.0 Supernova, the most important update in this year public on 9/13 at Token2049. LFG!!
18
89
418
26
77
415
The market is tough. But, I decided to aggressively hire more people. Especially, we are looking for bizdev and marketing people in the US. We will make our US team double within 3 months.
23
70
411
Astar will be listed on Upbit, the largest crypto exchange in Korea. Astar has a strong presence here in Asia and I am excited to welcome Korean friends!
23
73
418
We are extremely excited to announce Astar zkEVM, an Ethereum Layer2 solution powered by Polygon’s ZK Rollups.
This new chain will be deployed in coming months. We will use Polygon’s ZK Rollups to achieve more.
💥 Supernova is here! 💥
We are excited to announce that we will work with
@0xPolygonLabs
!
Together, we will deliver Astar zkEVM: the Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution powered by Polygon's CDK.
Here,
@WatanabeSota
&
@sandeepnailwal
share this groundbreaking announcement.
124
363
1K
18
60
412
1/ I am very excited to start working with AWS team. Under this collaboration, projects in our programs are eligible to get up to $100k AWS credit and official technical support from AWS team.
11
90
406
Win. We secured another 2 years Polkadot Parachain slot. This makes a room to invest more time and money on innovation things.
🔥 We are excited to announce Astar Network secures a self-funded Parachain slot!
We are committed to the continued growth of our Astar Parachain and our passionate, amazing
@Polkadot
community!
32
98
579
13
65
415
Happy new year everyone. 2024 is a dragon year 🐉 in Asia. We will fly high but stay grounded.
27
45
418
Yes, you heard it right!
Astar zkEVM is live on mainnet 🙌
Astar zkEVM is the FIRST to integrate the
@0xPolygon
AggLayer 🥇
Shoutout to
@sandeepnailwal
,
@0xMarcB
, and the entire Polygon team. Also, a special shout-out to
@hilmarxo
,
@gitpusha
and the entire
@gelatonetwork
…
Today,
@AstarNetwork
is launching Astar zkEVM, a ZK-powered rollup built with Polygon CDK—and the first protocol fully integrated with the AggLayer.
This is big. It took a team of core devs at Polygon Labs, Astar Network, and Gelato to kick off the age of aggregation with a…
43
340
987
21
84
418
It takes almost a year to announce the joint venture with Sony Network Communications and the plan to make a blockchain together. It takes months to announce Astar zkEVM. These are not our random decisions. Every single decision is made to achieve Web3 for Billions. Once you get…
39
65
416
We are still in the early stage and haven't achieved anything yet. Let's work even harder to accomplish more for crypto mass adoption, the world where people use crypto and web3 just like the internet today.
#ASTR
25
67
417
Astar Network reveals ‘Astar 2.0 Vision’ to bring Web3 to billions of users.
Web3 for Billions.
8
90
407