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The essay discusses the growing trend of tokenizing non-financial real-world assets (RWA), particularly in Japan, highlighting various innovative projects that utilize blockchain technology across sectors like agriculture, art, and sustainability.

Fiat, especially stablecoins linked to the US Dollar, are one of the most practical applications born from Practical Blockchain technology. In Japan, where "USDC" has entered the market, expectations are growing for the emergence of stablecoins linked to the Japanese Yen and the creation of their use cases. Stablecoins have been utilized as a means of payment in transactions of cryptocurrencies and in countries where financial infrastructure is lacking. However, Japan has a very high bank account penetration rate and is an advanced market with well-established financial regulations. Cashless means such as electronic money and credit cards are also widely accepted. In such Japan, what kind of use cases will stablecoins create in daily life and

N.Avenue club Summit featured presentations by 19 companies focusing on Web3 implementation. Topics included education, digital assets, and AI. The event showcased innovative approaches to Web3 utilization across various industries.

The evolution of digital assets is changing the financial landscape, with JP Morgan leading in tokenizing assets. The rise of security tokens in Japan is discussed at a recent roundtable event by N.Avenue club, focusing on the impact on financial strategies of Japanese companies.

Moves to hold Bitcoin as an asset are spreading to Japanese companies. One of the pioneers is Remix Point, a Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard-listed company that is involved in energy, resilience, and medical businesses. Announced the purchase of a total of 1.5 billion yen in cryptocurrency on September 26, 2024, and purchased approximately 750 million yen worth of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others the following day on the 27th. Subsequently, they continued to make purchases, and most recently announced the resolution to purchase "2 billion yen worth of cryptocurrency" on January 30, 2025. This will bring the total investment amount from September to 10 billion yen. On February 3 and 4, they each purchased 500 million yen worth, and at the time of writing this article, the cryptocurrency holdings amounted to 9 based on the acquisition price.