Astar, Startale Labs announce Web3 partnership with Japanese telecom giant, KDDI 

Singapore-based Astar Community and Startale Labs have entered a memorandum of understanding with Japanese telecom agency KDDI to speed up societal adoption of blockchain know-how and innovate buyer experiences within the “Web3 period.”

• The partnership will discover new enterprise alternatives in token know-how and functions of Astar Community’s Ethereum scaling resolution, the Astar zero-knowledge Ethereum Digital Machine (zkEVM) in KDDI’s “αU” market.
• KDDI’s “αU” consists of Web3 providers resembling “αU market” and “αU pockets,” which permit purchasers to handle and commerce digital belongings.
• With over 50 million subscribers in Japan, KDDI is a telecommunications big serving 60 cities and 100 areas all over the world.
• Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, has proven help for digital finance and Web3 adoption in Japan to reinvigorate the economic system in what he has referred to as “new capitalism.” He stated non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) may help help Japan’s nationwide technique dubbed ‘Cool Japan’ to draw funding and broaden the economic system.