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SORAMITSU News
2021.09.01
SORAMITSU shortlisted in Global Central Bank Digital Currency Challenge
— A handful of industry leaders were recently selected by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to design the financial infrastructure of the future
Press Release
2021.08.13
In a move to reduce US dollar use, Cambodia implements a Digital Currency using SORAMITSU technology
— "Bakong" currency use has gained popularity due to the increase in use of digital payments
Press Release
2021.06.18
多人数向けサイバー空間サービスキット 「PEGASUS WORLD KIT」Epic GamesのUnreal Engineを活用し、JCB、ソラミツと共に提供へ
— JP GAMES株式会社は、株式会社ジェーシービー、ソラミツ株式会社とともに2021年下期よりEpic Gamesのゲームエンジン Unreal Engine上で実行される、企業向けサイバー空間サービスキット「PEGASUS WORLD KIT」の提供を開始します。
Press Release
2021.06.18
SORAMITSU Teams Up With JCB and JP GAMES to Create the "PEGASUS WORLD KIT" Using Epic Games' Unreal Engine
 — JP GAMES INC., together with JCB Corporation and SORAMITSU Co., Ltd. will begin offering the PEGASUS WORLD KIT, a digital service kit for enterprises developed using Epic Games' Unreal Engine, which will arrive in the second half of 2021.
Press Release
2021.05.21
SORAMITSU is partnering with Fly ANA and Hajime Tabata of JP Games on their new ANA NEO initiative!
 — Prominent global partners will join the project to offer audiences worldwide with travel and shopping experiences while also featuring realistic digital renderings of real world locations

Press Release
2021.04.27
The Rise of Decentralized Exchanges on Polkadot
— Check out this amazing article on Forbes to learn more about our groundbreaking economic technology
Forbes
2021.04.19
Nobuyuki Idei, Former Chairman of Sony Corporation, Appointed as an Advisor to SORAMITSU
— Promoting the resolution of social issues around the world with blockchain technology from Japan
Press Release
2021.02.24
SORAMITSU Wins FinTech & RegTech Award for Pioneering Payment System
— Together with the National Bank of Cambodia, SORAMITSU has built the world's first blockchain-powered national payment infrastructure
Press Release
2021.02.05
Today is the fifth anniversary of SORAMITSU.
Over the last five years, a lot has happened! Just 2020 alone was a jam-packed year of work and many successes. To summarize the achievements of the past five years, Makoto Takemiya wrote the following blog post
SORAMITSU Blog
2021.02.02
Your 2020 Year in Review: SORAMITSU, SORA, Polkaswap and Fearless Wallet
The first month of the new year, 2021, is over now. Last year, 2020, was an interesting year by any standard, but we worked hard. To summarize the achievements of the year, we wrote the following article.
Medium
2020.12.15
Everything You Need To Know About Cryptocurrency's Next Big Thing: Decentralized Finance
When it comes to crypto, DeFi is here to stay.
Entrepreneur
2020.12.15
Uniswap tops $50B in lifetime volume, but where's it coming from?
Leading Ethereum-based DEX Uniswap has now crossed the $50 billion mark in lifetime volume, although some are skeptical about the sources of the platform's liquidity.
Cointelegraph
2020.11.25
SORAMITSU Releases Fearless Wallet
— The DeFi Wallet for the Kusama and Polkadot Networks that Anyone Can Use
BTC Manager
2020.10.28
Kingdom of Cambodia Launches Central Bank Digital Currency, Co-Developed with Fintech Company SORAMITSU
In use nationwide since July 2019, and recognized with a Central Banking Award in October 2020, the Bakong system will act as the backbone of the Cambodian payment and settlement infrastructure.



Press Release
2020.10.21
Introducing KAGOME, a C++ Implementation of the Polkadot Host
Press Release
2020.08.25
代表取締役社長 宮沢和正 がBG2C FIN/SUM BBに登壇
2020年8月24日、日本経済新聞社と金融庁が主催し、ブロックチェーン（分散型台帳）などをテーマに議論する国際会議「BG2C FIN/SUM BB (フィンサム BLOCKCHAIN & Business)」にソラミツの代表取締役社長 宮沢和正が登壇しました。
日経新聞『フィンサム開幕　デジタル人民元を警戒、「楽観視できず」』
2020.08.24
ソラミツとアスピレイション、ブロックチェーンとセキュリティを活用したDXサポートサービスにおいて業務提携
View Aspiration Press Release
2020.07.24
There's a new, cutting edge payments system operating in ASEAN.
—The country behind it might surprise you
Tech for Impact
2020.07.18
Introducing Polkaswap — a DEX for the Interoperable Future
Medium
2020.07.09
Soramitsu Labs CEO Kamil Salakhiev presents our Bakong project to the Prime Minister of Russia

ПЕРВЫЙ КАНАЛ
2020.06.30
SORAMITSU to build Polkaswap — a fast decentralized exchange for the Polkadot ecosystem
SORAMITSU is starting work to contribute to the open-source code base for Polkaswap, a decentralized exchange to provide the Polkadot ecosystem with a fast and efficient, self-custodial token swapping infrastructure.
Press Release
2020.06.30
Soramitsu Starts Testing 'White Tiger' Digital Currency in Japan
A Nikkei article states that Soramitsu will start testing its 'White Tiger' digital currency for retailers at a university in Fukushima.
Cointelegraph
2020.06.24
Digital Currency for Financial Inclusion: What We Learnt (or not) From Bakong White Paper
Medium
2020.06.24
Watch the Parity & Friends online meetup, where you will hear talks about Substrate from Parity and Polkadot from SORAMITSU
Crowdcast Video
2020.06.23
カンボジア、デジタル通貨のホワイトペーパー発行──日本企業が開発、米ドル脱却を目指す
Coindesk Japan
2020.06.22
Cambodia among world leaders in developing digital currency
National Bank of Cambodia moving towards implementing pilot domestic project.


The Asset
2020.06.18
Soramitsu Japan CEO Kazumasa Miyazawa recently made a presentation about CBDC at the Japanese Blockchain Association
JBA Article
2020.06.10
In this episode of the BlockHash Podcast, Makoto Takemiya joins to discuss Soramitsu and how they are creating blockchain-based financial solutions.
The Blockhash Podcast
2020.05.23
What Cambodia's Project Bakong tells us about the trajectory of Central Bank Digital Currencies. Bakong was developed in collaboration with Soramitsu.
The Block Crypto
2020.05.20
Why Cambodia is eager to launch its own DLT-based digital currency — or whatever you want to call it.
The Block Crypto
2020.03.23
We've released Hyperledger Iroha 1.1.2 today. Patch release fixes MST memory consumption and also adds a great feature for quick-starting a failed node, and includes some infrastructure improvements to make Iroha more stable and comfortable to use.
Github
2020.02.28
New release of Sora — 1.5.1 — is available in PlayMarket and AppStore! Now invitation links are static, so you have a personal invitation link which you can reuse (e.g., for posting on twitter, etc.). We localised the mobile apps — now you can choose the language in the Profile section! You can help as to translate the app (in terms of both number of supported languages and translation quality) — please reach out to us to help out!

We are also happy to inform you that soon we will open the testnet again for our community to encourage testing of SoraNet-Ethereum bridge. Stay tuned!
2020.02.25
Scotland's reputation as a global fintech base has been enhanced after hosting a visiting delegation of sector leaders from Japan.
Scottish Enterprise Media
2020.02.21
How Fintech Startups Are Disrupting the Payments Industry. Last year, Japan-based Soramitsu rolled out a next-generation payment network that enables real-time payments online and via smartphones. The venture's blockchain platform is faster, cheaper and addresses development issues such as when people are "unbanked." In Cambodia, for example, 78 percent of the population over 15 years old do not have access to banking services. In six months, the platform enrolled thousands of real users.
Yahoo Finance
2020.01.31
Filecoin has announced two additional implementations of the Filecoin protocol: forest – being implemented in Rust by ChainSafe, and fuhon – being implemented in C++ by Soramitsu. These implementations are in active development, and are now fully open for anyone to use or contribute to. Check them out on GitHub!
Filecoin.io Article
2020.01.30
Cambodia Readies a Blockchain-Based Digital Currency. Known as "Project Bakong" and first trialed by NBC in July 2019, Bakong was designed by the Japanese blockchain company Soramitsu. CEO Makoto Takemiya told CoinDesk that the CBDC "is simply a tokenized version of the USD and Riel fiat money in NBC's reserves."
Yahoo Finance
2019.11.07
The Bakong project is receiving more and more attention. Check out the newest publication about it.
2019.10.18
We are pleased to announce the release of the Sora XOR Token!
2019.10.14
Soramitsu architect Yuri Vinogradov lectures on the ecosystem around HL Iroha at Blockchain Life Moscow.
2019.10.14
The Soramitsu team attends Hyperledger Bootcamp Moscow to represent HL Iroha community.
2019.10.02
Soramitsu CEO Ales Zivkovic introduces Bakong at Cambodia FinTech Day 2019.
2019.09.12
Soramitsu wins the "Future of Financial Services" award on Tech Rocketship Awards, held by the British Embassy in Japan and the Scottish International Development Agency.
2019.09.06
Kazumasa Miyazawa lectures on digital identity and eKYC at ACAMS international AML meeting in Tokyo.
2019.09.04
Makoto Takemiya presents Soramitsu projects and leads discussions about blockchain and digital currencies at Fintech Regtech Global Summit in Singapore.
2019.08.18
Makoto Takemiya presents a speech on "Kagome: A C++ Implementation of the Polkadot Runtime Environment" at Polkadot Dotcon conference in Berlin.
2019.08.02
Makoto Takemiya participates in lightning talk about Soramitsu and Hyperledger Iroha at the Hyperledger Global Leaders Meetup in Tokyo.
2019.07.30
Makoto Takemiya and Kazumasa Miyazawa present an analysis of use cases for Hyperledger Iroha and its application for starting a financial and information revolution at the Hyperledger Member Summit in Tokyo.
2019.07.17
We are happy to announce that project Bakong in collaboration with the National Bank of Cambodia has been successfully tested with real money since the 17th of July and is showing great results!
2019.07.03
Nikkei publishes information about the Soramitsu development office in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima.
2019.06.20
Ales Zivkovic, CTO of Soramitsu, attends Malaysia Blockchain Week and presents on how to use blockchain for next generation financial services.
2019.05.28
Soramitsu and BCA Bank cooperate to complete a proof-of-concept for the potential use of blockchain in compliance procedures using Sora Identity Solution.
2019.05.15
NewsWire publishes press release about Hyperledger Iroha v 1.0.
2019.05.14
Soramitsu CEO Makoto Takemiya presents an idea of a stable coin based on XOR token at IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency conference in Seoul, South Korea.
2019.13.05
Aleš Zivkovic, CTO of Soramitsu, gives an overview of Iroha and how DLT can be used in organizations at the Consensus Conference, organized by Coindesk in New York, USA.
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