The Japan Blockchain Affiliation’s 4th annual Blockchain Award offered the Product of the Yr award to Astar Community, the multichain good contract platform. On the identical occasion, Sota Watanabe, the founder, and CEO of Astar Community, acquired Individual of the Yr for a second straight 12 months.

In a survey performed by the Japan Blockchain Affiliation (JBA), Astar Community and Sota Watanabe each got here out because the favorites of the Japanese Web3 neighborhood. With 171 members, together with bitFlyer, Coincheck, Microsoft, GMO, EY, Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Toyota, and ConsenSys, the JBA is the most important blockchain affiliation in Japan.

Astar Community is the main Layer-1 chain in Japan. It permits builders to create interoperable dApps as a parachain of Polkadot. It permits cross-consensus messaging (XCM) and cross-virtual machine messaging (XVM) for each EVM and WASM good contracts.

Sota Watanabe is helping the Japanese authorities because it strikes forward by integrating Web3 into its total plan. Moreover, Sota was included on the Forbes 30 Below 30 listing for Japan and Asia. He’s featured on the quilt of the latest challenge of Forbes Japan and has been named one in all Japan’s high entrepreneurs.

For builders and companies serious about researching the Japanese Web3 market, Astar Community is the go-to blockchain. Regardless of Japan’s rigorous itemizing necessities, it is usually the primary public blockchain from the nation to be listed there. The Japanese authorities has acknowledged Astar’s native token, ASTR, as a cryptocurrency, not a safety.