The UNICORN CRYPTO PROJECT that Will BUILD the FUTURE of Internet | Sota Watanabe E62
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- CRYPTOCURRENCIES, ASTAR'S PLANS for the future, What is the Target for Astar, Big Collaborations, Pieces of Advice for CRYPTO Entrepreneurs and the Importance of Humbleness.. These are the Main topics Me and Sota talked about in the Episode 62 of the When Shift Happens Podcast.
Sota Watanabe is the founder of Astar Network, the #1 TVL Smart Contract Hub on Polkadot with Total Value Locked of $1.5B.
Sota Watanabe was born and grew up in Kawasaki-ku, Japan. He has a degree in economics from Keio University in Japan, after which he relocated to San Francisco, USA, to study and earn a certificate in the International Business Program.
While he was in San Francisco he made the most of his time in the San Francisco Bay Area by attending art and language exchange meetups and IT events in downtown San Francisco. He visited technology headquarters in SILICON VALLEY and completed an internship with Chronicled, a Silicon Valley start-up. In addition, Watanabe visited Apple, Google, and Facebook and left San Francisco to start his own company.
When Watanabe returned to JAPAN, he founded STAKE Technologies in January 2019, a technology company that provides blockchain solutions to enterprises. Stake Technologies became the first Japanese company to adopt BLOCKCHAIN acceleration, sponsored by UC Berkeley. Upon its establishment, Watanabe received an unprecedented four rounds of funding from the Web3 Foundation, which he used for further innovation. In the same year, he founded Astar, a multi-chain dApp hub on Polkadot that supports Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), WebAssembly (WASM), and Layer2 solutions.
For Astar, his company received six grants from the WEB3 Foundation founded by Gavin Wood, the creator of ETHEREUM and POLKADOT, and claims to have raised over $30 MILLION in the past two years, including $22 million in a funding round in January.
ASTAR supports the building of DECENTRALIZED applications (dApps) with EVM and WASM smart contracts and offers dApp developers true interoperability with cross-virtual machines (XVM) and cross-consensus messaging (XCM). The unique Build2Earn model of ASTAR empowers dApp developers to get paid through the ASTR (dApp) staking mechanism for the dApps and infrastructure they build.
Thanks to his knowledge and achievements, Sota became an advisory board member of the Business Intelligence for Global Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington. In 2022, he was selected for Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and Japan. In 2023, he was selected "100 Most Respected Japanese in the World" by Newsweek.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:42 Why Asia will Lead the Technological Advancement
07:13 Who is Sota Watanabe
12:03 The Mentality of an Entrepreneur
16:20 What does success look like for Sota Watanabe
18:30 Taxes & Happiness
23:02 Japanese Culture
25:41 Sota’s Revolutionary Project supported by Sony
34:20 Cryptocurrencies are still Small
39:53 The Importance of a Community in Crypto
44:43 Influence is Money
50:52 Sota’s Strategy for Success with his Company
1:01:46 Web3 is the best Niche for Young Entrepreneur
1:04:53 The Best Crypto Projects
1:08:15 The Power of Humbleness
1:19:09 Conclusion
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Sota knows what he wants and how to get there. Guys like him are the hope of WEB 3 and also a better future for our society!
Yes Sota is a one of a kind and gives hope in this Web3 wild west
Loved the part where Sota talks about his cofounder sleeping on the mattress when he visits him in SIngapore, despite the project being a Unicorn!
One of my favorite parts as well
Love to see humble, young, successful yet still hungry builders in crypto. Right values, right focus (Web2). Big future!
Couldn't agree more!
Have to agree here too. This is what we need especially the part about right value.
Amazing how Sota is able to give back to his University at such a young age!!
Pretty amazing indeed
It's reassurign to see brilliant and humble people in the wild west that is the crypto industry!
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Thanks for this podcast. Great value. Will buy more astar because I support and believe in sotas vision and morale values.
Astar and Sota are one of my big bets this cycle!
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Incredible episode with this young guy who I just discovered, thank you!
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What a great guest and great episode, loved it from the begininng until the very end
Thanks for watching
Love the part where he says he owns almost nothing and his bank account just grows and he doesnt care much
A good part for sure 😊
love to see sota wantabe
Thank you for watching!