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Tokyo Dome, chosen by Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, and the Dodgers, is Japan’s top stadium. Tokyo Dome City has 40 million yearly visitors, but most do not return, leading to suboptimal LTV.
Tokyo Dome Coin can turn up to 40 million annual Tokyo Dome City visitors into repeat customers. Our AI personalizes pricing and perks for each user — including on-site visitors — to maximize LTV.
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Tokyo Dome: Utility Tokens at the top stadium -powered by AI
Enter the amount of funding you are requesting in ADA
550000
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12
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What is the problem you want to solve?
Tokyo Dome, chosen by Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, and the Dodgers, is Japan’s top stadium. Tokyo Dome City has 40 million yearly visitors, but most do not return, leading to suboptimal LTV.
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No dependencies
Will your project's outputs be fully open source?
No
Please provide details on the intellectual property (IP) status of your project outputs, including whether they will be released as open source or retained under another licence.
We intend to open-source a significant portion of our project, including the codebase used to create blockchain-based communities with deployment on the Cardano mainnet (as referenced above). However, certain components will remain proprietary to safeguard user privacy and maintain system security. Specifically, we plan not open-source: Users’ sensitive conversational chat data Backend code that could expose potential attack vectors for malicious actors
Please choose the most relevant theme and tag related to the outcomes of your proposal
Entertainment
Describe your established collaborations.
Tokyo Dome City attracts an extraordinary 40 million visitors per year, making it one of Japan’s largest and most influential entertainment districts.
It includes:
• Tokyo Dome — a 55,000-seat stadium that has hosted world-class artists and teams such as Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, LA Dodgers, Coldplay, Michael Jackson, and many others.
• Korakuen Hall — Japan’s premier venue for boxing, wrestling, martial arts, and other live competitions.
• A diverse entertainment ecosystem featuring multiple event halls, a full amusement park, several natural hot-spring facilities, a large restaurant and retail zone, and the Tokyo Dome Hotel.
Please see this link for the proof of the partnership (MOU): https://bit.ly/49GTjO2
Tokyo Dome will provide one of Japan’s largest and most influential entertainment ecosystems as the environment where Cardano-based fungible utility tokens powered by AI will be introduced and expanded.
Tokyo Dome City draws 40 million visitors per year — roughly one out of every three people in Japan, equivalent to the combined populations of Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya. This concentration of foot traffic across live events, retail, hospitality, and entertainment creates an unparalleled environment for real-world token deployment.
Tokyo Dome is regarded as Japan’s most prestigious music venue — chosen by global icons such as Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars and considered the dream destination for virtually every major pop artist in the country. Korakuen Hall holds an equally unrivaled position in combat sports — widely regarded as the iconic home of Japanese combat sports — and Tokyo Dome City includes several other dream venues across multiple entertainment genres.
Anifie has spent the past three years building the relationship and business case with Tokyo Dome, meeting regularly with the Chairman and executives — a level of engagement that would take any external organization, including Cardano, years to reproduce.
On this foundation, the integration plan has been refined through more than a year of joint planning and formal presentations to Tokyo Dome’s senior leadership, including the Chairman, CEO, and the broader executive team.
We envision transforming the entire Tokyo Dome ecosystem into a token-based economy where individual enthusiasm influences pricing and perks. After a year of collaborative planning, this rollout plan has been formally presented to the Chairman, CEO, and executive team. Within this plan, Korakuen Hall — the iconic home of Japanese combat sports — is currently strongly expected to be included in the early implementation. This reflects the alignment and shared understanding that have emerged through the leadership-level planning process.
In parallel, we are preparing digital pathways. Tokyo Dome may support implementation through funding contributions, access to relevant IP, and coordinated participation in digital fan-engagement initiatives. The digital chat community will play a critical role in converting one-time visitors into repeat customers by delivering AI-tailored perks and benefits directly through our platform.
The early rollout at Tokyo Dome is expected to be followed by expansion into additional venues, services, and digital channels across its ecosystem, enabling Cardano to reach a broad, mainstream audience through both physical and digital touchpoints.
• Tokyo Dome, one of Japan’s most iconic and influential entertainment companies, provides high-impact, real-world utility for Cardano-based fungible tokens, enabling mainstream adoption through its large user base.
• Anifie serves as the AI and software provider, delivering the token infrastructure, personalized engagement engine, and integration technology that power the system.
Together, this collaboration connects one of Japan’s largest entertainment platforms with an advanced AI-driven Cardano application — creating a major opportunity for large-scale, real-world blockchain adoption.
Describe funding commitments.
Tokyo Dome has already provided extensive support for this collaboration and is preparing additional internal contributions that substantially exceed the size of the Catalyst request. These contributions reflect Tokyo Dome’s strong interest in exploring Cardano-based payments inside its ecosystem.
To date, Tokyo Dome and Anifie have jointly contributed or prepared the equivalent of well over JPY 150,000,000 in development, operational resources, and infrastructure support, including:
Anifie’s platform development — Over JPY 100,000,000 already invested into the AI, blockchain, and 3D infrastructure that this project uses.
Tokyo Dome operational and facility resources — Approx. JPY 15,000,000 for site access, testing, and on-site deployment.
Operational integration support — Approx. JPY 20,000,000 for payment-system integration work.
IP licensing and branding support — Approx. JPY 20,000,000, made available for use within the project.
Server, AI compute, and 50% of project-management labor — covered by Anifie.
Extensive prior analysis — More than one year of regulatory and operational review, involving about three external consultants at any given time and a five-member internal Tokyo Dome team, focused on confirming the feasibility of introducing digital payments inside Tokyo Dome City.
Tokyo Dome has also indicated that the value it intends to allocate toward utilizing the system is on the order of JPY 100,000,000, separate from the contributions listed above. Combined with Anifie’s prior development investments, this demonstrates the substantial scale of resources already deployed or prepared around this collaboration.
Catalyst funds will focus on the adoption-side components that partners do not cover:
legal clarification, user onboarding, payment deployment, KPI-based validation, and on-site activation inside Tokyo Dome City.
In effect, Catalyst provides approximately JPY 35,000,000, while Tokyo Dome and Anifie together contribute or allocate more than JPY 150,000,000.
This dramatically reduces Catalyst’s risk and enables Cardano to be tested and validated inside one of Japan’s largest consumer ecosystems.
Describe your key performance metrics.
The goal is to transform the entire Tokyo Dome ecosystem into a token-based economy. With 40 million visitors per year—roughly one out of every three people in Japan—even a conservative 5% conversion would already create about 2 million token users on-site. For context, Cardano has recently seen over 600,000 active wallets in a 30-day period, so a few million mainstream, non-Web3 consumers from a single venue would represent several times that scale (source: ChatGPT, citing Cardano wallet activity data referenced in ccn.com).
These 2 million users are only the starting layer.
Utility tokens used for payments can spread virally—much like PayPal or Venmo—but only if retention is high. Retention increases when users receive AI-tailored perks and benefits based on their digital identity and enthusiasm signals. Our chat platform has previously achieved ~40% Day-30 retention, and the same mechanism will be applied here. If users return and transact repeatedly, viral expansion beyond Tokyo Dome into its partner network becomes realistic.
To reach this outcome, we will measure the following KPIs:
These metrics show whether we are building a sustainable token-based economy in which enthusiasm, personalization, and real utility convert one-time visitors into repeat customers. Retention drives virality, repeated usage drives economic value, and together they determine whether millions of mainstream consumers can realistically onboard into the Cardano ecosystem.
Please describe your proposed solution and how it addresses the problem
Tokyo Dome Coin can transform up to 40 million annual Tokyo Dome City visitors into repeat customers. Our AI personalizes pricing and perks for each user—including on-site visitors—to maximize LTV.
Anifie has collaborated with Honda, Boehringer Ingelheim, TBS, and others. Our product was recently used at the World Championship Gymnastics event.
Examples of Past Projects (Fully Delivered)
These projects demonstrate our ability to deliver high-visibility, enterprise-grade deployments with strict timelines and compliance requirements.
Across our communities, we have achieved:
We have also partnered with Jane Lynch, Dick Van Dyke, and Shaun Martin (Snarky Puppy), leveraging their influence to drive engagement. Our team includes a Grammy Award winner, providing direct access to major influencers. Tony Hawk and David Foster have supported our PR efforts.
Tokyo Dome—selected by Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, and the Dodgers—is Japan’s top stadium. The annual visitors of Tokyo Dome City equate to one out of every three people in Japan. Yet only about 100,000 of these 40 million visitors return. This leads to low repeat engagement and suboptimal LTV. This project transforms Tokyo Dome City from a one-time destination into a personalized, AI-driven, repeat-engagement ecosystem.
Tokyo Dome Coin operates like “a stablecoin with dynamic pricing.” Visitors can purchase the token instantly inside the Tokyo Dome or Anifie app—without using an exchange. The token maintains a general 1:1 relationship with JPY, with a small allowable range, as strict pegging is not required under Japanese regulations.
A simple analogy explains the value model:
Tokyo Dome Coin is like airline miles—but powered by engagement, not just spending.
Instead of awarding static perks based solely on purchase history, users hold tokens, and their pricing and benefits adapt dynamically based on real engagement, including online behaviors such as chat activity inside our platform. All adjustments are driven by AI-personalized pricing using each user’s digital identity, which is stored securely on their own encrypted blockchain account.
AI-personalized pricing:
Users receive better pricing than paying in cash. Discount levels vary per user and are dynamically determined by our multi-agent AI based on each fan’s enthusiasm score.
AI-measured enthusiasm:
Generative-AI agents analyze chat activity and interactions to calculate each user’s “enthusiasm score,” which drives personalized perks, discounts, and benefits.
Broad utility across Tokyo Dome City:
The token can be used for stadium goods, exclusive merchandise, tickets (including premium seats), tipping, NFTs/SBTs, membership passes, food, retail goods (such as cosmetics), restaurants, hotels, hot springs, gyms, and more.
Frictionless purchase flow:
Users buy the token directly in-app using JPY, removing Web3 complexity and enabling mainstream adoption across 40 million annual visitors.
Built-in engagement engine:
By combining AI enthusiasm scoring with token-based incentives, the system deepens fan engagement, increases repeat visits, and drives ecosystem-wide ROI for Tokyo Dome City.
Please note that the name of the utility token may be changed from “Tokyo Dome Coin.”
Three major shifts now make this solution viable at scale:
Historically, utility tokens have struggled outside of exchange ecosystems (e.g., Binance) because mainstream users face obstacles:
Our approach overcomes these barriers:
To support mainstream adoption, the regulatory framework must prioritize ease of use. For the Catalyst-funded phase, the entire implementation can be delivered using only one token type: a Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI). A PPI can be purchased directly inside the Tokyo Dome app or the Anifie app, does not require an exchange account, and is already widely used across Japan for frictionless consumer payments.
In Japanese consumer and industry contexts, tokens issued under PPI may be referred to as “stablecoins,” even though strict 1:1 pegging is not required. For example, JPYC previously issued a PPI-based stablecoin. (Regulations have since evolved so that secondary trading of PPIs now requires issuer approval.) Consumers, however, naturally perceive these tokens simply as practical payment tools, not speculative assets.
By grounding the initial launch in a simple, adoption-first PPI structure—we deliver a regulatory-compliant, AI-optimized payment system that can scale from Tokyo Dome City to nationwide use.
Our long-term strategy is to begin with PPI for mainstream adoption, build user familiarity and comfort. This ensures regulatory clarity, smooth onboarding, and a sustainable expansion path for the entire ecosystem.
We will demonstrate clear project impact through:
These metrics validate early mainstream consumer adoption and provide measurable evidence that a Cardano-powered payment system can succeed inside one of Japan’s most visible entertainment ecosystems.
Globally, stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, and USDA have long been discussed as tools for everyday payments or for preserving value in volatile markets, yet mainstream adoption has remained limited. Japan’s clear regulatory framework finally makes it possible to implement this vision in a safe, consumer-friendly way.
Introducing a payment-oriented digital token inside Tokyo Dome’s 40-million-visitor ecosystem represents one of the world’s first real, large-scale demonstrations of digital tokens being used naturally by ordinary, non-Web3 consumers. This is not a pilot, a sandbox, or a crypto-native use case—it is a production deployment in one of Japan’s most active cultural and entertainment environments, where everyday visitors can use a digital token as intuitively as Suica or PayPay.
This deployment also begins laying the foundation for a more inclusive, behavior-driven economic model—one where personalized incentives and enthusiasm-based loyalty unlock repeat engagement at scale. The broader economic implications are discussed in the Impact section.
Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community
Tokyo Dome City provides one of Japan’s largest and most influential entertainment ecosystems, with 40 million annual visitors, a 55,000-seat stadium, Korakuen Hall’s year-round competitions, and retail, attractions, restaurants, and hospitality. Introducing Cardano-based utility tokens into this environment creates one of the first large-scale, real-world use cases for blockchain payments in Japan.
In practical terms, this means:
This demonstrates real utility in a live environment far beyond speculative crypto use cases.
Globally, stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, and USDA are often discussed as tools for everyday payments or as ways to preserve value. Yet mainstream consumer adoption — especially among non-Web3 users — has remained limited.
Japan’s** regulatory clarity **creates a unique opportunity:
the ability to deploy payment-oriented digital tokens safely, at scale, in an ecosystem visited by tens of millions. Tokyo Dome becomes the first real environment where such usage can occur naturally.
However, this project reaches beyond stablecoins themselves.
It begins introducing a more inclusive economic model that corrects structural imbalances in current markets.
The Structural Problem
Traditional economics maximizes consumer and producer surplus assuming a fixed demand curve. In practice, this leads to a system where outcomes are optimized for those with the highest purchasing power — effectively the top 1%, not the 99%.
Our Contribution: Enthusiasm as an Economic Variable
We introduce a new measurable variable: enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm — passion, loyalty, repeat behavior — is evenly distributed across society, unlike wealth.
With multi-agent AI and blockchain-based identity, pricing and services can adjust dynamically based on each person’s enthusiasm, maximizing that individual’s LTV. When this happens:
This is not theoretical:
AI-driven personalization effectively increases each individual’s willingness to return, turning casual visitors into loyal fans.
A More Inclusive Economic Structure
Under this model, people receive discounts, perks, and recognition not because they are wealthy but because they meaningfully contribute energy and engagement.
This creates a new kind of personal economic asset:
human engagement, not financial holdings.
A key requirement for this model is that users maintain complete control of their personal identity.
Consumers should not hand their behavioral data, chat history, or identity to centralized institutions.
Our architecture prevents that erosion of privacy.
We store identity-related data in sharded, encrypted fragments across multiple blockchains, ensuring:
This enables a mass-scale, personalized economic system without the surveillance issues that plague Web2 models.
This project brings substantial value to Cardano by:
Our measurement plan includes both early signals and long-term adoption metrics.
Initial Phase:
Deploy at a selected Tokyo Dome touchpoint (example: Korakuen Hall).
Measure:
Expansion Phase:
With Tokyo Dome’s support, scale across more venues, services, and/or digital channels.
Quantitative Metrics
Qualitative Metrics
Our outputs—including case studies, technical resources, and key learnings—will be shared with the Cardano community through open-source channels and through a dedicated project chat community accessible to Cardano members. This approach ensures broad access, encourages replication, and supports scaling across fandom- and venue-based projects.
To balance transparency with partner confidentiality, we will report performance insights and outcomes at an aggregate level—including total transaction volumes, access rates, retention, engagement, and overall LTV uplift. We will not disclose sensitive information such as individual community revenues or popularity comparisons, as doing so could create competitive or reputational risks for Tokyo Dome or other partners. Instead, detailed or sensitive data will be shared confidentially with the Cardano team upon request, ensuring accountability without compromising trust.
We will also provide:
What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?
We began developing our platform in 2019 and commercialized it in 2020. Since then, our technology has been deployed in real production environments with enterprise partners and has demonstrated strong performance.
Our traction includes:
These outcomes confirm that the platform is technically mature and ready for production deployment with Tokyo Dome.
Examples of Past Projects (Fully Delivered)
These projects demonstrate our ability to deliver high-visibility, enterprise-grade deployments with strict timelines and compliance requirements.
Tokyo Dome has conducted more than one year of internal and external review—working with a licensed attorney in Japan, multiple consultants, and a dedicated five-member internal team—to evaluate the operational feasibility of enabling digital payments inside Tokyo Dome City.
Tokyo Dome provides the scale and operational reliability required for mainstream blockchain adoption:
Tokyo Dome is consistently chosen by world-class performers and organizations, including:
This makes Tokyo Dome one of the most effective environments in Japan for onboarding millions of non-Web3 users and for validating Cardano-based consumer adoption in the real world.
Our AI-driven, closed-community engagement model has demonstrated:
This shows that our “enthusiasm → personalization → loyalty → spending” mechanism is repeatable and already validated in production environments.
We bring the necessary experience and partnerships:
Alumni of top-tier accelerator programs:
This network ensures we can deliver reliably and at the level expected for high-visibility enterprise partners.
We have successfully delivered multiple enterprise contracts and government-funded projects that required:
This track record demonstrates that we can be trusted to manage Catalyst funds responsibly.
Feasibility is strongly supported because:
Because the technology is production-ready, the partnerships are secured, and the deployment plan is incremental, the feasibility risk of this project is extremely low.
Tokyo Dome has also completed more than a year of regulatory due diligence, supported by a licensed Japanese attorney, several external specialists, and its internal task force, to confirm compliance pathways under Japan’s Payment Services Act.
Japan’s Payment Services Act enables a stablecoin-like payment token category known as Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPI).
For the initial launch, this project will adopt the PPI model—the same regulatory classification used by JPYC, one of Japan’s most widely recognized “stablecoin-equivalent” tokens.
Reference: https://jpyc.jp/
The PPI framework allows users to purchase tokens directly inside an app or website without a crypto exchange, making it significantly more accessible for mainstream, non-Web3 visitors at Tokyo Dome.
However, PPIs also come with regulatory constraints; they are extremely easy for consumers to use but more limited than what the global Web3 ecosystem typically describes as a “stablecoin.”
For this proposal, we focus exclusively on the mainstream-oriented initial PPI token, which provides the optimal balance of regulatory speed, consumer accessibility, and real-world deployability within Tokyo Dome City. Tokyo Dome expects to take a multi-token approach in future phases to balance consumer usability, regulatory speed, and the ability to remove certain PPI constraints.
Milestone Title
Product launch
Milestone Outputs
Output A — Product Launch
Product with the following functionalities:
Output B — Regulatory Document
A regulatory clarification supporting the launch, consisting of one of the following:
Clarification:
Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance Criteria for Output A
Acceptance Criteria for Output B
Clarification:
Evidence of Completion
Evidence for Output A
Evidence for Output B
Clarification:
Delivery Month
3
Cost
75000
Progress
30 %
Milestone Title
Initial transactions
Milestone Outputs
Output A — Verified On-Chain Transactions
Output B — Verified Token Purchase
Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance Criteria for Output A
Acceptance Criteria for Output B
Evidence of Completion
Evidence for Output A
Evidence for Output B
Delivery Month
5
Cost
100000
Progress
50 %
Milestone Title
At least 100 transactions
Milestone Outputs
Output A — Verified On-Chain Transactions
Output B — Verified Token Purchase
Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance Criteria for Output A
Acceptance Criteria for Output B
Evidence of Completion
Evidence for Output A
Evidence for Output B
Delivery Month
7
Cost
100000
Progress
70 %
Milestone Title
At least 500 transactions
Milestone Outputs
Output A — Verified On-Chain Transactions
Output B — Verified Token Purchase
Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance Criteria for Output A
Acceptance Criteria for Output B
Evidence of Completion
Evidence for Output A
Evidence for Output B
Delivery Month
9
Cost
100000
Progress
80 %
Milestone Title
At least 1000 transactions
Milestone Outputs
Output A — Verified On-Chain Transactions
Output B — Verified Token Purchase
Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance Criteria for Output A
Acceptance Criteria for Output B
Evidence of Completion
Evidence for Output A
Evidence for Output B
Delivery Month
11
Cost
100000
Progress
90 %
Milestone Title
At least 5,000 transaction volumes
Milestone Outputs
Output A — Verified On-Chain Transactions
Output B — Verified Token Purchase
Output C — Close-Out Video and Close-Out Document
Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance Criteria for Output A
Acceptance Criteria for Output B
Acceptance Criteria for Output C — Close-out video and Close-out document
(clarification) The utility token can also purchase NFTs. We are including token purchase transactions, payment transactions, and NFT transfer/mint transactions as transactions. This clarification applies to all milestones.
Evidence of Completion
Evidence for Output A
Evidence for Output B
Evidence for Output C — Close-out Video and Close-out Document
Delivery Month
12
Cost
75000
Progress
100 %
Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources
This is the most critical component of the budget.
Tokyo Dome has already spent over one year analyzing this regulatory pathway with attorney involvement, and based on that work, no material legal obstacles are expected. However, any stablecoin-like utility token issued for real-world consumer payments in similarly developed jurisdictions — such as Japan or the United States — requires legal costs of this magnitude, because compliance is the single most important requirement.
If compliance is imperfect, the token cannot launch and all Catalyst-funded work becomes unusable.
The legal work will be conducted by Masuda-sensei of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, one of Japan’s top financial-regulation attorneys and a former regulator.
This cost covers:
This legal work spans multiple milestones, because the project issues multiple token types (initial accelerated-launch token + second-generation token with expanded capabilities).
Note: The team may or may not choose to submit a todokede to the Kanto Finance Bureau, but this is not a dependency of the Catalyst project.
(Full cost = JPY 15,000,000; the remaining half is funded by Anifie.)
This covers coordination across:
Conducted by:
(USD 100,000 ≈ JPY 15,000,000; Catalyst funds only JPY 7.5M.)
Supports early KPIs:
20 community managers. This covers:
Allocated for Cardano network fees required for:
Led by Igor Khmel, covering:
Includes:
On-going QA for:
This represents over JPY 150,000,000 in co-funding, demonstrating deep enterprise commitment and sharply reducing the burden on Catalyst.
At today’s exchange rate, 550,000 ADA ≈ JPY 35,000,000. The exchange rate may fluctuate.
How does the cost of the project represent value for the Cardano ecosystem?
This project delivers one of the largest real-world adoption opportunities ever proposed in Catalyst — a Cardano-based payment system deployed inside Tokyo Dome City, an ecosystem with 40 million annual visitors. The requested 550,000 ADA (~JPY 35 million) unlocks a deployment that is co-funded by Tokyo Dome and Anifie at a level more than 4× larger than the Catalyst contribution.
The items requested from Catalyst — legal compliance, project management, tokenomics, user acquisition, and minimal QA/ops — are the only components that must be funded publicly to ensure transparency, regulatory soundness, and accountability.
Everything else is funded by Tokyo Dome and Anifie.
Tokyo Dome and Anifie are funding major cost items that are necessary for real deployment but not appropriate for Catalyst funding:
Total enterprise co-funding:
≈ JPY 165,000,000, over 4× the amount requested from Catalyst.
This demonstrates exceptionally strong enterprise commitment and de-risks the project for Catalyst voters.
The largest cost item — legal compliance — is aligned with norms in other developed jurisdictions such as the United States.
Any stablecoin-like payment token issued in a regulated jurisdiction requires this level of legal rigor. Without it, the token cannot launch, and the entire project fails.
Catalyst funding therefore protects:
This is value creation through risk elimination, which is essential for Cardano entering mainstream environments.
For ~JPY 35M in Catalyst support, the community receives:
This project establishes Cardano as:
Catalyst is not funding a speculative experiment. It is funding the portion of the project that unlocks:
With Tokyo Dome and Anifie absorbing over 150 million yen of the cost, the requested 550,000 ADA offers extraordinary value and delivers one of the highest-leverage proposals ever presented in Catalyst.
I confirm that the lead applicant is a verified legal business entity.
Yes
I confirm that the lead org has a ≥2-year track record, and the consortium collectively has ≥$5M in verifiable annual revenue.
Yes
I confirm that evidence of collaboration with a qualified Tier-1 enterprise is provided.
Yes
I confirm that the proposer and all team members are in good standing with prior Catalyst projects.
Yes
I confirm that the proposal is for mature R&D or integration, not an early-stage concept or core infrastructure.
Yes
I confirm that evidence of a mature product is provided, with a clear integration plan if not already on Cardano.
Yes
I confirm that all key partners, including the Tier-1 collaborator, are clearly identified.
Yes
I confirm that a clear statement of the partner's in-kind or financial contributions is included.
Yes
I confirm that the proposal provides verifiable references (e.g., LinkedIn, portfolio) for key team members.
Yes
I confirm that the proposal includes clear KPIs for adoption (e.g., transaction volume, user growth). Forecast for projected on-chain transaction volume is provided with adequate justification.
Yes
I confirm that delivery is ≤ 12 months with clear milestones.
Yes
I confirm that the proposal includes a co-marketing or community engagement plan to amplify Cardano's visibility.
Yes
I confirm that the proposal budget is for future work only, not for completed tasks. No incentives, giveaways, private treasuries and regranting are included in the budget.
Yes
I Agree
Yes
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoheiiwasaki/
Yohei started his career as a securitization attorney at one of Japan’s largest law firms before earning his MBA and MS at Stanford University.
He co-founded and exited mOasis; served as VP & Country Manager Japan for Kurion (acquired for $350M); and later became Vice President at Veolia (a Fortune 500 company with 20,000 employees).
He is also a frequent guest lecturer for Stanford GSB’s Path to Power course and a mentor for StartX and the Japanese government’s JETRO–StartX joint program.
For this project, Yohei oversees regulatory alignment, partner coordination with Tokyo Dome and banks, milestone execution, and overall delivery quality.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%E9%9B%85%E5%A4%AB-%E6%B8%A1%E9%83%A8-640a82302/
Former Head of AI at Fuji Xerox, Masao has led hundreds of enterprise AI implementations for Japan’s largest corporations.
He supervises AI deployment, personalization logic, and integration of user-engagement signals with the token-based perk system.
Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PTsijJmmg8y5_tNWN9Vm-dGX8O9lUARh/view
Former Barclays Capital engineer and founder/CTO of an NFT marketplace, Tang brings deep experience in blockchain integration, wallet design, and high-reliability system architecture.
He leads all Cardano integration, wallet logic, PPI-compliant token purchase flow, and security review.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnoetjen/
John is an award-winning producer whose work spans the Grammy Awards, Cannes, MTV Music Awards, Billboard, ABC, NBC, Disney, and Sony. He produced MC Hammer’s video with over 920 million views and served as Head of Entertainment for the U.S. presidential campaign of George W. Bush.
John manages day-to-day execution and operations for this project and contributes to high-profile partnership development.
His participation is secured under a signed agreement already used in our Japanese government co-funding approval.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ikhmel/
Stanford GSB graduate and founder of BankEx (once valued above $1B), Igor specializes in token economics and incentive design.
He supports the multi-token architecture (accelerated-launch token + second-generation token), ensuring regulatory consistency and maximizing user LTV.
We maintain a distributed engineering and QA team with experience delivering regulated payment flows, Web3 integrations, and production-grade consumer applications.
We also employ international community managers who support operational monitoring, user onboarding, and early-stage user interactions.
Roles include:
These roles ensure rapid iteration, multilingual support, and robust operational coverage.
Tokyo Dome is providing the real-world venue for deployment, making this one of the most significant enterprise integrations in Cardano’s history:
Tokyo Dome has already spent over one year conducting regulatory analysis with attorney involvement and supports the deployment environment, operational readiness, and coordination across its facilities.
All Tokyo Dome participation is secured and active; no additional recruitment is required.
This combined capacity ensures reliable delivery, low execution risk, and a project capable of setting a real-world precedent for Cardano adoption in Japan.