Animoca Brands Japan has partnered with RootstockLabs to introduce Bitcoin-native decentralized finance tools to Japanese corporations. The collaboration aims to localize and deploy Rootstock’s institutional program for the Japanese market, enabling companies to manage Bitcoin as part of their corporate treasury strategies securely. Rootstock is a Bitcoin sidechain secured by Bitcoin’s total hash power through merged mining, supporting Ethereum-compatible smart contracts.

The partnership between Animoca Brands Japan and RootstockLabs will focus on helping Japanese companies manage Bitcoin as part of their treasury operations and exploring Bitcoin-based financial tools and services built on Rootstock. They will assess the use of Rootstock-based assets like Rootstock Bitcoin (rBTC) and Rootstock Infrastructure Framework (RIF) to improve treasury efficiency while complying with Japan’s regulatory framework. Animoca Brands Japan may offer these services through its Digital Asset Treasury Management Support Service.

Japanese companies are increasingly interested in holding Bitcoin as a long-term strategic reserve. Metaplanet is the largest corporate adopter of a Bitcoin treasury strategy in Japan, holding 35,102 BTC worth about $3.09 billion. Other publicly traded Japanese companies with significant Bitcoin positions include NEXON Co., Ltd., Remixpoint, and Anap Holdings Inc. Top 10 Japanese Bitcoin Treasury firms are listed on BitcoinTreasuries.NET.

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