{"id":257160,"date":"2026-01-29T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/257160\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:00:14","slug":"blockchain-startup-startale-races-to-create-ip-platform-to-guard-against-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/257160\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain startup Startale races to create IP platform to guard against AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/cryptocurrencies\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cryptocurrencies<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Japanese entrepreneur and CEO of Singapore-based venture talks up collaboration with Sony, SBI<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20251205 Sota Watanabe Interview\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Sota Watanabe, CEO of Startale Group and founder of Astar Network, speaks with Nikkei Asia in Tokyo on Dec. 5. (Photo by Yuji Murakami)<\/p>\n<p>JADA NAGUMO<\/p>\n<p>January 29, 2026 11:10 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Singapore-based blockchain startup Startale Group is looking to strike gold not only in finance but also in the entertainment sector, as it rushes to develop a digital ledger for intellectual property through its partnership with Sony Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrencies Japanese entrepreneur and CEO of Singapore-based venture talks up collaboration with Sony, SBI Sota Watanabe, CEO of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,1650,5232,33738,131516,111,139,69,3545,16511,148251,1037,145],"class_list":["post-257160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-blockchain","tag-create","tag-guard","tag-ip","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-platform","tag-races","tag-startale","tag-startup","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}