The largest Web3 & AI summit in Japan, TEAMZ Summit 2025, will be grandly held and is confirmed to return on April 15-16, 2026.

TEAMZ Summit 2025 attracted 10,000 participants, including side events, and Japan's largest Web3 and AI Summit was a complete success. The 2026 event has been confirmed. (Synopsis: "TEAMZ Summit 2025" creates its largest scale, and the future of Web3 and AI converges in Tokyo) (Background supplement: TEAMZ Summit 2025 update: 4/16-170,000 people gather in Tokyo to explore the future of Web3 and AI industry) This article is a press release, written and provided by TEAMZ, and does not represent the position of the moving area "TEAMZ" held at the Hills Forum in Tokyo Toranomon on Thursday, April 17, 2025 The second day of the Web3/AI Summit 2025 came to a successful conclusion. This article will review the main forum content of TEAMZ Summit 2025 in a concise form, giving you an overview of the latest developments and future developments in Japan's Web3 and AI ecosystem. 9:30 Web3 and AI open up Tokyo's digital economy Speaker: AIRIE のぶこ (Member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, Deputy Representative, Tochin Dai-ichi Kai-shek / TOKUMIN Dai-ichi Kai-no-kai) The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to accelerate the development of the digital economy in the Tokyo metropolitan area with Web3 and AI as the core under the slogan "Fusion of Tradition and Innovation." Specific strategies include: operating the Tokyo Innovation Base (TIB), a start-up co-creation base, and providing financial support through public-private joint funds; A large-scale international event "SusHi Tech Tokyo" is held once a year to promote business negotiations and global publicity; Promote financial innovation through the Tokyo Finance Awards and support the issuance of security tokens to achieve the sophistication of the capital market; Establish a "Japanese model" for AI applications, and improve the governance system from three perspectives: administrative utilization, dialogue with residents, cultivation of domestic models, and improvement of service standards for Tokyo citizens. Through these measures, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government aims to foster unicorns, attract global companies, and build a secure and open Web3/AI ecosystem. 9:45 Mirrored Body's Self-Sovereign Society – AI × Web3 Speaker: HIGUCHI Yuya (Director of Biometrics and Vision AI and Web3 Thought Leader at NEC) Kyowa MIYAGI (Director of Macnica DX Advisory Management Department / Outside Director, Sustainability Hall 2025 Co., Ltd. / Macnica Co., Ltd.) Kotaka Kimura (Representative Director / Sustainability Hall Co., Ltd. 2025) Yoichi Ochiai (Associate Professor, Junami University / 2025 Japan International Expo (Osaka, Kansai Wanbo) Theme Project Producer / Sustainability Hall Co., Ltd. 2025) Aro Kondo (CEO and Co-Founder / THXNET.) Moderator: Yuya Higuchi With the idea of "null2" (Body), the iconic pavilion of the Kansai Expo in Osaka, this session explored a social vision that allows individuals to reclaim their data sovereignty through AI × Web3. In this vision, each person will have a conversational, changeable "avatar" that can visualize various personal data such as health checks, food records, and social media postings, and make life suggestions. The system behind it relies on TX Lab's dedicated L1 chain and SBT technology to make identity and behavior records belong to the person, and at the same time realize the operation mode of free gas fees. In addition, the system is planned to support My Number KYC and hardware wallet linkage, so that large-scale deployment does not rely on user perception of the blockchain. The recommendation of advertisements and services will be mediated by AI agents and must be authorized by the person, which gets rid of the mechanism of "closed" user data of traditional platforms, realizes the "loosely coupled" value exchange between enterprises and individuals, and constructs an empirical experiment of the so-called "self-sovereign society". 10:15 The Future of Web3 Funds: New Investment Approaches and Capital Flows Speakers: Tony Gu (Managing Partner / NGC Ventures) Akio Tanaka (Partner/Infinity Ventures Crypto) Yoann T. (Co-Founder / Wintermute) Takashi Hayashida (Managing Partner / Taisu Ventures) Ryo Umezawa (New Business Development Division and Overseas M&A Division / Vector Inc.) Angela Tong (Chief Marketing Officer / Jsquare) Moderator: Angela Tong Since the boom in 2021, the Web3 capital market has shown a situation of "unilateral rise of Bitcoin + stagnation of altcoins", and the fundraising of venture capital has contracted at the peak compared with the valuation of the project. Funds have become cautious in their contributions, shifting from quantity to quality, and the investment style has shifted to "flight to quality". There is a polarization of current sources of capital: institutional investors returning due to ETF approvals – funds are concentrated in BTC; Retail investors participating through channels such as Robinhood – concentrated in ultra-small market cap coins (meme coins). Asia, especially Japan, is seen as central to the next cycle due to its increasingly sophisticated regulatory framework. Japan's yen-denominated stablecoin method, coupled with the entry of large players such as SBI and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is driving a series of practical projects. Financing methods are becoming more and more diverse, including: token + share warrant combination model, post-listing over-the-counter (OTC), token swaps, etc. Investors are no longer relying solely on "tokenomics" but are placing more emphasis on equity rights and long-term liquidity strategies. The next round of focus includes the combination of decentralized avatars (DIDs) and "AI × cryptocurrencies." At the same time, projects that are profitable or committed to solving social problems are receiving higher valuations. Partnerships and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) cases with Japanese companies have also continued to increase. The future of Web3 funds lies in building a sustainable ecosystem by channeling money into compliant infrastructure and linking "smart money" and community money across regions and sectors. 10:45 Big Enterprise Strategies for the Web3 Future: Adoption and Challenges Speaker: AKAISHI Tomoya (Chief, Product Marketing Manager, Web3 Promotion Section, Digital Transformation Planning Department / Sony Bank Co., Ltd.) JUNHEI JUNBAYASHI (Director of Web3 Promotion Department / KDDI Co., Ltd.) Yasuhiro SAOGI (CIO and Executive Director / Rakuten Wallet Co., Ltd.) Akira MASUZAWA (Co-Director, Advanced Content Business (IoTv Center) / TV Asahi) MURATA Zhuoyu (Head of Web3 Business Development / GREE Holdings Inc.)...