{"id":309266,"date":"2026-01-29T05:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309266\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T05:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:40:15","slug":"blockchain-startup-startale-races-to-create-ip-platform-to-guard-against-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309266\/","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.europesays.com\/ie\/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<strong> <\/strong>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":309267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,13850,8534,18,67178,19,53771,17,7227,151380,151379,934,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-309266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-blockchain","12":"tag-create","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-guard","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ip","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-platform","19":"tag-races","20":"tag-startale","21":"tag-startup","22":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115976786678678002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}