The results are in...
Congratulations to our ETHOnline 2026 finalists! 🎉
👝 LeekWallet
⚖️ Novi Corpus
🥸 TARE
🤖 OpenBook
💂 Cordon
🧫 Petri
🧰 OnchainRouter
🎮️ ETH Arcade
Here's what our winning teams shipped ↓
Startale's vision connects Japan's yen liquidity to globally accessible onchain markets.
@takatezu of @StartaleGroup at Pragma Tokyo: "Make financial markets programmable, regulated, and globally accessible without making users feel like they are using crypto."
Japan's next step in tokenization is fully onchain markets that connect domestic issuers with global capital.
Eiji Kobayashi (@EK35511047), Japan Country Head of @Securitize, makes the case for public blockchains and 24/7 cross-border trading at Pragma Tokyo.
“The code, the legal rights, and actual workflow have to agree. That is the work of bringing institutional finance onchain.”
At Pragma Tokyo, @masa_web3, Founder & CEO of @Secured_Fi, shares lessons from JGB repo on designing infrastructure that institutions can actually use.
A new partnership for Japan’s fintech ecosystem, announced at Pragma Tokyo 🇯🇵
@hinzaasif of @AWAJ_Official and @kosuke_eth of @suzupay_fi are teaming up through AWAJ Ventures to expand SuzuPay, strengthen its path to market, and build the next wave of fintech products for Japan.
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ETHGlobal Tokyo mentors are all over the hackathon floor for day 2.
got a bug? weird technical question? need someone to tell you if your idea actually makes sense?
these are your folks.
JPYC launched less than a year ago.
HashPort Wallet already reports over ¥1B in monthly onchain payments, with its MCP now enabling AI agents to initiate payments.
@seihakuyoshida of @hashport_io on “From Self-Custody to Everyday Use” at Pragma Tokyo 🇯🇵
“I'll leave you with this: Interfaces can be beautiful, they can be disposable. Software can be disposable. But authority is critical, and we cannot make that disposable.”
@JeffInTokyo of @curvegridinc at Pragma Tokyo on "From Vibe-Coded Demos to Production Money"
“AI machines are really good at finding answers based on past objective facts. But when there are many moving parts and uncertainties – we, as humans, need to make the decisions.”
Yoshimasa Satoh, CEO of @AlpacaHQ Japan, at Pragma Tokyo on agent-first, onchain financial markets.
What does it take to make digital assets feel trusted and usable at scale?
Tatsuya Yamada, President of @Rakuten_Wallet, shares his perspective at Pragma Tokyo 🇯🇵
“It’s actually the absence of regulation that encumbers genuine founders who want to build real things for the real world.”
@armaniferrante, Founder & CEO of @Backpack, at Pragma Tokyo on “When Markets Never Close: Finance for a Global Internet"
"Japan's FSA is more supportive of crypto, tokenized equities, and onchain finance. Regulators now understand the technology and its risks."
@YuzoKano, CEO of @bitFlyer, on Japan’s Next Crypto Chapter at Pragma Tokyo 🇯🇵
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