On July 13, 2018, Metaps Inc. (“Metaps”) announced its plan to start an ICO platform business to further expand its finance business in global markets.

Metaps, Inc. (“Metaps”) joined Japan’s Blockchain Collaborative Consortium (“BCCC”) (*1). BCCC was inaugurated with objectives that included spreading and building awareness of blockchain technology (*2), promoting its research and development, encouraging related investments, and collaborating with overseas blockchain organizations.

On July 18, 2017, Metaps, Inc. announced its plan to launch a new service called “Timebank”, a real-time trading service for “time”. The service is scheduled to begin in this Autumn and pre-registration process for “time issuer” has started.

Metaps (Tokyo, Shinjuku-Ku, President: Katsuaki Sato) is a company that supports the monetization of apps by utilizing data analysis and artificial intelligence. Space Shift (Tokyo, Minato-Ku, President : Naruki Kanemoto) is a company that has made use of microsatellites in space business development. Starting from today, Thursday, October 30th, 2014, these two companies will undertake joint research into a system that makes use of microsatellites and big data analysis to understand changes taking place on Earth.