Alibaba Cloud Sets Up Japan Blockchain Lab For Game Developers
Alibaba Cloud has announced the launch of a new blockchain lab in Shibuya, Tokyo in partnership with Skeleton Crew Studio. The lab is set to serve as an incubation hub to help Japan game developers explore business opportunities in the Web 3.0 era. It will be open to some customers and hackathon participants who are working on collaborative projects with Alibaba Cloud. Engineers from partner companies specializing in Alibaba Cloud and blockchain will provide technical support locally, and developers will provide regular seminars, workshops, and networking events.
Alibaba Cloud will launch a blockchain laboratory in Shibuya, Japan in April this year to help Japanese game developers explore more business opportunities in the Web 3.0 era. In addition, Alibaba Cloud announced later this year that it will launch blockchain node services in…
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Gaming Ecosystem Scaling Solutions
Developers will have access to Alibaba Cloud’s Web3 partner ecosystem, including Safeheron, NodeReal, and COCOS-BCX, which are all scaling solution providers for the Web3 gaming ecosystem. The developers will also have the opportunity to experiment in test environments on each of these project ecosystems.
Alibaba Cloud will also hold regular events, including a Web2023 global hackathon event named “HAPathon 3” and a blockchain game hackathon “#asobiHack_Tokyo”. The Web 3.0 Hackathon Campaign, dubbed HAPathon 2023, is backed by Alibaba Cloud’s Hong Kong-based end-to-end digital asset financial services group and Web 3.0 infrastructure provider HashKey Group, a privacy computational network.
#asobiHack_Tokyo Web 3.0 Game Hackathon
The Web 3.0 Game Hackathon, named “#asobiHack_Tokyo”, is aimed at Japan game creators. The total prize money for #asobiHack_Tokyo is 350.200 million yen, and the final winning team will receive a cash prize of 3 million yen, as well as a co-marketing opportunity with Alibaba Cloud. The hackathon participants can attend various Web<>Lab events and seminars provided by Alibaba Cloud and use partner solutions for free.
As the world’s leading IaaS and PaaS provider, Alibaba Cloud is committed to providing robust, secure, and high-performance technology platforms and intelligence tools that empower Web 3.0 developers around the world to build their own applications. Alibaba Cloud and JP Games, a leading Japan development studio, have jointly launched a series of new services to create realistic virtual spaces and avatars for global customers who challenge virtual spaces.
Japan’s Thriving Web3 Community
Unique Song, Country Manager of Alibaba Cloud Japan, said that the strength of content development and cross-industry digital technologies, especially in the gaming space, has increased opportunities in Japan in the thriving Web3 community. She further added that the company wants to provide Japan Web3 developers with a robust, secure, and high-performance cloud infrastructure, technology platform, and intelligence tools to help customers and developers build their own applications in areas such as gaming, the metaverse, and social media. The company will also provide resources, events and networking opportunities through Japan’s new blockchain lab to help customers capture new business opportunities in this exciting Web3 era.
