
Noritaka Okabe
BuilderCrypto· Japanese
Founder and CEO of JPYC, issuer of Japan's first yen stablecoin. A serial entrepreneur who started his first company while studying economics at Hitotsubashi University, he founded JPYC in 2019 to put the yen on public blockchains — first as a prepaid instrument, then from 2025 as Japan's first FSA-approved yen stablecoin under the funds-transfer framework. He is vice-chair of the Blockchain Collaborative Consortium and was named Person of the Year (Japan) at the 2021 Blockchain Awards.
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