Datachain Wallet Passes Initial Screening in the Financial Innovation Category of the Tokyo Financial Award 2026
October 22, 2026
Datachain, Inc. (CEO: Tetsushi Hisata; hereinafter “Datachain”), which is engaged in building next-generation financial and payment infrastructure leveraging blockchain technology, is pleased to announce that its internally developed enterprise Web3 wallet, “Datachain Wallet,” has passed the initial screening in the Financial Innovation Category of the Tokyo Financial Award 2026, organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
The category received a record 171 applications from Japan and overseas, with 14 applicants passing the initial screening following evaluation by a panel of experts. Datachain Wallet entered the category as an enterprise Web3 wallet that supports the secure management and transfer of digital assets, including stablecoins, while accommodating corporate governance and security policies and combining privacy protection with compliance capabilities.
Datachain Wallet will now undergo further refinement through a support program that includes mentoring and business matching, ahead of the final screening scheduled for around January 2027.
About the Tokyo Financial Award 2026
The Tokyo Financial Award is an initiative of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government that recognizes efforts contributing to financial innovation and the realization of a sustainable society through finance.
The Financial Innovation Category establishes themes based on financial service needs and challenges identified by Tokyo residents and businesses, and invites innovative financial services and technologies from Japan and overseas to address them. Applicants that pass the initial screening receive support to further develop and enhance their services and businesses, including mentoring, business matching, and assistance with international communications.
Tokyo Financial Award 2026 official website:
https://www.finaward.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en/
Tokyo Metropolitan Government announcement of the initial screening results:
https://www.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/information/press/2026/10/2026101906
About Datachain Wallet
Datachain Wallet is an internally developed enterprise Web3 wallet that enables businesses to securely hold, transfer, and manage digital assets, including stablecoins, as part of their operations. It provides capabilities tailored to corporate requirements, addressing challenges that consumer-oriented wallets often struggle to handle, such as key management, transfer approval processes, access control, audit readiness, and the management of crypto assets used to pay transaction fees.
1. Internal control through approval workflows and multi-signature
Approval workflows and role-based permissions can be configured for critical operations such as transfers. Multi-signature, which requires approval from multiple members, is also supported, preventing asset transfers by any single individual. The wallet enables operations aligned with corporate governance requirements, with full visibility into who requested each operation, who approved it, and under what permissions it was performed.
2. Secure and simple key management with Passkeys
Datachain Wallet adopts Passkey technology for private key management. This reduces risks that are common challenges with typical Web3 wallets, such as the loss or leakage of seed phrases, as well as enterprise-specific operational risks such as employee departures and handovers. Users can operate the wallet securely through the familiar, everyday authentication experience of biometrics and similar methods.
3. Gasless transactions that reduce operational overhead
Datachain Wallet provides a gasless mechanism that eliminates the need for user companies to individually prepare gas fees for executing transactions. It removes the accounting and operational burden of procuring, replenishing, and managing native tokens (crypto assets) for every transfer or contract execution, greatly simplifying wallet operations as a business function.
4. On-chain privacy combined with compliance
Through integration with “KuraPrivacy” (https://kura.datachain.jp/), an on-chain privacy platform developed by Datachain, Datachain Wallet achieves both the protection of on-chain transaction data and compliance readiness. On public blockchains, transaction amounts, balances, counterparties, and transaction histories can be visible to third parties, making the protection of business information, counterparty information, and fund flow data a critical concern for enterprise use. At the same time, in the financial and payments domain, audits, regulatory response, and accountability to relevant stakeholders are indispensable. Datachain Wallet minimizes unnecessary disclosure of transaction data to third parties while supporting selective disclosure for audits and regulatory purposes, achieving both the confidentiality and the accountability required in practice.
5. Flexibility enabled by in-house development in Japan
Datachain Wallet is developed in-house by Datachain, a Japanese company. It supports flexible delivery models tailored to each customer’s business, ranging from integration into the customer’s own services via APIs/SDKs to use as a SaaS. Datachain will also prioritize support for stablecoins, digital assets, and services issued and used in Japan, and can provide customized development to meet each customer’s unique business processes as well as accounting and compliance requirements—delivering fine-grained support aligned with Japanese business practices and the regulatory environment.
An early access version of Datachain Wallet is currently available free of charge to businesses considering the use of stablecoins and digital assets.
For more details about Datachain Wallet, please visit the official website.
Future Outlook
Through the award’s support program, Datachain Wallet will deepen dialogue and collaboration with financial institutions and businesses, and further enhance the service for practical applications such as business-to-business payments and corporate treasury management.
Feedback from early access users will also inform ongoing improvements, strengthening the internal controls, operational usability, privacy protection, and compliance capabilities required for corporate use. Datachain will continue building an environment in which businesses can confidently incorporate stablecoins and other digital assets into their operations, advancing the real-world adoption of on-chain finance.
About Datachain, Inc.
Guided by the vision of "Enabling the World to Interact Transparently as One Network", Datachain builds on its blockchain R&D foundation established at its 2018 founding. Through its stablecoin, tokenized deposit, enterprise Web3 wallet, cross-chain infrastructure, and privacy layer businesses, the company is driving the real-world implementation of next-generation financial and payment infrastructure.
Company Overview
- Company name: Datachain, Inc.
- CEO: Tetsushi Hisata
- Address: PMO Higashi-Shimbashi 4F, 2-12-1 Higashi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Established: March 2018
- URL: https://www.datachain.jp/