Sota is the Founder and CEO of Astar Network. Prior to creating the Smart Contract HUB for WASM + EVM and one of the top Parachains on Polkadot, he was the Director at the Japan Blockchain Association. He is selected Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2022. He was also a task force member of the Trusted Web Council led by the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan. Prior to that, he worked at Chronicled in San Francisco and was a blockchain researcher at the University of Tokyo.