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The notification hit my Startale App at 3:47 AM last Tuesday. "Your Yoki Core is ready for the Ukiyo Circuit." I'd been waiting since the May 11 launch announcement, and after three weeks of watching the first campaign unfold, I'm convinced Astar Network has built something diffe

The line between traditional corporate Japan and Web3 infrastructure just got significantly thinner. Startale, the company behind Astar Network—one of Polkadot's most prominent parachains—announced a $63 million Series A funding round led by SBI Group and Sony, two of Japan's mos