Fujitsu launches its new “Fujitsu Web3 Acceleration Platform”, providing a development environment and a range of blockchain and high-performance computing based service APIs
The Japanese tech giant views the platform as a potential hub for start-ups, partner firms, and academic institutions to collaborate and create innovative Web3 applications and services.
The new platform will connect users to Fujitsu’s existing suite of Computing as a Service (“CaaS”) applications, including “CaaS HPC” and “CaaS Digital Annealer”, as well as the “Fujitsu Computing as a Service Data e-TRUST” (“Data e-TRUST”) module.
Data e-Trust leverages Fujitsu’s “IDentitY eXchange” (“IDYX”) and “Chain Data Lineage” technologies for ensuring the authenticity of transactions and secure data distribution and utilization between different systems and services with blockchain and other data verification tools.
Moving forward, Fujitsu also plans additional technology modules for the platform, including its transparent trust transfer technology and “ConnectionChain” technology.
Fujitsu will provide access to the platform free of charge to select participants of its global partner program, “Fujitsu Accelerator Program for CaaS” to drive co-creation of new Web3 services.
Program partners will be able to begin to use the platform in Japan from March 2023, with availability step-by-step expanding to partners globally starting in fiscal 2023.
The platform will contribute to the realization of a rich ecosystem that empowers users to create new applications for Web3, allowing for new ways to interact, create, and share data freely and securely for use cases including digital content rights management, contracts, business transactions and processes.
Under its vision for Fujitsu Uvance to achieve a sustainable world, Fujitsu ultimately aims to offer a Web3 platform that allows companies and individual users to connect to co-create transformational, value-added solutions to a variety of issues facing society.
Fujitsu’s world-leading, advanced computing technologies
With the new platform, users will have access to Fujitsu’s cutting-edge computing technologies and applications, in addition to the blockchain and verification technologies provided by “Data e-TRUST”.
These include “Fujitsu Computing as a Service HPC” and “Fujitsu Computing as a Service Digital Annealer”, which will enable users to develop and run simulations, AI, and combinatorial optimization applications.
By leveraging these powerful technologies, users will be able to analyze various data-driven scenarios and identify trust-worthy solutions to various societal challenges.
Fujitsu will also gradually make available additional prototype functions for Web3 through its transparent trust-ensuring technology and “ConnectionChain” technology for co-creation partners via its Computing as a Service (CaaS) offering.
Yoshito Sudo, Founder and CEO of TC3 K.K said, “We are excited about the launch of the Fujitsu Web3 Acceleration Platform. Our company helps enterprises to build digital products and AI engines by working with global Gig Economies,”
“By participating in the Fujitsu Web3 Acceleration Platform, we plan to prototype Web3 application services and DAO community services,”
“With this initiative, we believe that we can promote our vision of “Gig Innovated,” a world in which we can achieve innovation with Gig Economy,” said Sudo
Technologies & services available free of charge on the Fujitsu Web3 Acceleration Platform
Co-creation with the Fujitsu Web3 Acceleration Platform
Fujitsu will provide a portal site and development environment to support co-development activities and the development of new Web3 applications and services, and to test and practice the value these new Web3 applications and services offer.
The Japanese tech giant and its co-creation partners will also examine use cases, develop prototypes, and conduct PoC trials aimed at creating new business related to the following three key themes of Web3:
1. Realization of a co-creation society through decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO)
- Trial development and implementation of new Web3 services in which projects are organized and promoted through autonomous consensus among participants according to various objectives
- Visualization of participants activities and value they created to appropriately distribute gained profits according to individual contribution
2. Rights management and utilization of digital content
- Development and implementation of new Web3 services for distribution of digital content including images and videos to protect copyrights and guarantee authenticity of digital data
- Supporting the creation of various contents based on secondary work and reused work that can be freely distributed by providing a system that guarantees copy rights and legitimate compensation of creators
3. Realization of digital trust
- Test development and implementation of new Web3 services to ensure the accuracy and reliability of information by avoiding risks such as leakage of personal information and fraudulent transactions in order to enable more flexible and open communication and use of information
- Realization of a new social paradigm in which companies and individual users can connect securely by preventing digital fraud and ensuring authenticity in all transactions and sharing of data knowledge
Future Plans
As Fujitsu expands services and functionality for its new Web3 platform from March 2023, it further plans to hold a global planning and development contest to build and implement DAO communities and create new Web3 services.
Hiroyoshi Miwa, Vice President of Kwansei Gakuin University (Campus: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture) & Executive Dean of Organisation for Information Strategies, Japan says Web3 is still in its infancy, but it has the potential to open up a whole new world.
“To achieve this goal, it is important not only to research and develop advanced technologies, but also to create new services,”
“In the post COVID era, there are efforts to make use of Web3 in the field of education and research. We will also use this platform to challenge various innovative initiatives and contribute to social implementation at our institution,” said Miwa
Fujitsu Computing as a Service”, Fujitsu’s portfolio of cloud services that make advanced computing technologies easily available to everyone.
In addition to the conventional application in academic fields, Fujitsu will promote cutting-edge research and the enhancement of corporate competitiveness in a wide range of industries.
Fujitsu CaaS was launched in Japan by the end of October 2022 and is scheduled to be rolled out globally step-by-step starting in fiscal 2023.
