bitFlyer Holdings Establishes AI Strategy Office: Building Financial Infrastructure for the AI Agent Era via AI x Blockchain
bitFlyer Holdings launched a new AI Strategy Office to develop next-generation financial infrastructure combining AI and blockchain, preparing for an era of autonomous AI agents.
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bitFlyer Holdings, Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and CEO: Yuzo Kano; hereinafter "the Company") established the "AI Strategy Office," a new organization directly under the CEO, on April 1, 2026, to promote the research and development of next-generation financial infrastructure through the integration of AI and Blockchain technologies. In conjunction with this, the Company has begun recruiting specialized personnel in the AI field.
## Background of Establishing the AI Strategy Office
Due to the rapid evolution of generative AI, the practical application of "AI Agents"—AI that makes decisions and executes tasks autonomously—is progressing. A new form of economic activity is emerging where AI performs tasks, utilizes services, and conducts transactions without human instruction. As this "Agentic Economy" rises, a highly reliable data infrastructure and transaction record management are essential for AI agents to conduct economic activities safely and autonomously.
The Company believes that the combination of AI x Blockchain is the solution to this challenge. AI functions as the intelligence responsible for advanced reasoning and decision-making, while Blockchain provides a tamper-proof decentralized database foundation to permanently record and share transaction histories and data. By integrating these two technologies, the Company believes there is potential to establish a foundation for new economic activities where AI agents autonomously perform contracts, settlements, and transactions. The Company considers the integration of AI x Blockchain to be a technology that can support next-generation financial infrastructure, and the entire group is working towards its realization.
Through its group company, bitFlyer Blockchain, Inc., which develops and provides the enterprise blockchain "Miyabi," the Company's group has a track record of implementing blockchain technology in the core systems of financial institutions and enterprises. "Miyabi" is an enterprise blockchain featuring high-speed transaction processing ensuring finality and high security. It has built a proven track record in the financial sector where high processing performance is required, such as being adopted as the underlying system for "Zipangcoin," a crypto asset designed to be linked to the price of gold. Backed by such technological foundations and expertise, the Company established the "AI Strategy Office" as a cross-company specialized organization to accelerate group-wide efforts in the AI x Blockchain domain.
## Main Initiatives of the AI Strategy Office
The AI Strategy Office is established as an organization directly under the CEO and will drive both the enhancement of company-wide operations utilizing AI technology and the research, development, and use-case exploration in the AI x Blockchain integration domain. The main initiatives are as follows:
- Promotion of company-wide AI utilization
- Improvement of operational efficiency and development productivity utilizing AI
- Research, development, and use-case exploration in the AI x Blockchain domain
- Research on financial infrastructure anticipating the era of AI agents
- Development of internal AI infrastructure and data utilization environments
- Technological collaboration with external partners
The office will promote the AI strategy cross-functionally while collaborating with various departments such as product, engineering, legal, and compliance. To advance these initiatives, the Company has begun recruiting specialized personnel, including engineers and researchers in the AI field.
## Background of Establishing the AI Strategy Office
Due to the rapid evolution of generative AI, the practical application of "AI Agents"—AI that makes decisions and executes tasks autonomously—is progressing. A new form of economic activity is emerging where AI performs tasks, utilizes services, and conducts transactions without human instruction. As this "Agentic Economy" rises, a highly reliable data infrastructure and transaction record management are essential for AI agents to conduct economic activities safely and autonomously.
The Company believes that the combination of AI x Blockchain is the solution to this challenge. AI functions as the intelligence responsible for advanced reasoning and decision-making, while Blockchain provides a tamper-proof decentralized database foundation to permanently record and share transaction histories and data. By integrating these two technologies, the Company believes there is potential to establish a foundation for new economic activities where AI agents autonomously perform contracts, settlements, and transactions. The Company considers the integration of AI x Blockchain to be a technology that can support next-generation financial infrastructure, and the entire group is working towards its realization.
Through its group company, bitFlyer Blockchain, Inc., which develops and provides the enterprise blockchain "Miyabi," the Company's group has a track record of implementing blockchain technology in the core systems of financial institutions and enterprises. "Miyabi" is an enterprise blockchain featuring high-speed transaction processing ensuring finality and high security. It has built a proven track record in the financial sector where high processing performance is required, such as being adopted as the underlying system for "Zipangcoin," a crypto asset designed to be linked to the price of gold. Backed by such technological foundations and expertise, the Company established the "AI Strategy Office" as a cross-company specialized organization to accelerate group-wide efforts in the AI x Blockchain domain.
## Main Initiatives of the AI Strategy Office
The AI Strategy Office is established as an organization directly under the CEO and will drive both the enhancement of company-wide operations utilizing AI technology and the research, development, and use-case exploration in the AI x Blockchain integration domain. The main initiatives are as follows:
- Promotion of company-wide AI utilization
- Improvement of operational efficiency and development productivity utilizing AI
- Research, development, and use-case exploration in the AI x Blockchain domain
- Research on financial infrastructure anticipating the era of AI agents
- Development of internal AI infrastructure and data utilization environments
- Technological collaboration with external partners
The office will promote the AI strategy cross-functionally while collaborating with various departments such as product, engineering, legal, and compliance. To advance these initiatives, the Company has begun recruiting specialized personnel, including engineers and researchers in the AI field.