【Founding Declaration】"Washoku Republic" Project Launched | Web3 Process Economy Valuing the "Process" of Japanese Cuisine
Food NFT Consortium announced the launch of "Washoku Republic," a Web3-type process economy total solution, starting March 31, 2026. This project aims to digitize and monetize activities related to Japanese cuisine, creating a new economic sphere and establishing a decentralized, AI-collaborative quasi-national model where producers to consumers participate.
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The Food NFT Consortium will begin offering "Washoku Republic," a comprehensive Web3-type process economy solution that "saves, protects, and monetizes activities, contributions, techniques, and knowledge" related to Japanese cuisine from producers, businesses, chefs, consumers, and regions as data, inheriting it for future generations and creating a new economic zone, starting March 31, 2026 (Tuesday).
This project is a decentralized, AI-collaborative quasi-national model concepted as "Washoku Republic where 'Wa' (harmony/Japan) connects and continuously circulates." It merges token economy and process economy, with participants from producers to consumers, restaurants, and chefs joining as "citizens" to create value.
Bringing smiles to the world with Japanese cuisine.
Aiming to achieve this, we hereby declare the independence and founding of "Washoku Republic."
### 【Bringing the Spirit of "Mini-Republics" to the Modern Age: An Updated Declaration of Independence】
In the 1980s, a "mini-republic" boom swept across Japan. This movement, where local governments and private sectors in various regions collectively declared "independence" and issued their own currencies and passports to promote regional revitalization, was filled with playfulness and a spirit of self-reliance, and was highly vibrant.
"Washoku Republic" is an update of this spirit using cutting-edge modern technology. Based on an autonomous decentralized blockchain platform and AI, it will be developed as a process-driven comprehensive solution that can "monetize and accelerate experiences and contributions related to Japanese cuisine" and "build a nation by themselves."
Behind the scenes, a mechanism for "AI-driven data analysis, data visualization/monetization, and operation" is in motion, building a system where individual contributions (development based on data, ingredient support, inheritance of traditional techniques, etc.) are evaluated with transparency.
This project was launched when Nao Shinohara, a former product development manager at Tohato Co., Ltd. and currently a freelance product development consultant and standardisation support provider, and Satoko Takenaka, a former NHK program director, "Tabemono no Koe" Japanese cuisine producer, and active proponent of "Japanese cuisine x Web3 process economy," met. Their opinions converged on the Web3 process economy for Japanese cuisine, leading to their collaboration and the establishment of the "Washoku Republic" project, operating on a blockchain and AI-based process economy for Japanese cuisine.
### 【Process Economy: Sharing the "Process" Not Just the Finished Product】
Washoku Republic believes that the true value lies not only in the consumption of finished products and dishes but in the "process" of learning, cultivating, eating, and enjoying together.
This project is a decentralized, AI-collaborative quasi-national model concepted as "Washoku Republic where 'Wa' (harmony/Japan) connects and continuously circulates." It merges token economy and process economy, with participants from producers to consumers, restaurants, and chefs joining as "citizens" to create value.
Bringing smiles to the world with Japanese cuisine.
Aiming to achieve this, we hereby declare the independence and founding of "Washoku Republic."
### 【Bringing the Spirit of "Mini-Republics" to the Modern Age: An Updated Declaration of Independence】
In the 1980s, a "mini-republic" boom swept across Japan. This movement, where local governments and private sectors in various regions collectively declared "independence" and issued their own currencies and passports to promote regional revitalization, was filled with playfulness and a spirit of self-reliance, and was highly vibrant.
"Washoku Republic" is an update of this spirit using cutting-edge modern technology. Based on an autonomous decentralized blockchain platform and AI, it will be developed as a process-driven comprehensive solution that can "monetize and accelerate experiences and contributions related to Japanese cuisine" and "build a nation by themselves."
Behind the scenes, a mechanism for "AI-driven data analysis, data visualization/monetization, and operation" is in motion, building a system where individual contributions (development based on data, ingredient support, inheritance of traditional techniques, etc.) are evaluated with transparency.
This project was launched when Nao Shinohara, a former product development manager at Tohato Co., Ltd. and currently a freelance product development consultant and standardisation support provider, and Satoko Takenaka, a former NHK program director, "Tabemono no Koe" Japanese cuisine producer, and active proponent of "Japanese cuisine x Web3 process economy," met. Their opinions converged on the Web3 process economy for Japanese cuisine, leading to their collaboration and the establishment of the "Washoku Republic" project, operating on a blockchain and AI-based process economy for Japanese cuisine.
### 【Process Economy: Sharing the "Process" Not Just the Finished Product】
Washoku Republic believes that the true value lies not only in the consumption of finished products and dishes but in the "process" of learning, cultivating, eating, and enjoying together.