Why 3AM was Founded

In recent years, there has been a surge of products and services aiming for mass adoption in Web3. However, many of these lack adequate consideration for user privacy protection and long-term operational sustainability. Web3 usage by users without advanced literacy can potentially lead to severe incidents, including threats to life, and there is a critical situation where even services offered by major companies completely disregard these risks. Since blockchain usage history cannot be deleted and resolving problems reversibly is impossible, immediate measures are required. 3AM was established to contribute to the safe proliferation of Web3 as a social justice endeavor by providing Web3 service infrastructure, products, solutions, and consulting services based on a portfolio of pending patents that ensure thorough quantum-safe privacy protection and long-term operation for over a billion users.

Founder's Background

Yohei Nishikubo (LinkedIn) aims for comprehensive contributions to the proliferation of Web3 based on the following experiences. His approach is characterized by elevating social and business demands into implementable designs, rapidly executing PoC implementations, and quickly turning intellectual property such as patents into reality.

• Entrepreneur experiences in the advertising and mobile app sectors
• Angel investments in equities and cryptocurrencies
• Startup investments as a partner at a VC (Israel, UK, Indonesia, etc.)
• Policy consulting for governments and local authorities
• Strategic consulting for large corporations
• Business and technology development in the blockchain field
• Recently developed Web3 migrations for services with over 100 million accounts

Target Customers

• Companies or organizations hesitant to adopt Web3 due to a strong focus on privacy for their customers and stakeholders
• Companies or organizations considering the introduction of loyalty programs or in-service currencies

Main Technology Portfolio

Quantum-Safe Privacy Protection Web3 Account Management System

Using smart contracts and MPC/TSS technology, this product and solution, based on patent-pending proprietary methods, avoids identity spoofing and cross-tracking of usage history due to quantum vulnerabilities in blockchain usage. It enables rapid Web3 adaptation of existing services by extending existing Web2 accounts. It has already been implemented in services with over 100 million accounts. Integration into Web2 services is also possible, and it can be provided as a WalletConnect-compatible mobile app or MetaMask Snap, allowing usage without altering existing UX. This product supports all EVM-compatible blockchains, including Ethereum.

Sustainable Payment Services Using INTMAX

Traditional blockchain-based payment services (including loyalty programs) faced issues with storage, making it impossible to operate services used daily by millions of users in the long term. However, this challenge has been resolved by using the stateless zkRollup blockchain, INTMAX. Transaction information is stored as proof sets locally (including the operator's server), enabling the handling of personal information and accounting records completely as in existing Web2 services. If the organization is already compliant, issues such as cross-border transfer of personal information will not arise. When used in conjunction with our account management system, it allows Web3 transformation for services with over 100 million users. Even for smaller scales, maintaining overall ACID properties in payment service operations is not easily achieved with existing relational databases and can incur costs of several hundred million yen annually. Blockchain guarantees ACID properties across the processing system, allowing the construction of proprietary payment services at costs as low as 1/100.

What is MPC/TSS?

MPC (Multi Party Computing) / TSS (Threshold Signing Scheme) is a method where multiple parties participate in signing, and a valid signature is obtained when the participants exceed a certain threshold. Key features of this method include that the secret key for signing does not exist anywhere in the processing system and that signing by a single party is not possible. When combined with Web2 authentication, it provides highly advanced security and non-custodial characteristics with a simple UX that does not depend on user literacy.

What are ACID Properties?

ACID stands for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability, which are important properties in transactions. It is well known that achieving these properties in existing relational databases becomes exponentially more costly as the scale increases, but they are inherent features of blockchain.