BitCash×NANJ Press Release Translation
The contents of this article are a translation of the press release that was published today.
Press Release URL : (https://www.atpress.ne.jp/news/156830)
Translation
“BitCash” and “NANJCOIN” collaborates for the development of esports and cryptocurrencies.
Let’s give big yells to professional esports players on the world stage with the cryptocurrency “NANJCOIN”.
BitCash Inc. issuing e-money “BitCash”, at Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Masayuki Igusa as CEO, and NANJ Corporation issuing cryptocurrency “NANJCOIN”, at Osaka, Yuji Mori, Yasushi Ishi, Ryota Ono, and Daisuke Hirota as CEO, conduct a collaboration campaign for the development of esports as new entertainment and cryptocurrency.
■Special Website: https://nanjcoin.com/campaign/esports201805/
■Detail of the collaboration
BRIEF: You can directly support 4 professional players of fighting games belonging to “CYCLOPS athlete gaming”, who will enter the esports convention “COMBO BREAKER 2018” held in Illinois USA, by donating cryptocurrency NANJCOIN to them.
Actual NANJCOIN coin lottery* will be carried out in Twitter by retweeting your yell tweet.
(*Actual coin lottery campaign is only for those who live in Japan.)
Collaboration period: JST 17:00 May 25th (Fri) — JST 12:00 May 28th (Mon), 2018
(Yell retweet campaign: JST 13:00 May 22nd (Tue) — JST 12:00 May 28th (Mon), 2018)
※Information regarding the contest has been removed as it is exclusive to Japan.
Our Professional Players:
・DOGURA（for STREET FIGHTER series, DRAGONBALL FIGHTERS）
・G01（for STREET FIGHTER series, DRAGONBALL FIGHTERS）
・Tanukana（for TEKKEN）
・FENRITTI（for BLAZBLUE、DRAGONBALL FIGHTERS）
●Image of Support Interface
NANJ’s official character for esports “ELENA*” in the CYCLOPS uniform and 4 pro-players will be ambassadors during the collaboration and warm up the esports together with more than 10,000 members in NANJ’s Discord community and Twitter.
*ELENA is abbreviation of ELEctric sports NAnj.
■Background of collaboration
The visions of NANJ Corporation, dedicated to support and develop all the sports by building sports economy with cryptocurrencies, and of BitCash Inc., developing and spreading energetically its business in the esports field growing rapidly in Japan, have been coincided and brought this collaboration.
<Comment from Daisuke Hirota, CEO of NANJ Corpotation>
This will be a big opportunity to see a possibility of cryptocurrencies in the actual economy. I have a great expectation for this collaboration because this is the realization of direct support and communication between fans and players with NANJCOIN and will be a big PR for large numbers of cryptocurrency holders, said to be millions in Japan.
<Comment from Masayuki Igusa, CEO of BitCash Inc.>
4 pro-players in “CYCLOPS athlete gaming”, our company sponsoring, are the top players in a global stage and drawing big attention in the convention. I am in great hope that this will be a chance for many people to know the attraction of esports and many supporters can enjoy a feeling of unity with the players by supporting directly with NANJCOIN, watching live streaming of their performance.
■What’s esports
“Esports” is the abbreviation of “electronic sports” and it means general sports and amusement by electronic devices in a broad sense. Recognizing computer and video fighting game as one of sports, a lot of fighting game titles are played.
■About NANJ Corporation
Company: NANJ Corporation
Address: 1–7–4, Shitennoji, Tennoji-ku, Osaka City, Osaka, 543–0051 JAPAN
CEO: Yuji Mori, Yasushi Ishi, Ryota Ono, Daisuke Hirota
URL: https://nanjcoin.com
NANJ Corporation is the issuer of Japan domestic cryptocurrency “NANJCOIN” (hereafter, NANJ). NANJ was born to build an economy of sports in domestic and overseas by supporting sports players and organizations and being used as a currency in sports industries.
NANJ’s Discord, as its official community, has more than 10,000 members and NANJ is one of the most attention-grabbing cryptocurrencies in Japan. NANJ’s community and business building method is being imitated by a lot of other projects due to its success and novelty.
■About BitCash Inc.
Company: BitCash Inc.
Address: 4F Shibuya Minami Tokyu Bld., 3–12–8, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150–0002 JAPAN
CEO: Masayuki Igusa
BitCash Inc. has been providing with payment solution connecting member stores and their customers by prepaid e-money “BitCash” for 20 years in its field since its service release in 1997. It also entered into esports as one of its core business and is developing the business to grow and spread esports in Japan.
■About CYCLOPS athlete gaming
CYCLOPS athlete gaming is a professional esports team based in Osaka, Japan.
Through a lot of conventions and games in domestic and overseas, it has been continuing its growth and expansion. Belonging players have been making the world their stage in wide range of games such as fighting, FPS, and TPS, and especially in fighting games, showing their prominent performance by winning two-time in STREET FIGHTER World Championship and a perfect victory in BLAZBLUE in EVO JAPAN held in January 2018, they are contributing for the development of esports.
English and Chinese website will be released on 25th May.
