NTT DOCOMO Ventures Invests in Mint Town, Co., Ltd., a Company Aiming to Provide a web3 Gaming Platform through its Reward Point Collection Service “Mint Town”

NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Jun Yasumoto; hereinafter, “NDV”) is pleased to announce that, through a fund that it manages, it has invested in Mint Town, Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Hironao Kunimitsu ), a company handling web3 games and platform business.

Mint Town, Co., Ltd. is a startup led by Hironao Kunimitsu, founder of gumi, and was established in May 2023 through a corporate spin-off from Thirdverse, Co., Ltd. In addition to operating the web3 game “Captain Tsubasa -RIVALS-” jointly developed with BLOCKSMITH&Co. and developing several web3 games, the company is planning the global rollout of “Mint Town”*1, a new type of reward point collection service that allows players to earn points by playing free games. The company aims to turn Mint Town, its reward point collection service, into a web3 gaming platform in the future, and is looking into issuing its own wallets and tokens. Development is currently underway with a view to releasing the service this spring.

The NTT DOCOMO Group is promoting initiatives to accelerate the spread and implementation of web3 in our society. The investment was made with an eye toward popularizing web3, in the hope of creating future business synergies between the DOCOMO Group and the company, which has a wealth of experience in the development and operation of web3 games and platforms.

*1 Based on the concept of “enriching people’s lives through games,” this new type of reward point collection service allows users to enjoy earning points and to increase them all at once by playing free games. In addition to what is possible with existing reward point collection services, users can use the points they have earned to play games within the service and increase their points to a maximum of 1 million yen** by winning. In addition, users will not only be able to connect with other users through the Circle function within the service, but also to collect points together with their Circle friends.
**Points within the service equivalent to 1 million yen.

■Mint Town Co., Ltd. Profile
Name: Mint Town Co., Ltd.
Head Office: WeWork, 11F KANDA SQUARE, 2-2-1 Kanda Nishiki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Representative: CEO Hironao Kunimitsu
Areas of Business: Planning, development, sales and operation of web3 games and platforms
Website: https://minttown.jp/