TOKYO, Feb. 15, 2018 – IT-Farm Corp. today announced it will invest in Emercoin to help the ground-breaking provider of blockchain services expand its activities in Japan, a country friendly to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.

Morio Kurosaki, president of IT-Farm, also will join the Emercoin Advisory Board to help promote Emercoin Technology in Japan and identify pilot projects that help businesses use the technology to design secure and innovative solutions for customers.

“We very much look forward to working with the Emercoin team to expand their activities in Japan,” said Kurosaki. “Emercoin’s innovative blockchain business solutions should be received with great enthusiasm in the country.”

The Emercoin Blockchain offers a suite of decentralized, more secure services on top of its blockchain, including:

  • Anti-counterfeiting.
  • Domain name services – recording, securing, proving ownership.
  • Digital time-stamping & digital ownership.
  • Decentralized advertising.
  • New secure & distributed authentication, authorization, auditing and accounting.
  • Decentralized, password-less authentication.
  • Decentralized, mass-scale access control on system certificates (SSL & SSH).
  • Decentralized, peer-to-peer voice-over IP communication.

“We are pleased to have such an esteemed investment group as IT-Farm recognizing the potential of our technology,” said Eugene Shumilov, founder of Emercoin. “We look forward to working with IT-Farm to bring Emercoin technology to Japanese businesses and community. We also very much look forward to having Emercoin listed on one of Japan’s leading cryptocurrency  exchanges during the year 2018.”

The move by IT-Farm comes after the Bitfury Group, the world’s leading full-service blockchain technology firm, announced it will invest and support the Emercoin Blockchain to expand the scope of applications it designs for customers.

About IT Farm

IT-Farm is a venture capital firm that serves as a general partner for investment funds and professional business consultants. IT-Farm is the exclusive service provider to Kibou Fund and Hikari Fund.

About Emercoin

Emercoin is a cryptocurrency and decentralized blockchain platform for a wide range of distributed trusted services. Distinctive features of Emercoin are high reliability, robustness and three-in-one hybrid mining (PoW+MergedMining+PoS). The Emercoin platform already runs network security services EmerSSL/EmerSSH, decentralized domain system EmerDNS, counterfeit solution EmerDPO, VOIP solution ENUMER, to name a few.

Emercoin Contact: Kostiantin Bigus - Managing Director Emercoin

Email: [email protected]

IT-Farm Contact: Yoshiyuki Chiba - General Partner IT-Farm Corporation

Email: [email protected]