{"id":58380,"date":"2022-02-25T18:43:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T16:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=58380"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:28:41","slug":"rakuten-launches-nft-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/rakuten-launches-nft-marketplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Rakuten Launches NFT Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rakuten <a href=\"https:\/\/global.rakuten.com\/corp\/news\/press\/2022\/0225_01.html?year=2022&#038;month=2&#038;category=ec\">announced<\/a> the launch of the Rakuten NFT marketplace. The Japanese e-commerce giant attributed the move to the growing adoption of cryptocurrencies in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The platform will offer users the ability to buy and sell tokens across a range of fields\u2014from sports and entertainment to music and anime\u2014starting in 2023, including peer-to-peer trading.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of intellectual property will be able to create pages to issue and sell NFTs. A variety of payment methods is expected to be introduced.<\/p>\n<p>The platform announced collaborations, in particular with manga artist Hiroshi Kurugane (comics), the Asahi Corporation (TV programs) and the group Under Beasty (J-pop music) for the release of NFT collections.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1015\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-627.png\" alt=\"Rakuten \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0438\u043b NFT-\u043c\u0430\u0440\u043a\u0435\u0442\u043f\u043b\u0435\u0439\u0441\" class=\"wp-image-166436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-627.png 1015w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-627-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-627-768x272.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1015px) 100vw, 1015px\" \/><figcaption>Source: Rakuten.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In March 2021, Rakuten <a href=\"https:\/\/corp.rakuten.co.jp\/news\/press\/2021\/0224_03.html?year=2021&#038;month=2&#038;category=ec%20fintech\">enabled<\/a> its customers to pay with digital assets at thousands of points of sale across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rakuten announced the launch of the Rakuten NFT marketplace. The Japanese e-commerce giant attributed the move to the growing adoption of cryptocurrencies in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[822,1213,2145],"class_list":["post-58380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-marketplace","tag-nft","tag-rakuten"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58382,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58380\/revisions\/58382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}