Gaudiy Financial Labs, Inc. — JVCEA Type-II Member (Web3 IP Platform Operator)

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No registration shown in the FSA crypto-asset exchange operator list dated 2026-04-01 · JVCEA member #2033 (Type II) · Parent group: Gaudiy Group Inc.

Gaudiy Financial Labs Inc. is listed on the official company page as a group company of Gaudiy Group, which operates Web3 × IP fan-economy businesses. The JVCEA list reviewed on 2026-07-29 shows it as Type II member #2033; that category covers entities applying or intending to apply for registration. This should not be read as proof of completed FSA registration or a launched customer-facing exchange service.^[Sources: https://gaudiy.com/; https://jvcea.or.jp/member/; https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/kasoutuka.xlsx.]

1. Corporate Entity and Shareholders

• Trade name (JVCEA-registered name): Gaudiy Financial Labs, Inc.
• Parent group: Gaudiy Group Inc., established February 6, 2026. The official company page lists Gaudiy Inc. (founded May 2, 2018) and Gaudiy Financial Labs as group companies
• Gaudiy Financial Labs incorporation date: not shown on the official company page reviewed on 2026-07-29; the freee public-notice page contains the entity’s financial notices
• Registered office (Gaudiy Financial Labs): 6-7 5F, 3-chome, Kanda-Kajichō, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (JVCEA-registered address)
• Parent company’s registered office: Kanda-Kajichō, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (same address on JVCEA)
• Shareholders and ownership ratios: no specific ratio was shown in the Gaudiy Financial Labs official and public-notice materials reviewed on 2026-07-29
• Disclosed investors in Gaudiy Group / its predecessor at each announcement date:
  • Sony Group (newly joined in 2025年 Pre-Series C)
  • Bandai Namco Holdings (participant from 2022年 Series B)
  • STRIVE, JAFCO (follow-on investors from Series A)
  • SBI Investment, KDDI, Sony Music Entertainment
  • Sanrio, Mitsubishi UFJ Innovation Partners, Mizuho Capital
  • Akatsuki, Anime Times, Coamix, Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan, Bushiroad (newly joined in 2025年 share exchange)
  • Shochiku, Toei Animation, and TOHO (additional financing announced in April 2026)
• Listed status: Unlisted

2. Licences and Registration

• Crypto-asset exchange business (FSA): no entry for the company in the FSA operator list dated 2026-04-01
• JVCEA membership: Type II member #2033 in the list reviewed on 2026-07-29
• Financial instruments, electronic payment instruments, and funds transfer: no registration indication in the official company or JVCEA materials reviewed in this round
• Under JVCEA rules, Type II covers entities applying or intending to apply for registration as a crypto-asset exchange operator or crypto-asset-related derivatives business. Type II membership itself does not mean FSA registration has been completed

3. Handled Currencies

• Among the Gaudiy Group, JVCEA, and FSA materials identified in this review as of 2026-07-29, no launch of a customer-facing crypto-asset exchange under the Gaudiy Financial Labs name was identified. This does not rule out future service or unlisted materials
• Gaudiy Group’s Fanlink describes token and point design within fan communities; these should not be converted into an FSA handled-asset list
• No official list of exchange-business assets was identified within that review scope

4. Business Scope

Gaudiy Financial Labs is positioned as the financial infrastructure component of the parent group’s Web3 × IP business model. The principal businesses operated by parent Gaudiy Group are as follows:

Gaudiy Fanlink (flagship SaaS)

• Provides B2B fan co-creation community platforms to IP holders (publishers, anime and game companies, etc.)
• Delivers one-stop implementation of token issuance, fan-contribution evaluation, point design, and NFT issuance using blockchain technology
• Builds an economic ecosystem for each IP by combining proprietary blockchain with generative AI
• IP deployments (public examples): Shueisha’s “Shōnen Jump+,” Sanrio, Bandai Namco Entertainment (“World of Denon-bu”), Aniplex, Sony Music Entertainment, KONAMI (“Qto”), and others

Gaudiy Financial Labs (JVCEA-registered entity)

• Mission stated as creating new financial infrastructure for the Web3 era (official website)
• Building the tokenomics foundation to convert fan passion and contributions into “economic value”
• Oriented toward future support for IP-specific token listings and provision of trading infrastructure (stated explicitly in past Series B announcements)

MyAnimeList

• Gaudiy Group’s public materials list MyAnimeList as a group company and, in dated business descriptions, cite more than 240 countries and regions and over 1.2 billion viewing/reading records. These are group-level metrics, not Gaudiy Financial Labs exchange metrics

Gaudiy US Inc. (established 2023 年, New York State)

• Established as a North American base; part of global expansion

No customer-facing fiat deposit, margin, or derivatives offering was identified in the Gaudiy Financial Labs official, JVCEA, and FSA materials reviewed on 2026-07-29

5. Market Share and Trading Volume

• Among the Gaudiy Group, JVCEA, and FSA materials identified in this review as of 2026-07-29, no trading-volume or account-count disclosure for a Gaudiy Financial Labs exchange service was identified. This does not establish that no such disclosure exists
• The JVCEA classification is Type II, so it should not be compared directly with operating results of Type I exchanges (see Jvcea Type2 Associate Membership System)
• Do not freeze a count of Fanlink IP deployments or registered fans beyond values in a dated, cited official disclosure

6. History and Key Events

The table below is limited to corporate, business, and membership milestones confirmed through Gaudiy/Gaudiy Group official company and financing information, Gaudiy Financial Labs public notices, the JVCEA list, and the listed financing disclosures. Financing values are values at each announcement date and are not Gaudiy Financial Labs trading metrics.^[Sources: https://gaudiy.com/; https://gaudiy.com/en; https://jvcea.or.jp/member/; https://k.secure.freee.co.jp/companies/1306269/announces; https://thebridge.jp/2025/05/gaudiy-raises-10-billion-yen-in-pre-series-c-funding-from-sony-and-bandai-namco.]

Among the Gaudiy Group, FSA, and JVCEA materials identified in this review as of 2026-07-29, no administrative action or major security incident concerning Gaudiy Financial Labs was identified. This does not establish that no such event exists.

7. Strategic Developments

• Pre-Series C and additional financing: financing and partnerships with Sony Group and Bandai Namco HD were announced in May 2025, followed by additional financing from Shochiku, Toei Animation, and TOHO in April 2026. Do not retain the old “second close planned within the year” statement as a current unfinished plan
• Capital partnerships with major publishers and entertainment companies: With Shueisha, Kodansha, Shogakukan, Bandai Namco HD, Sony Group, and others as shareholders, the structure substantially lowers the barrier to collaboration with content IP holders
• Dual pillars of AI × blockchain: In addition to the proprietary blockchain, the company is commercialising analysis of fan behaviour data and optimisation of reward design using large language models. Internal labs — “Gaudiy AI Lab” and “Gaudiy Web3 Lab” — drive R&D
• Global expansion as a priority: Explicitly signalled entry into global IP markets, including the New York base (Gaudiy US) and Southeast Asia (from 2023 年 onward)
• Leveraging MyAnimeList: Oriented toward expanding the IP fan economy through synergies with the global platform holding 12 億 titles of anime/manga viewing data
• Support for IP-specific token listings: From the Series B announcement stage (2022 年), the company has publicly stated that it aims “in the medium to long term to support listing of tokens unique to each IP”; Gaudiy Financial Labs’ JVCEA registration is consistent with this direction

8. Key Persons

• Yūya Ishikawa: Representative Director CEO and founder of Gaudiy Group, Inc. Has served as representative since the company’s founding in 2018 年. Drives academic collaboration with Keio professors and capital partnerships with major entertainment companies under the banner of “creating a fan-nation”
• Toyotaka Sakai: Professor, Keio University; Economic Design Advisor (appointed 2019 年, confirmed in official PR Times release). A leading authority in institutional design and auction theory, collaborates on Gaudiy’s tokenomics design
• Representative director and officers of Gaudiy Financial Labs: no names were shown on the official company page or JVCEA display reviewed on 2026-07-29

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Sources

• Gaudiy Group, Inc. official corporate website (retrieved 2026-05-18)
• ABOUT page (retrieved 2026-05-18)
• SERVICES page (retrieved 2026-05-18)
• JVCEA member list — Type-II Member #2033 (retrieved 2026-05-18)
• Gaudiy Financial Labs Inc. IR (freee public notices) (retrieved 2026-05-18)
• The Bridge: Gaudiy raises 100億円 in Pre-Series C from Sony and Bandai Namco (2025-05-09) (retrieved 2026-05-18)
• The Bridge: Gaudiy (Web3 × entertainment) raises 9億円 from entertainment and financial companies in Series B2 (2022-08-31) (retrieved 2026-05-18)
• The Bridge: Gaudiy (Web3 × entertainment) raises 25億円 in Series B1 (2022-06-01) (retrieved 2026-05-18)
• The Bridge: Gaudiy, token-economy platform, raises from JAFCO and others (2019-02-25) (retrieved 2026-05-18)
• PR TIMES: Gaudiy collaborates with Sanrio in the Web3 domain (2022-08-31) (retrieved 2026-05-18)