Why is it all 'hush hush' in Jasmy land?

Jasmy operates inside Japan’s highly regulated, relationship-driven economy, whereby government-linked projects and corporate partnerships often mature behind layers of compliance, procurement and confidentiality before reaching the public. This is why it is currently all "hush, hush" in Jasmy land. It feels like we are not getting any updates because we are not getting many updates!

Kunitake Ando alluded to the nature of this topic in a recent interview (I translated the spoken Japanese from a video post) where he mentioned that crypto regulations do not require him to report to stakeholders as he was required when he was the COO of Sony. This is important because crypto is a different animal from the stock market, and the Japanese government do not want to be liberally sharing trade secrets prior to procurement.

Instead, Jasmy's progress may surface obliquely through ministries and national agencies (e.g., the Digital Agency, METI and J-LIS), prefectural and municipal authorities (e.g.,Nagano Prefecture), technology partners (e.g., Panasonic Advanced Technology, Cybertrust, Witz and Aplix) and institutional programs (My Number/JPKI and Wagamachi Carbon Credit NAGANO), rather than beneath a dramatic Jasmy headline.

In Japan, credibility is frequently built in silence and announced only when certainty replaces ambition. Put simply, this project is government-linked and that matters because public authorities do not normally attach their name, funding and reputation to technology without procurement, security and compliance checks.

This moves Jasmy beyond a speculative crypto. Instead, it will have institutional credibility and a pathway to wider adoption.

Institutional credibility means Jasmy will no longer be judged only by its promises; it will have evidence that its technology can satisfy government-level security, compliance and procurement requirements. That success will create a domino effect: just one trusted deployment makes Jasmy easier for other authorities and corporations to approve, producing more applications, users and transactions.

Really big money comes with patience. Bitcoin was not built in a day. Think big. Think outside the box!