Pacific Meta CEO Iwasaki Named Official Claude Ambassador
The appointment puts a blockchain-focused community leader in Anthropic's official ambassador program, with Iwasaki planning quarterly practitioner events starting in Tokyo this September.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Pacific Meta CEO Shota Iwasaki has been appointed as an official Claude Community Ambassador by Anthropic. He will serve as Community Leader for the blockchain domain and launch a Claude community in Japan focused on that domain, with the vision of making blockchain the infrastructure for AI economic activity.
Iwasaki will run the blockchain domain within Anthropic's Claude Community Ambassadors program, where selected individuals lead communities by city or specialty. His activities will be listed on Anthropic's official event calendar.
The appointment stems from a structural argument: bank accounts and credit cards rely on identity verification, so AI cannot hold accounts in its own name. Iwasaki sees the blockchain wallet and stablecoins as the only infrastructure that lets AI act as a payment entity. He has been working on consulting and his own practice around that idea.
The first community event is set for Thursday, September 3, 2026 in Tokyo under the theme "The Infrastructure of the AI Economic Zone Is Crypto." Iwasaki plans to hold events for practitioners quarterly.
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