MIZUHIKI Compliance Suite
Identity
- eKYC-verified credentials anchored to Japan's My Number infrastructure.
- Verify once, use across all applications.
- No PII on-chain.
About us
New Utility Standard forJapan's Digital Economy
MIZUHIKI is Japan's sovereign, Ethereum-equivalent L1, purpose-built for regulated stablecoins. Onshore-validated and compliance-first, it delivers sub-second JPY settlement with protocol-level identity verification and sustainable issuer economics.
Governance
Our Guiding Principles
The MIZUHIKI Compliance Suite provides identity verification, regulatory compliance, and risk management as shared, on-chain primitives — available free to every application on the network.
MIZUHIKI Compliance Suite
Compliance validation
- On-chain sanctions screening
- On-chain wallet risk scoring
- On-chain issuer eligibility
- On-chain transaction monitoring
MIZUHIKI Compliance Suite
Risk management
- Transaction limits
- Asset gating
- Multi-party approvals
- Geographic restrictions
The team
Our Leadership
Russell Cummer
Founder and Co-Representative Director
Russell Cummer is the founder of Paidy, Japan's leading BNPL service. Paidy partnered with over 700,000 merchants, reaching Unicorn status in 2020 before PayPal acquired it in 2021. Previously, Russell worked on credit and derivatives trading at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo. Russell holds a Master of Science in Financial Mathematics from Stanford University.
Gen Kanai
Co-Representative Director
Gen Kanai is a blockchain industry investor and open-source internet executive. Kanai currently serves as a Director at Animoca Brands, and previously led the Mozilla Foundation's expansion to Asia. Kanai holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College.
Szilvia Kovari-Krecsmary
COO
Szilvia Kovari-Krecsmary is a visionary business leader with a track record of building, scaling, and transforming products, businesses, and organizations in highly competitive, fast-moving markets across five continents. Most recently she served as CSO at Paidy, overseeing strategy, product and marketing. She holds a BA from Tokyo University and MBA from Hult Ashridge.
Jeff Wentworth
Chief Architect
Jeff Wentworth is the co-founder of Curvegrid, a Japan-based enterprise blockchain company. Previously, Jeff was Vice President and global product owner of block and object storage at Goldman Sachs. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
The Foundation
The Foundation
Core responsibilities
MIZUHIKI is governed by the Foundation for MIZUHIKI, a general incorporated association (ippan shadan houjin) registered in Japan.
The Foundation holds stewardship of the MIZUHIKI protocol and the ecosystem programmes that support its growth.
It does not engage in commercial activities that compete with applications or operators on the network.
- Protocol governance and upgrade management
- Validator network oversight and operator onboarding
- Ecosystem and developer community programmes
- Stewardship of the Foundation-allocated MIZU supply
