Asset-backed cryptos will definitely be the next wave - great to see.

MetaliCoin www.metalicoin.com is another crypto doing just that, but will be creating a crypto metals marketplace, not just for one metal, but a basket of them - gold, silver, platinum, zinc, tin, etc. It's ecosystem will allow people to trade against a basket of metals (like fx trading is done with currencies), and whilst doing so, breaking the metals buying club by giving investors access to wholesale metal prices.

We don't usually see Japanese banks as innovators and leaders. Yet when many banks, central banks and regulators are running scared from crypto-currency, Mitsubishi Bank is embracing them. Great to see!