We're revolutionizing trust in the digital world.

Our Mission

Our mission is to enable, at scale, companies to achieve self-sufficiency with respect to managing authentication, data ownnership, and identity, independent of big tech and other centralized services.

Our Values

We believe that individuals, families, companies, and nations should have the ability to interact and share data digitally with confidence that the communications are authentically relayed and that privacy is ensured without implicitly entrusting security to centralized, unaccountable tech services.

Sovereignty.
We believe that technology should support our exploration of the human experience, not the mass subjugation thereof for the benefit of a few. We recognize the primacy of the individual, the family, the company, and the country in deciding how each should protect and govern at their respective levels.
Trust minimization.
We aim to minimize the amount of trust you are required to place in third parties, Keychain included. We provide you the ability to managed cryptographic identity in a censorship-resistant way independent of unaccountable third parties, thereby giving control to those who actually bear liability (you).
Customer focus.
We offer data-security technology that solves real problems as experienced by you, and we define our success by your success. Further, we use standardized algorithms and data formats to minimize lock-in, ensuring that you have the ability to transform and verify your data independent of Keychain. You manage your keys, and you own your data and identities.
Simplicity.
We design with simplicity as a salient goal. We avoid applying solutions whose main benefit is sounding cool. That said, we follow wherever the problem leads us, even to unconventional solutions if necessary.

Trusted by the world’s most innovative teams

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Leadership

  • Jonathan Hope

    Co-founder and CEO

    Jonathan is a entrepreneur with deep technical experience in cyber security and financial market infrastructure. An accomplished applied cryptographer and computer scientist, Jonathan was recruited by top-tier securities trading brokerages on Wall Street to build high-performance high-frequency trading systems early in his career. Jonathan earned a reputation as a deliverer — someone who delivered high-risk, high-profile projects, under pressure. Jonathan moved on to close multimillion-dollar software license deals with top-tier global financial institutions as a Partner in an IT venture. Jonathan wrote Keychain's flagship product, Keychain Core, to solve cyber security problems he experienced while deploying trading systems and aims to revolutionize how we manage trust in the digital across multiple sectors.

  • Kazuyoshi Mishima

    Co-founder

    Kazuyoshi is a serial entrepreneur who has over twenty years of experience in fintech. Before Keychain, he worked at Kraken as its Japan business development manager. He is a board advisor to the Fintech Association Japan and served as a board member of the Japan Crypto Business Association, of which fifteen registered crypto currency exchanges in Japan are member. He worked at companies such as Softbank, SBI group, and Daiichi Kangyo Bank and graduated from Keio University.

  • Pieter Franken

    Senior Advisor to the CEO

    Pieter Franken is a passionate global Fintech Pioneer and a Deep Tech Innovator with many industry firsts under his belt. Career spanning well over 30+ years in the Financial Industry,specializing in technology leadership, FinTech, Financial Inclusion, GreenTech, AI, Cyber Security, digital innovation and large-scale digital transformations. C-level and executive positions with industry leaders such as Citigroup, Shinsei Bank, Aplus, Monex Group, Union Digital Bank and ModuleQ, and senior advisory/board positions including Elevandi (SFF), RegGenome Ltd., EmeradaCo and SAFECAST.ORG, a global NPO critically acclaimed for citizen sourced, open environmental data.

Awards

Recognized by the world's most esteemed organizaions

  • Global Fintech Award

    Global Fintech Award

    Association of Banks in Singapore

    Keychain was recognized for its achievement in integrating its data provenance platform with Internet of Things (IoT) and for demonstrating the technology to the Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry. Keychain was the first company representing Japan to receive the award. Keychain was the only blockchain company to be nominated and receive the Global Fintech Award.

  • Special Jury Prize

    Special Jury Prize

    Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry

    Keychain was recognized for its IoT blockchain platform.

  • Research Grant

    Research Grant

    Japan New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization

    Keychain refined its Keychain Core framework with the support of a research grant from the Japan New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Japan's largest public management organization promoting research and development.

Locations

Keychain is Asia-based and serving customers globally.

  • Singapore

    Address:
    Keychain Pte. Ltd.
    Prudential Building, 19-06
    30 Cecil St.
    Singapore 049712

  • Tokyo

    Address:
    Keychain GK
    Lattice Aoyama Square, 2F
    1-2-6 Minami Aoyama
    Minato-ku, Tokyo
    Japan 107-0062
    Capitalization:20,000,000 JPY
    Representative Director:Jonathan Hope