Japan's DeFi Gateway Takes Shape with Uniswap, Base, and Nyx Foundation

SMBC Nikko Securities and Nethermind have partnered with Uniswap Labs, Base, and Nyx Foundation to build a Japan-focused DeFi Gateway. The project aims to provide Japanese investors with a controlled route into decentralized finance. The gateway will use Uniswap v4 hooks to add anti-money laundering, counterterrorism financing, and investor protection controls.

The partners plan to develop an open framework for liquidity pools using Uniswap v4 hooks. This framework will include asset-deployment strategies covering digital assets such as stablecoins and real-world assets. The project will also explore the use of 'agentic vaults' using verifiable and reproducible AI.

The DeFi Gateway is expected to be completed by mid-2027. Progress will be shared with Japan's Financial Services Agency, but no live product has launched yet. The partners are separately exploring the use of tokenized securities, with Base seeing growing trading activity in this area.