Startrail’s Mission: “Building the Foundation of the Next Civilization by Bringing the World Onchain”

Startrail’s Mission: “Building the Foundation of the Next Civilization by Bringing the World Onchain”
Startrail’s mission is “to build the foundation of the next civilization by bringing the world onchain.”
In English: “Build the Next Civilization by Bringing the World Onchain.”
From its founding in 2023 through 2024, the company used slogans such as “Web3 for Billions” and “Bringing Billions Onchain.”
However, we came to realize that spreading Web3 or onchain technologies to billions of people was not the goal itself but rather a means to an end. When the means start to replace the purpose, something essential is lost—and we felt a deep sense of discomfort with that.
By beginning our activities in the United States in 2025, the direction of our business became clearer.
The key insight was that the true transformation does not lie merely in the technical progression from Web1 to Web2 to Web3.
Rather, it lies in the evolution from paper-based transactions, to online transactions, and now to onchain transactions.
Just as paper once revolutionized the preservation and transmission of knowledge, and the Internet connected people across the globe instantaneously, the moment billions of people are connected to the onchain economy, blockchain and crypto assets will become the essential infrastructure for the next stage of human civilization.
A world where billions engage in onchain transactions as part of their daily lives—
that, we believe, will mark the historical threshold where humanity steps into a new civilizational era.
One of my personal interests is historical research. Looking back through history, one can see that from the discovery of fire, to iron, electricity, railways, and the Internet, each foundational technology has interacted with others in complex ways to push humanity into its next stage of development.
Take iron, for example. Around 1200 BCE, during the Hittite Empire (in present-day eastern Turkey), the technology for smelting iron ore was established, making practical iron tools widespread. Compared to bronze, iron was cheaper and more durable, which led to the spread of iron plows, sickles, and axes. The iron tools developed by the Hittites gradually spread throughout the Mediterranean world over the following centuries. As a result, arable land expanded, productivity soared, and this supported population growth and urbanization.
By the 5th century BCE, Athens had a population of about 300,000 and flourished as a city-state.
When cities emerge and people gather, they begin to philosophize.
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—all were products of this urbanization.
This is an example of how material progress gives rise to intellectual and spiritual development.
Not only iron—throughout history, every foundational technology has transformed people’s lives, economies, and politics, ultimately propelling humanity forward.
In the first half of the 21st century, the foundational technologies that will define human progress are AI and blockchain.
Just as the Internet democratized information, AI will democratize intelligence, and blockchain will democratize value exchange.
The convergence of these technologies will fundamentally transform the economic system itself—ushering in a shift toward a more inclusive and efficient global economy.
The outcome will be the emergence of humanity’s first digitally native form of society, culture, and system—a new civilization, which might rightly be called a Digital Civilization.
At this great turning point in history, our role is to provide fair access to the onchain economy for billions of people worldwide, to realize the onchain transformation of the world, and to serve as the bridge to humanity’s next civilizational stage.
These are the thoughts that came to me while walking through the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
Would you like me to make this English version more polished and publication-ready (e.g., suitable for a corporate mission essay or PR statement)? I can adapt it to sound like a thought-leadership piece in the tone of a founder’s manifesto.