Japan Passes Law Recognizing Crypto as Financial Assets
The reclassification puts Japan alongside Singapore and the EU in treating digital assets as financial instruments under securities law, with first-mover weight for Asia's institutional flows.
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The reclassification puts Japan alongside Singapore and the EU in treating digital assets as financial instruments under securities law, with first-mover weight for Asia's institutional flows.
Parliament's FIEA amendment ends the 55% crypto tax penalty and puts digital assets inside the same regulatory framework that already covers stocks and bonds, a legitimacy step institutions have…
The absence of Ethereum outflows across all 10 funds broadened the positive signal beyond Bitcoin's larger dollar intake.
The market broadens access to a major Chinese semiconductor company whose STAR Market listing carries a RMB 500,000 investor threshold.
The reclassification opens the door to spot Bitcoin ETFs in Japan's $5T retail savings pool and slashes crypto tax rates toward a flat 20%, aligning digital assets with traditional securities.
DIGIT puts sterling government debt on a Bank of England-sanctioned distributed ledger through HSBC's Orion platform, with the BoE preparing to accept the tokenized gilt as collateral in its own…
The National Asset Basic Act pulls virtual assets, intellectual property, and other novel classes into the same oversight regime the state already uses for traditional holdings, formalizing crypto's…
June CPI slowed to 3.5% YoY and core inflation to 2.6%, handing risk assets a clean macro tailwind and pushing BTC up 3.71% on the session.
A takeover would combine Stripe's stablecoin push with PayPal's PYUSD footprint, but the parties have not secured an agreement.
The x402 Foundation's 40-member roster reads like a who's who of payments, but the headline metric is a 32-cent average payment: proof stablecoin rails can serve machine-to-machine traffic no card…
Both spot ETF complexes stayed green on the same day, a joint print that keeps the post-launch cumulative bid for both assets quietly grinding higher without a single session of dramatic flows.
The memory-chip challenger prices the float at the top of guidance, and the order book already shows heavy retail accumulation at levels well below the print.
If the offer lands it would be the largest take-private in payments since the post-pandemic era, and the clearest signal yet that legacy checkout players are being repriced for a stablecoin-and-API…
A top US-listed exchange replacing nearly all of its production code with AI agents re-rates the productivity baseline every other publicly traded tech and finance employer will be measured against.
A nine-figure unlock hitting 121 wallets is the kind of supply event memecoins rarely absorb cleanly, and the on-chain footprint of the recipients is now the only filter that matters.
The purchase, sourced from FalconX, lands as BitMine continues to stack ETH at a steady institutional cadence, reinforcing the treasury-accumulation thesis around the largest corporate ETH holder.
Head of Platform Rob Witoff put the figure at essentially full coverage this week, against a backdrop of May layoffs that shrank engineering teams toward the AI-augmented model.
The allocation favors stablecoin exposure despite Mizuho’s Underperform rating on Circle, while reducing Ark’s position in Robinhood.
The fourth-largest U.S. brokerage now routes trading through ZeroHash and Paxos and lets clients move USDC, PYUSD and RLUSD in and out of broker accounts to external wallets.
Two amended S-1s land the same week a flood of altcoin-ETF filings have hit the SEC's desk, and the inclusion of staking puts Morgan Stanley's products in a category of one.