Japan Approves Crypto as Financial Assets, Sets 2027 Framework
The 2027 regime shift plus a 20% flat crypto tax rate is the first G7 framework built around the asset as investable product, not payment method.
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The 2027 regime shift plus a 20% flat crypto tax rate is the first G7 framework built around the asset as investable product, not payment method.
Senator Lummis told Fox Business bill text drops within days and a floor vote could come as soon as next week, with an August 7 recess deadline that makes the window unusually tight.
Polymarket odds of a July Fed hike collapsed from 34% to 6.7% after the CPI print, but Brent above $85 and Fed Chair Warsh's caution leave traders reading the next move as data-dependent, not dovish.
The headline grabber is the $4.3B distribution by 100–1,000 BTC wallets on July 13, but the structural read is supply rotating from older whales into newer ones while ETF demand sits roughly 22x…
BTC holds $64.6K after Tuesday's soft CPI push while Strait of Hormuz saber-rattling trims overnight gains and keeps the market consolidating rather than breaking out.
A $60.50-a-share offer, 28% over Tuesday's close, would fold the two most visible names pushing stablecoins onto mainstream rails into a single balance sheet.
Circle's $1.4B distribution bill to Coinbase in 2025, up from $924.5M a year earlier, shows why growing USDC no longer means growing Circle's take: platforms holding the users now capture the bulk of…
Including digital assets in the framework that governs state-administered funds would put South Korea among the first major Asian economies to formally recognize crypto at the sovereign balance-sheet…
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 two Tron-wallet freezes represent a structural shift: Washington can now reach dollar liquidity held directly on a public blockchain by leaning on the stablecoin issuer's blacklist, bypassing the…
A Japan Upper House committee just greenlit reclassification of crypto as financial instruments, opening the door to spot Bitcoin ETFs as early as 2027, while a cooler US CPI print gave risk assets a…
The absence of Ethereum outflows across all 10 funds broadened the positive signal beyond Bitcoin's larger dollar intake.
The $239M combined haul split almost entirely through BlackRock's IBIT and ETHA, and the second-largest July inflow arrived without a single fund bleeding on either side.
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…