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The Tokyo-listed bitcoin treasury doubles down on its JPY-rail roots, pairing BTC collateral with stablecoins and tokenized infrastructure to bypass banking-hour settlement constraints.
Finance Minister Katayama's push to steer GPIF into domestic bonds hands holders negative real yields, the textbook setup that Russell Napier says drives capital into hard assets like bitcoin and…
The third-largest public bitcoin holder is studying how to tokenize its 43,000 BTC treasury into credit instruments with 24/7 settlement, a product category Japan has not yet seen at scale.
Four Japanese firms are exploring a 24/7 market for Bitcoin-collateralized debt instruments with daily interest accrual, a structural piece of the country's tokenization push.
SBI VC Trade says corporate accounts have doubled since 2025 as the carry-trade unwind meets a yen that's lost its carry, forcing balance-sheet diversification into hard assets.
SBI VC Trade's registered accounts have crossed 2 million, doubling since 2025, as a weak yen pushes corporate Japan to spread reserves beyond cash and into crypto.
The Hiroshima-area build is the largest single foreign chip capex announcement in Japan this year and a direct bet that HBM demand outruns the current cycle into 2027.
The Japanese financial group's exit pulls roughly 2% of network hashrate off the table with a month to migrate, layering fresh pool-concentration risk onto a sector already squeezed on margins.
The Tokyo-listed buyer's pace has roughly doubled its BTC stash in less than five months, making it the largest non-US corporate holder and tightening a corporate bid that the broader market is…
Architect Partners frames the eight-times-revenue multiple as a purchase of a regulated seat, not a profitable exchange, with up to half of Japan's 27 registered venues expected to disappear under…
SBI's JPYSC is the first trust-type yen stablecoin under the FSA's 2023 framework, and it lands the same week Korea, the Philippines, and Russia each moved on stablecoin rails.
Japan's $440B daily FX market now anchors a four-stablecoin race: RLUSD gets the head start through SBI, USDC gains a corporate lane via Nomura, JPYSC holds the yen lane, and megabank issuance looms…
Tokyo's SBI is doubling into domestic crypto infrastructure ahead of a reclassification that pulls tokens under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, betting consolidation happens before rules…
The deal lands as the first global dollar stablecoin cleared for Japanese corporate use, and it ties USDC directly into Nomura's client onboarding, compliance stack, and existing banking rails ahead…
The deal vaults SBI past every rival in Japan's regulated crypto market on a single stroke, putting roughly $6.2B in customer assets behind one balance sheet.
SBI already runs a domestic crypto arm and backs several tokenised-asset initiatives, so taking Bitbank fully in-house consolidates a regulated retail venue under a balance sheet that regulators…
Approval gives Ripple a regulated yen corridor to a G7 market where licensed banks and trust companies have dominated stablecoin issuance, putting RLUSD in rare company among non-domestic entrants.
Japan runs one of the world's strictest stablecoin regimes, so clearing a foreign-issued dollar token for both institutional and retail use is a credential the rest of Asia will read closely.
Japan is the first major Asian market for Ripple's dollar stablecoin, and SBI VC Trade is the only on-ramp. Distribution is the gate now, not the approval.
JPYSC sidesteps the 1M yen cap that defined Japan's first generation of regulated stablecoins, and the trust-bank reserve structure puts it closer to US and European bank-issued stablecoin models…
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