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Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken will operate in Japan for the first time in two years. The company said Tuesday its Japanese subsidiary, Payward Asia Ltd., completed the regulatory registration process and has been granted a permit to operate as a crypto asset exchange business in the country. Source
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Major Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck has launched an initial exchange offering platform for raising funds through utility tokens.According to an Aug. 25 announcement from Coincheck, the crypto exchange will be partnering with Japanese company Hashpalette to implement an initial exchange offering (IEO) to sell Palette Tokens (PLT) on the Ethereum
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Coinbase processed $500,000 in bitcoin payments that aided the dramatic escape of former Nissan Motor Co. chairman Carlos Ghosn from Japan, according to Bloomberg.In December, two Americans used a box to smuggle Ghosn out of the Asian country, where he was facing criminal charges for embezzlement and financial manipulation.The
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Masayoshi Amamiya, the Bank of Japan executive governor, said that a CBDC may play a central role in interoperability between many emerging digital assets in the country.The Bank of Japan (BoJ) announced that it has constituted a new research team for a CBDC project. The bank also said that the
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The Bank of Japan announced on July 20 that it had formed a new team to accelerate research into the feasibility of central bank digital currencies (CBDC).The team takes over from a previous group formed earlier this year, and will also continue research work undertaken with other central banks. BoJ
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Major Japanese exchange Huobi is asking its users to vote before August 16 on which new cryptocurrencies they would like to see listed. According to an update on the Huobi website posted on July 16, the Japan-based exchange is considering adding Enjin (ENJ), IOS Token (IOST), Neo (NEO), Ontology (ONT), Qtum
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This week’s headlines from Japan included real estate player Tosei and Tokyo Financial Holdings listing an asset-backed digital financial product, Cryptox Japan interviewing a former Japanese central bank staffer, Coinage registering as an exchange with Japan's financial services agency, and a life insurance company testing digital asset billing transaction. Check out
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The Brave Browser is set to offer Basic Attention Token (BAT) wallets on bitFlyer. It’s going to be Brave’s first cryptocurrency wallet partner in Japan.Brave Browser will offer Basic Attention Token (BAT) wallets in Japan. Sources say that cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer has partnered with Brave Software International SEZC (Brave’s subsidiary). This partnership
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The Bank of Japan has announced it will begin experimenting with a central bank digital currency (CBDC) to check its feasibility from a technical perspective.BoJ wants to digitize cash but it remains to be seen if Japan can catch up with China which has already begun testing its own CBDC.
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Japanese blockchain company Soramitsu announced it would start testing a new local digital currency for retailers at the University of Aizu.According to a June 29 report in the Nikkei newspaper, Soramitsu will begin testing “White Tiger,” a digital currency sitting on the company’s native Hyperledger Iroha blockchain. The digital asset
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