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In a recent blog on Ripple Insights, Sagar Sarbhai, the company's Head of Government and Regulatory Relations for APAC and the Middle East, talked about how the company helped Japan become a leading digital asset market. Also Read: Ripple Explains How RippleNet Can Help Unlock Global Liquidity Bottlenecks The blog starts with...

In a recent article on Ripple Insights, the real-time gross settlement solutions company's blog, Ripple discussed how RippleNet is putting the power in the hands of Japanese bankers and traders. The company starts off by discussing how people struggle to provide for their families—even moving out of their own nations for...

The Japanese tech giant, Hitachi has partnered up with a Japanese telecommunications company KDDI, to develop a new blockchain based system for the retail industry that can make shopping easier. Together, the two companies are testing a new system for making payments. While blockchain is continuously being explored in the...

The premiere banking consortium of Japan, SBI Group, had announced the launch of a virtual currencies platform in June 2018. Named as SBI Virtual Currencies , the platform has started accepting new users starting today. The exchange was initially launched exclusively with XRP(XRP) but later the exchange added Bitcoin (BTC)...

Bithumb,a major Korean Exchange is planning to launch in the Japanese and Thai cryptocurrency market. It is working towards obtaining approval from the financial regulatory bodies of these countries. Bithumb is the second largest exchange in South Korea with a 24 trading volume of $358 million behind Upbit that has...

Coinsquare, the Canadian crypto exchange has announced its plans to enter the Japanese market. It is waiting for approval from Japan’s financial regulators. They have partnered up with DLTA 21 Blockchain Corp., a Canadian blockchain investment bank for this purpose and it will be launched under the DLTA brand. According...

Binance will donate $1 million to Japan, where at least 100 people have died and millions are evacuating after massive rains that caused floods and landslides in the region. Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is the largest multilingual cryptocurrency exchange in terms of volume of data which...

In an announcement on Wednesday, the Sacramento Kings declared that they are currently mining Ethereum. By doing this, they become the first sports team to enter the crypto space. They are also introducing crypto to sport fans and are giving it to a local group that supports black communities for...

FSA (Financial Services Agency), Japan’s financial watchdog, has sent business improvement orders to six crypto exchanges operating in Japan, according to an announcement made by the agency on Friday. According to the press releases on FSA’s official website, the agency has demanded a risk management overhaul – focused on AML...

A Japanese village has announced that it is going to launch an ICO (Initial Coin Offering) to secure funds to create a sustainable region. This is the first time a municipality in Japan has decided to raise funds using a token sale. Nishiawakura Village is located in the southern part...

Japanese prosecutors have arrested 16 individuals in an ongoing criminal case of Monero crypto jacking, The Asahi Shimbun reports on Friday. Cryptojacking can be described as a practice of using the processing power of unsuspecting users in an attempt to mine cryptocurrency for attackers. According to the report published by...

Coinbase is currently operating in 32 countries with major pairing with global currencies. Now it is planning to move into the Japanese Market. The idea is to increase the global outreach of crypto coins. In the years gone by Coinbase had provided best services to US, European and American Buyer....

An established Japanese Corporation, Abic Corporation, announced the launch of its Bitcoin loan Service wherein loans will offer Bitcoin (BTC) as collateral. The company claims this is the first service where collateral, for obtaining loans in Japanese yen, will be cryptocurrency. Abic Corporation is headquartered in Tokyo. It offers varied kind...

BitTrade, a Japanese crypto exchange has been acquired for S$67 million (50 million USD) by a Singaporean multi-millionaire and businessman as reported by Asia One. Mr. Eric Cheng will take a 100 percent stake in BitTrade Co., Ltd, as per the acquisition. BitTrade is one of the 16 domestic crypto exchanges...

Crypto learning courses and seminars are on the rise in Thailand, Japan, and South Korea. For Japanese investors, Bit Station and Bitcoin no Madoguchi have decided to offer guidance for investing in cryptocurrency. And, in Thailand, Cryptonist’s seminar and the Cryptoasset Revolution course are going to happen very soon. Meanwhile,...

Japan's corporate world is by all accounts fancying the digital platform's side of cryptocurrencies. In the latest news, Japan is planning to clasp six new crypto-exchanges in their arms. The listed public companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has established these crypto-platforms. Japan already owns 16 fully licensed crypto-exchanges and...

A network attack on Monacoin, a cryptocurrency developed in Japan, caused roughly 90,000 USD in damages between May 13th and 15th. As it appears the attack was a selfish mining attack, where one miner manages to successfully mine a block on the blockchain without broadcasting the new block to the...

The financial regulator in Japan, Financial Services Agency (FSA), has been quietly advising cryptocurrency exchanges in the country to quit trading Zcash, Dash, and Monero. The three cryptocurrencies are seen to be favored by money launderers as well as others who engage in criminal activities. The decision to discourage cryptocurrency...