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Japan’s Crypto Market Grows Up, and Institutions Are Starting to Pay Attention
For most of the past decade, Japan’s relationship with crypto was complicated. The country was an early mover on regulation after the Mt. Gox collapse, but the rules it built treated digital assets essentially like digital cash rather than investment instruments. That framing kept a lot of institutional money on the sidelines. That is changing in a meaningful way. Japan’s Financial Services Agency has been working to bring crypto under the same legal structure that governs conventional financial products, a shift that carries real weight for institutions that need regulatory clarity before they can allocate. ... (full story)