Japan Crypto News

Japan said it would expand investments in the metaverse in 2022. Today, 10 Japanese firms joined forces to create the metaverse economic zone.

FTX Japan said it would announce the resumption of its services soon, according to a Feb. 20 press statement.

The pilot program aims to test the technical feasibility not fully covered by the PoCs and onboard the private sector.

The two biggest creditors are expected to take payment in BTC in Sept. 2023.

The impact of the FTX meltdown has outstripped the crypto ecosystem and leeched into the mainstream tech industry and beyond.

The exchange said leaving Japan is part of its restructuring process that will help it weather the bear market.

A top official says the U.S. and Europe should closely supervise crypto firms.

Due to Japan's liberal regulations, the crypto market in the country has a lot of potential, according to Monex's CEO.

The full closure will come after Coinbase finalizes discussions with Japanese regulators.

Mt. Gox has set March 10 as new deadline for repayment registration and approved creditors will now receive their BTC on Sept. 30 instead of July 31.

Kraken said affected users should withdraw their funds before Jan. 31, 2023, and added that deposits will be suspended by Jan. 9, 2023.

Even though the recent bear market isn't encouraging for Bitcoin, which has fallen by 66% since January, it's still better than the bear market of 2018.

Remittances through these stablecoins are limited to 1 million yen ($7500) per transaction.

Binance freezes $3 million after the Ankr attacker stole 6 quadrillions of aBNB, data shows over  8% of Bitcoin was purchased between $15,5K and. $17K, and much more in this edition of CryptoSlate Wrapped Daily.

The new FTX trading management team has approved the plan to resume withdrawal services, the Japanese subsidiary announced on Thursday.

Binance now controls over 75% of exchnages' monthly trading volume, according to available data.

Asia currently holds 7.3% of the total Bitcoin supply as market moves inversely to the West

Japan Credit Bureau announced it will start the “JCBDC“ pilot project to test contactless credit-card based settlement solutions for general use retail CBDC despite the central banks' cancellation of its CBDC project.