Japanese Crypto Users Lost $6 Million in Hacks Last Year, Say Police Around $6.2 million-worth of cryptocurrency was hacked from exchange accounts and wallet services in 2017, Japan’s National Police Agency says.… Read More
Waking Dragon? Asia’s Token Economy Is Charging Full Speed Ahead At the Token 2049 conference in Hong Kong, Asia’s vibrant market for cryptocurrencies and ICOs took the spotlight.… Read More
G20 Reveals Names and Dates for Next Week’s Crypto Talks Cryptocurrencies are “an important item” on the agenda for next week’s G20 summit, documents show.… Read More
Japan to Call for G20 Action on Crypto Money Laundering Japan is reportedly planning to use the G20 meeting next week to call for combined efforts to combat cryptocurrency use in money laundering.… Read More
Japan’s SBI Group Scraps Huobi Crypto Exchange Partnership SBI Virtual Currency, a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, will no longer partner with Huobi Group on setting up two Japan-based cryptocurrency exchanges.… Read More
Coincheck Exchange to Compensate Hack Victims From Next Week Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck has said it plans to compensate victims of its January hack starting next week. … Read More
Japanese Regulators Suspend Two Crypto Exchanges Japan’s Financial Services Agency is halting the operation of two domestic crypto exchanges while requiring six exchanges to report improvement plans.… Read More
Report: Japanese Regulator Could Suspend Some Crypto Exchanges Nikkei reports that Japan’s Financial Services Agency will hit some cryptocurrency exchanges with penalties and suspend others for poor practices.… Read More
Japanese Banks to Harness Ripple DLT for Consumer Payments App A group of Japanese banks is planning to use Ripple’s blockchain-based payments technology in a smartphone app aimed at general consumers.… Read More
Japan’s Crypto Exchanges Self-Regulate In Wake of $500 Million Hack Sixteen cryptocurrency exchanges in Japan have formed a new self-regulatory organization, an effort that comes in the wake of a $500 million hack.… Read More