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Japan's Financial Services Agency submitted a landmark bill to parliament this week that would reclassify crypto assets as financial instruments, a move that coincides with new tabloid allegations that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's office may have known about the Sanae Token memecoin project befor

Rising yields on Japanese government bonds are driving institutional investors to shed risk assets including Bitcoin (BTC), with roughly ¥390 Trillion (approximately $2.6 Trillion) in bond holdings now exposed to heavy unrealized losses that could force further liquidation across global markets. Jap

Japanese government bond yields surged to multi-decade highs on January 20, with 30-year JGB yields reaching 3.88% and 10-year yields hitting 2.34%, threatening to drain liquidity from cryptocurrency markets. The yield spike makes the yen carry trade - borrowing cheaply in Japan to invest in higher-

Michael Novogratz, founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital on Monday said crypto markets may be setting up for a sharp upside move as global liquidity conditions shift, warning that digital assets could become the “pain trade” for professional investors who remain underexposed. Speaking in a year-end conv

Decentralized lending protocol Morpho announced support for JPYC, a regulated Japanese yen stablecoin, expanding non-dollar currency options in DeFi markets. The integration adds JPY-denominated liquidity on-chain for the first time at institutional scale. Steakhouse Financial plans to deploy a JPYC