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By Dan Saada
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Coincheck Moves One Day Earlier. Ripple wasn't alone. Coincheck Group — one of Japan's better-known crypto exchanges — beat them to…
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Asia's Adoption Numbers Are Hard to Ignore. The Asia-Pacific region saw a 69% year-over-year increase in value received, per Chainalysis' 2025…
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What the Infrastructure Gap Actually Means. It's worth being direct about what "infrastructure gap" actually means in practice.
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Ripple moved fast. The company confirmed Tuesday it's teaming up with SettleMint to push digital asset custody and lifecycle management tools directly at financial institutions…
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The deal merges Ripple's existing digital asset custody infrastructure with SettleMint's Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform, known as DALP.
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Ripple wasn't alone. Coincheck Group — one of Japan's better-known crypto exchanges — beat them to the announcement by a day, dropping its own partnership with DFNS on Monday.
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DFNS runs a wallet-as-a-service platform. It covers transaction lifecycle management across more than 100 blockchain networks, which is a big number for any institution trying to…
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And it's not just about technology. The regulatory ground in Japan shifted recently. Parliament revised legislation to formally classify crypto assets as financial assets under…
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The Asia-Pacific region saw a 69% year-over-year increase in value received, per Chainalysis' 2025 global adoption index. That's not a marginal uptick.
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Stablecoin adoption across the region has grown sharply too. Countries from Singapore to South Korea to Japan are either finalizing or actively building out crypto regulatory…
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More context: Ripple Donates $300,000 for Urgent Nepal Flood Relief Efforts as Death Toll Exceeds 100
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That's exactly why custody and lifecycle management tools matter so much right now. Institutions can't just plug into a crypto exchange and call it a day.
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Ripple's angle is custody-first. SettleMint brings the lifecycle layer — issuance, management, the operational side of handling tokenized assets at scale.
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Coincheck's play with DFNS is narrower geographically but hits the same nerve. Japan is arguably the most institutionally mature crypto market in Asia right now, partly because…
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It's worth being direct about what "infrastructure gap" actually means in practice. Regulated institutions need custody solutions that meet the same standards as traditional…
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