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By Sydney TheCMO
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Four Years, No New Registrations — Until Now. Japan froze new crypto exchange approvals back in 2022.
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Shiba Inu's Climb Through Japan's Regulatory Framework. Shiba Inu's path to Laser Digital's launch list didn't come out of nowhere.
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What Laser Digital's Launch Means for the Market. Stablecoin adoption and broader digital asset integration across Asia have moved fast in recent…
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Japan just got its first new crypto exchange registration in four years. Laser Digital Japan, the local arm of Nomura Group's digital assets subsidiary, cleared registration…
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The six tokens set to trade on the platform are Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Shiba Inu. That's it, at least for now.
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Japan froze new crypto exchange approvals back in 2022. The country spent that stretch pushing through major regulatory reforms, including new rules around stablecoins and…
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Laser Digital Japan breaking that four-year drought is kind of a big deal on its own. And the fact that it's Nomura's subsidiary doing it makes the story even harder to ignore.
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The plan, at least initially, is to boost liquidity for local Virtual Asset Service Providers — VASPs, in the shorthand.
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Shiba Inu's path to Laser Digital's launch list didn't come out of nowhere. Back in November 2025, SHIB got added to the Japan Virtual and Crypto Assets Exchange Association's…
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Then in April, Rakuten Wallet listed SHIB. Rakuten is one of Japan's bigger crypto exchanges, and the listing let users trade SHIB against the yen and even convert Rakuten Points…
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Read also: Laser Digital Japan Secures First New Crypto Exchange License in Four Years
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So by the time Laser Digital Japan announced its initial token lineup, SHIB had already cleared two significant hurdles in the Japanese market.
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It's worth pausing on what that trajectory looks like from the outside. A token that launched in 2020 as a so-called "Dogecoin killer" meme coin is now listed on a…
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Stablecoin adoption and broader digital asset integration across Asia have moved fast in recent years, and Japan has been working to keep its regulatory framework ahead of the…
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For Shiba Inu specifically, the Laser Digital listing probably matters most in terms of institutional visibility. Retail traders in Japan already had access through Rakuten Wallet.
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