{"id":629694,"date":"2026-07-15T11:53:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/japan-passes-crypto-overhaul-to-bring-digital-assets-under-financial-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:53:41","slug":"japan-passes-crypto-overhaul-to-bring-digital-assets-under-financial-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/japan-passes-crypto-overhaul-to-bring-digital-assets-under-financial-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan passes crypto overhaul to bring digital assets under financial rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-us-crypto-bills-compared-stable-act.png\" alt=\"Japan passes crypto overhaul to bring digital assets under financial rules\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s revised Financial Instruments and Exchange Act introduces crypto insider trading rules, tougher penalties and new oversight requirements for crypto businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is set to reshape its cryptocurrency market with stricter trading rules, stronger user protections and a framework closer to traditional finance.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s parliament on Wednesday passed revisions that classify crypto assets as financial assets under Japan\u2019s Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/article\/DGXZQOUB147UL0U6A710C2000000\/#:~:text=%E6%9A%97%E5%8F%B7%E8%B3%87%E7%94%A3%EF%BC%88%E4%BB%AE%E6%83%B3%E9%80%9A%E8%B2%A8%EF%BC%89%E3%82%84,%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85%E4%BF%9D%E8%AD%B7%E3%82%92%E5%9B%B3%E3%82%8B%E3%80%82\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to a report by local news agency Nikkei.<\/p>\n<p>The changes move Japan\u2019s crypto regulation away from the Payment Services Act (PSA), which treated digital assets primarily as payment instruments, and introduce insider trading rules and stronger oversight for crypto businesses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/japan-crypto-amendment-digital-assets-financial-rules\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s revised Financial Instruments and Exchange Act introduces crypto insider trading rules, tougher penalties and new oversight requirements for crypto businesses. Japan is set to reshape its cryptocurrency market with stricter trading rules, stronger user protections and a framework closer to traditional finance. The country\u2019s parliament on Wednesday passed revisions that classify crypto assets as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-629694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}