Bitcoin Hit a Two-Week High on a Peace Deal It Doesn't Fully Trust.
A US-Iran deal to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz sent oil sliding and Bitcoin above $65,500, a two-week high. The catch: it fixes oil, not crypto's demand problem.
A US-Iran deal to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz sent oil sliding and Bitcoin above $65,500, a two-week high. The catch: it fixes oil, not crypto's demand problem.
A 3-year-high CPI sent gold tumbling while Bitcoin held near $61,400. Under the price noise, Tether wired wallets into robots and Japan's banks planned a stablecoin.
Japan's second-largest telecom bought 14.9% of Coincheck, the exchange that lost $530 million in 2018 and rebuilt from scratch. The deal closes in June.
A Polymarket contract asking whether Prabowo Subianto would leave power before 2029 went live on May 21. By May 22, Indonesia's Ministry of Communication had blocked the site nationwide. The government froze 33,000 bank accounts linked to online betting earlier this year. This is the second Asian country to ban Polymarket in a single week.
Spain's Consumer Rights Ministry ordered ISPs to block both platforms after finding they operate without gambling licenses. The ban follows a Polymarket contract on PM Sanchez leaving office and a Kalshi market pricing his exit at 29%. The block list now includes India, Indonesia, Brazil, Ukraine, France, Belgium, Australia, Portugal, Argentina, the Netherlands, and Spain.
Weekly volumes have crossed $1 billion on leading platforms. Asia has three of the world's five largest economies. The problem is that China, South Korea, and Japan all treat most forms of wagering as illegal by default.
Pi Network is down 94% from its all-time high with daily unlocks creating persistent sell pressure. A three-phase protocol upgrade targeting smart contracts by May could shift the narrative, but Binance listing remains absent.
Network activity rebounds from weekly lows while Rakuten Wallet prepares to bring SHIB to 44 million users in Japan. A $440 million short liquidation wave and Steve Aoki's full exit frame the contrasting forces shaping SHIB's outlook.
Finance Minister Roland Lescure calls euro stablecoin volume "not satisfactory" and endorses a 12-bank consortium building a MiCA-compliant alternative to dollar dominance.
Japan is a major crypto market with clear regulation, active retail participation, and home to Metaplanet, the region’s most aggressive corporate Bitcoin buyer. This tag tracks FSA regulation and tax reform, the exchange landscape, corporate treasury adoption in the Asia-Pacific market, stablecoin and yen-linked developments, and the policy shifts that shape one of Asia’s most established digital-asset economies. Coinliva covers the regulation, the corporate moves, and the market signals from Japan.