Japan’s central bank is running blockchain settlement experiments and advancing tokenized central bank money initiatives ahead of a 2026 decision on issuing a digital yen.

The Bank of Japan is moving to place central bank reserve money onto blockchain infrastructure, a step that marks the first G7 central bank validation of distributed ledger techno ...

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SBI Holdings and Startale reveal JPYSC, a trust-backed yen stablecoin targeting Q2 2026 launch, pending regulatory approval.