{"id":35381,"date":"2021-01-26T17:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35381"},"modified":"2025-08-29T01:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T22:03:35","slug":"report-japans-top-brokers-lift-earnings-thanks-to-proprietary-bitcoin-exchanges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/report-japans-top-brokers-lift-earnings-thanks-to-proprietary-bitcoin-exchanges\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Japan&#8217;s top brokers lift earnings thanks to proprietary Bitcoin exchanges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three leading online brokers in Japan\u2014SBI, Rakuten, and Monex\u2014are competing with cryptocurrency exchanges for a share of the digital-asset market, according to a new Messari report.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Your definitive guide to Asia\u2019s crypto landscape, by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/asiahodl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@asiahodl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This 99 page masterpiece will give you a better understanding of one of crypto\u2019s most critical yet often under-studied regions.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_blockdaemon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@_blockdaemon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qYfRNBQH1y\">https:\/\/t.co\/qYfRNBQH1y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Messari (@MessariCrypto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MessariCrypto\/status\/1351689216166686722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to researchers, the operating revenue and [simple_tooltip content=\u2019\u0440\u0430\u0437\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0430 \u043c\u0435\u0436\u0434\u0443 \u0430\u043a\u0442\u0438\u0432\u0430\u043c\u0438 \u0438 \u043e\u0431\u044f\u0437\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0430\u043c\u0438 \u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0438\u2019]net assets[\/simple_tooltip] of exchange platforms operated by Japan&#8217;s leading brokers are rapidly catching up with their crypto rivals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123087\" style=\"width: 712px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123087\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123087\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-01-26-16.48.31.jpg\" alt=\"Report: Japan's top brokers boosted income from proprietary Bitcoin exchanges\" width=\"702\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-01-26-16.48.31.jpg 702w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021-01-26-16.48.31-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-123087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Data: Messari, August 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The largest Japanese exchange is bitFlyer, with custody assets exceeding $1 billion and net assets of $146 million as of August 2020. The Liquid exchange ranked among the ten cryptocurrency unicorns by the end of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>ForkLog previously reported that, according to Messari, Asia accounts for <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/messari-asia-remains-the-epicentre-of-cryptocurrency-market-activity\">43% of global cryptocurrency transactions<\/a>, 70% of Bitcoin&#8217;s hashrate and six of ten &#8220;unicorns&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog News on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three leading online brokers in Japan\u2014SBI, Rakuten, and Monex\u2014are competing with cryptocurrency exchanges for a share of the digital-asset market, according to a new Messari report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1166,135,1468,167,1211],"class_list":["post-35381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-japan","tag-messari","tag-research","tag-stock-market"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35383,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35381\/revisions\/35383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}