{"id":47933,"date":"2021-08-19T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T08:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=47933"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T20:47:11","slug":"coinbase-to-launch-cryptocurrency-exchange-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/coinbase-to-launch-cryptocurrency-exchange-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Coinbase to launch cryptocurrency exchange in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitcoin exchange Coinbase announced its entry into the Japanese market in partnership with financial giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-lang=\\\"en\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">\ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5BIG NEWS!\ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re excited to be launching Coinbase in Japan, one of the first countries to embrace crypto and one of the largest markets by crypto trading volume in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Details here \ud83d\udc47<a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZhsYiE3L2a\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZhsYiE3L2a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Coinbase (@coinbase) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coinbase\/status\/1428189370746474500?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">August 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The company announced the launch of Coinbase Japan, described as \\&#8221;fully compliant with local regulations\\&#8221;, as part of its global strategy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the MUFG partnership, serving 40 million customers in the country, is designed to ensure from day one the ability to deposit and withdraw fiat funds.<\/p>\n<p>Initially the exchange will offer retail products to Japanese customers, including \\&#8221;five core assets\\&#8221;, which it did not name.<\/p>\n<p>One user <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LifeCryptic\/status\/1428206187217047561\\\">\u0432\u044b\u043b\u043e\u0436\u0438\u043b <\/a>a fragment of Coinbase\u2019s registration application with the Japanese Financial Services Agency. It lists Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Stellar Lumen (XLM) and Litecoin (LTC).<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, Coinbase plans to add more assets to the Japanese platform and localize its products and services, including those aimed at corporate clients.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, Coinbase&#8217;s revenue for the second quarter of 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/coinbase-posts-2-2-billion-in-second-quarter-revenue\">amounted to $2.2 billion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">VK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitcoin exchange Coinbase announced its entry into the Japanese market in partnership with financial giant Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47934,"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":[1166,138,135,2236],"class_list":["post-47933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-coinbase","tag-japan","tag-mitsubishi-ufj"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47933","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=47933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47935,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47933\/revisions\/47935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}