The Japan Crypto Sixteen

Norbert Gehrke
Tokyo FinTech
Published in
2 min readJan 4, 2018
There are now 16 fully approved & regulated crypto exchanges in Japan (up from 11 in September)

Following their initial approval of eleven cryptocurrency exchanges on September 29, 2017, another five were officially licensed before the year-end by the Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA), requiring an update to our original article from early October.

On December 1, the FSA granted approval to the following exchanges, with only Xtheta, processed through the regional financial bureau in Osaka, allowed to trade more than BTC:

Bit Arg Exchange Tokyo
株式会社ビットアルゴ取引所東京
BTC

FTT Corporation
エフ・ティ・ティ株式会社
BTC

Tokyo Bitcoin Exchange
株式会社DMM Bitcoin
BTC

Xtheta Corporation (Osaka)
株式会社Xtheta
BCC/BTC/ETC/ETH/LTC/MONA/XCP/XEM/XRP

On December 26, one more approval followed.

BITOCEAN
株式会社BITOCEAN
BTC

At the time of the September approval, it was noted that 17 applications were still being processed. So this implies that 12 further exchanges are in the pipeline, including Coincheck, Japan’s second largest.

Here is the list of the original eleven:

Bit Bank Corporation
ビットバンク株式会社
BCC/BTC/ETH/LTC/MONA/XRP

Bit Point Japan
株式会社ビットポイントジャパン
BCC/BTC/ETH/LTC/XRP

Bit Trade
ビットトレード株式会社
BCC/BTC/ETH/LTC/MONA/XRP

BitFlyer
株式会社bitFlyer
BCH/BTC/ETC/ETH

BTC Box
BTCボックス株式会社
BCC/BTC

Fiscal Virtual Currency Exchange (Osaka)
株式会社フィスコ仮想通貨取引所
BCH/BTC/CICC/FSCC/MONA/NCXC

GMO Coin
GMOコイン株式会
BTC

Money Partners
株式会社マネーパートナーズ
BTC

QUOINE
QUOINE株式会社
BCH/BTC/ETH

SBI Virtual Currencies
SBIバーチャル・カレンシーズ株式会社
BTC

Tech Bureau (Osaka)
テックビューロ株式会社
BCH/BCY/BTC/CICC/FSCC/MONA/NCXC/PEPECASH/SJCX/XCP/XEM/ZAIF/ZEN

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Norbert Gehrke
Tokyo FinTech

Passionate about strategy & innovation across Asia. At home in Japan. Connector of people & ideas.