{"id":216933,"date":"2026-08-22T18:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=216933"},"modified":"2026-08-22T18:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:29:18","slug":"japans-crypto-freeze-cracks-as-nomura-wins-coveted-new-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=216933","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Crypto Freeze Cracks as Nomura Wins Coveted New License"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nomura Holdings\u2019 Laser Digital Japan has cracked Japan\u2019s crypto licensing wall, ending a roughly four-year drought without a new industry entrant and planting one of the country\u2019s financial heavyweights squarely inside regulated digital-asset trading. Laser Digital Japan said this week that it completed registration as a Crypto Asset Exchange Service Provider under Japan\u2019s Payment Services [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomura Holdings\u2019 Laser Digital Japan has cracked Japan\u2019s crypto licensing wall, ending a roughly four-year drought without a new industry entrant and planting one of the country\u2019s financial heavyweights squarely inside regulated digital-asset trading. Laser Digital Japan said this week that it completed registration as a Crypto Asset Exchange Service Provider under Japan\u2019s Payment Services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":216934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}