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Japan finance minister says 2026 will be the year of digital assets as integration with traditional finance accelerates

Japan is stepping up efforts to integrate digital assets with traditional finance. Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said exchanges play a decisive role in widening public access to digital and blockchain-based assets and pledged government support for innovation. She cited U.S. crypto ETFs and said Japan could adopt a similar structure, though none exist domestically. Japan has discussed allowing banks to treat crypto like stocks or government bonds and approved a yen-linked stablecoin JPYC.

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Chinese financial associations reclassify RWA as risky business model

Major Chinese financial associations have reclassified real-world asset tokenisation (RWA) as a risky business model, a move seen as signalling tighter digital asset regulation, Cointelegraph reported citing Wu Blockchain. The associations said RWA is no longer treated as a new technology and is grouped with stablecoins, air coins and mining as illegal activity. They said RWA fundraising and trading via tokens carry risks including fraud, operational failure and speculative hype, and said no RWA activity has been approved by Chinese financial authorities.

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1 million XRP burn: 21 years becomes 2 years after recalculation, scarcity debate reignites

Debate over the XRP Ledger’s burn mechanism has intensified after a community member said a revised estimate shows it would take about 2.11 years to burn 1 million XRP if XRPL processes 1,500 transactions per second continuously. The earlier estimate of up to 21 years was based on an incorrect per-transaction burn fee. The discussion also extended to XRPL scalability and views that the burn mechanism is intended to deter spam rather than create scarcity.