Japan's LDP approves AI-onchain finance plan backing tokenized deposits and yen stablecoins
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Promote with Leviathan NewsJapan's Liberal Democratic Party formally approved Seiji Kihara's Next-generation AI & Onchain Finance Concept on May 19, setting up a push to make blockchain rails part of the country's 24/7 AI-agent commerce stack. The proposal backs tokenized deposits, BOJ current-account deposit tokenization, yen stablecoins including the three-megabank stablecoin project, and asks the FSA for a five-year roadmap for public-private investment. This is still a policy concept, but the signal is clear: Japan wants onchain finance treated as core financial infrastructure, not a web3 side quest.
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