SBI Crypto Fund I began operations Aug. 1 with a target size of about ¥3 billion, bringing SBI, gumi and Daiwa investors into a three-year strategy spanning Bitcoin, major altcoins, staking and hedging.
SBI Holdings acquired a majority stake in Coinhako after MAS approval, putting the Singapore-regulated crypto platform inside its wider Japan-to-Southeast Asia digital-asset strategy.
SBI Holdings and the Solana Foundation will turn SBI R3 Japan into SBI Solana Global to support JPYSC, tokenized assets and cross-border settlement on Solana.
Gauntlet closed a 125 million Series C led by SBI Holdings, targeting stablecoin expansion and institutional DeFi vault infrastructure.
EDX Markets raised $76 million from SBI Holdings as the institutional crypto venue expands clearing, settlement and its pending EDX Trust bank plan.
SBI Crypto will close its Bitcoin mining pool on July 31, forcing miners to redirect roughly 2% of Bitcoin hashrate before the cutoff.
SBI Holdings agreed to buy Bitbank for 46.7 billion yen, setting up Japan's biggest crypto exchange group by custody assets.