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🇯🇵 Japan just made a move that Wall Street should be scared of Breaking — TODAY, May 17, 2026: SBI Securities and Rakuten Securities have announced plans to sell cryptocurrency investment trusts, while Nomura Securities and other major players are considering entering the field once the regulatory framework is established. (BanklessTimes) Here's why this is MASSIVE: → Japan currently prohibits crypto assets from being included in investment trusts under existing regulations (CoinDesk) — that's about to change → Japan now has roughly 13 million crypto accounts held through local exchanges (MEXC) → SBI Global is targeting ¥5 trillion ($32 billion) in crypto assets under management within 3 years (MEXC) → Japan's FSA plans to slash crypto tax from 55% down to a flat 20% (CoinPedia) — same as stocks and bonds The firms moving right now: Nomura • Daiwa • SBI • Rakuten • Mitsubishi UFJ • Asset Management One These aren't crypto startups. These are Japan's biggest financial institutions. What it means for the market: America had BlackRock. BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF hit $90 billion in assets. (MEXC) Now Japan's entire traditional finance sector is about to open the floodgates to 13 million retail investors + institutions. This is the ETF moment for Asia. 🌏 And most of crypto Twitter is still sleeping on it. Which coin do you think benefits most from Japanese institutional money? 👇 $BTC $ETH #JapaneseSecuritiesFirmsCryptoInvestmentTrusts #Bitcoin #CryptoNews #BinanceSquare $VVV #JapaneseSecuritiesFirmsCryptoInvestmentTrusts