Rakuten Wallet, Inc. — Japan crypto-asset exchange overview
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FSA registration number Kanto Local Finance Bureau 第00015号 · JVCEA member #1018 · registration date 2019-03-25
1. Corporation / shareholders
- Trade name: Rakuten Wallet, Inc. (English: Rakuten Wallet, Inc.)
- Date of establishment: 2016年12月15日 (former trade name: Minna no Bitcoin, Inc.)
- Head office location: 〒107-0062 Rakuten Crimson House Aoyama, 6-21号 Minami-Aoyama 2-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo
- Capital: 1,850百万円 (18.5億円)
- Parent company: Rakuten Securities Holdings, Inc. (100% stake). Rakuten Securities Holdings is under Rakuten Group, Inc. (TSE Prime 4755).
- Corporate number: 7010401128837
- Representative Director and President: Tatsuya Yamada
2. License / registration status
- Crypto-asset exchange business: Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau 第00015号 (registration completed 2019年3月25日)
- Electronic-payment-instrument business: Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau (Dendai) 第48号
- Financial instruments business (Type 1): Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau (Kinsho) 第3190号 (registration completed 2020年5月)
- JVCEA membership type: Type 1, member number 1018. Holds both crypto-asset exchange business and crypto-asset derivatives trading qualifications.
- ISMS certification: ISO/IEC 27001:2013 (certification registration number IS 510581)
3. Handled currencies
Number of handled currencies: 16 currencies (as of 2026-05-18, from the official-site handled-crypto-asset list)
| Category | Currencies |
|---|---|
| With spot trading | BTC, ETH, BCH, XRP, ADA, DOT, XLM, POL, SOL, TRX, AVAX, DOGE, SHIB, TON |
| Margin trading only | LTC, XTZ |
Margin trading (crypto-asset derivatives) supports the 9 currencies of BTC, ETH, BCH, LTC, XRP, ADA, DOT, XLM, and XTZ.
Characteristics: With its strength in linkage with the Rakuten ecosystem, a balanced currency lineup centered on major coins. Relatively new meme / utility coins such as SHIB and TON are also added sequentially (marked “NEW” as of 2026年).
4. Scope of business
- Spot trading (spot): yes (smartphone app and web)
- Crypto-asset margin trading (derivative): yes. Service started 2020年3月. Provides a dedicated website, the “Margin Trading Exchange.”
- Rakuten Point exchange: Rakuten Points (regular points) can be exchanged for spot-trading currencies at 1 points = the equivalent of 1円 (minimum 100 points). Started 2021年3月 as “Point Bitcoin by Rakuten PointClub.”
- Rakuten Cash charge: held crypto-assets can be converted and charged to Rakuten Cash and used at Rakuten Pay member stores (started 2021年2月).
- web3 wallet: separately provides an NFT/web3 wallet app usable with a Rakuten ID (a separate service from the crypto-asset trading app).
- Corporate accounts: yes (provides a corporate account-opening service).
- API: provides a trading API for external developers (including “GPT-Trade” linkage).
- Deposit channels: supports instant deposit linked to a Rakuten Bank account, bank transfer, and deposits/withdrawals supported on weekends and holidays.
5. Market share / trading volume
- The Rakuten Wallet corporate and product materials reviewed on 2026-07-29 contain no account-count or monthly-trading-volume figures comparable across firms. This entry does not infer a market rank or scale. Rakuten Point and Rakuten Cash linkage is treated as a documented service category in §4.
6. History / major events
The table below is limited to milestones confirmed in Rakuten Group’s acquisition announcement, Rakuten Wallet’s corporate information and disclosures, and the FSA register. The 2018 acquisition announcement also states the service-launch, registration-application, and business-improvement-order dates. ^[Sources: https://corp.rakuten.co.jp/news/press/2018/0831_02.html; https://www.rakuten-wallet.co.jp/company/company.html; https://www.rakuten-wallet.co.jp/irpress/statement.html; https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/kasoutuka.xlsx.]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| December 15, 2016 | Minna no Bitcoin, Inc. established |
| March 30, 2017 | Virtual-currency exchange service launched |
| September 7, 2017 | Registration application submitted to the Kanto Local Finance Bureau |
| April 25, 2018 | Business-improvement order received while operating as a deemed operator before registration |
| October 2018 | Rakuten Card acquired all shares of Minna no Bitcoin and made it a subsidiary |
| March 2019 | Renamed Rakuten Wallet, Inc. and registered as a crypto-asset exchange service provider, No. 00015, on March 25 |
| 2019年4月 | Became a 100% subsidiary of Rakuten Payment, Inc. via reorganization within the Rakuten Group |
| 2019年8月 | Started a crypto-asset spot-trading service |
| 2020年3月 | Started a crypto-asset margin-trading service |
| 2020年5月 | Completed Type 1 financial-instruments-operator registration (Director-General of the Kanto Local Finance Bureau (Kinsho) 第3190号) |
| 2020年6月 | Relocated headquarters from Tamagawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, to Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo |
| 2020年10月 | Reduced capital to 1億円 (later increased capital, now 18.5億円) |
| 2021年2月 | Started the crypto-asset → Rakuten Cash charge service |
| 2021年3月 | Started the Rakuten Point → BTC pseudo-investment “Point Bitcoin by Rakuten PointClub” |
| 2022年7月 | Became a 100% subsidiary of Rakuten Securities via reorganization within the Rakuten Group |
| 2022年10月 | Reorganized into a 100% subsidiary of Rakuten Securities Holdings |
The principal administrative action is the April 25, 2018 business-improvement order issued while the company was a deemed operator before registration. Within the company disclosures and FSA materials reviewed above, this review did not identify a separate post-registration action; this is not an assertion that none exists.
7. Strategic trends
- Deepening Rakuten-economic-zone integration: continuing a strategy of treating the over-2,000万 Rakuten Point members as a potential customer base through linkage with Rakuten Points / Rakuten Cash / Rakuten Pay.
- web3 wallet expansion: since 2025年, providing NFT / web3-compatible apps as a standalone service. A design that lowers the entry barrier for existing users via single sign-on with a Rakuten ID.
- GPT-Trade linkage: providing an AI-leveraging trading interface as an official service (as of 2026年).
- SPU (Super Point Up Program): incorporating the use of Rakuten Wallet into the conditions for boosting the point-reward rate on Rakuten Ichiba purchases, seeking mutual customer referral with other Rakuten services.
- Handled-currency expansion: added meme / high-liquidity currencies such as SHIB, TON, and DOGE around 2026年, strengthening the lineup.
8. Related figures
- Tatsuya Yamada: Representative Director and President (disclosed information)
- The original starting point: Traders Holdings (an FX-affiliated corporate group) established the original corporation, but it fully transitioned to the Rakuten Group in 2018年10月. Details of the founder / officers at the time of establishment are not recorded in disclosed materials.
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Sources
- Rakuten Wallet company overview (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- Rakuten Wallet handled-crypto-asset list (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- Rakuten Wallet investing with Rakuten Points (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- Rakuten Wallet disclosure information (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- JVCEA member list (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- Rakuten Wallet - Wikipedia (retrieved 2026-05-18, for cross-check purposes)
- FSA crypto-asset exchange registration list (equivalent to snapshot 2026-04-01)
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