Japan’s central bank is running blockchain settlement experiments and advancing tokenized central bank money initiatives ...

Granted, there’s chatter that the BOJ is determined to hike rates again in short order — perhaps April. In December, the Ueda BOJ raised Japan’s benchmark rate to 0.75%, a 30-year high.

The Bank of Japan aims to move its real rate closer to zero, but the timing and scale of future adjustments will depend on economic conditions. The market appears dissatisfied with the lack of clarity ...