Tokyo Hash Co., Ltd. — Japanese crypto-asset exchange operator overview
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FSA registration number Kanto Local Finance Bureau Director-General 第00027号 · JVCEA member #1032 · registration date 2021-06-18
1. Corporate / shareholders
- Trade name: Tokyo Hash Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 東京ハッシュ株式会社)
- Date of establishment: 2018年2月9日
- Capital: 4億3125万円
- Head office: 〒100-0005 2-chome 3-2号 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (3 minutes’ walk from JR Tokyo Station; a financial-district location atop Tokyo Station)
- Shareholder: HashKey Digital Asset Group Limited (invested 100%, unlisted)
- Parent company: HashKey Group (Hong Kong headquarters). A pan-Asian group that has obtained crypto-asset exchange licenses from Hong Kong SFC, Singapore MAS, and Japan FSA. Tokyo Hash is the group’s Japan entity.
2. License / registration status
- Crypto-asset exchange business: Kanto Local Finance Bureau Director-General 第00027号 (registration date 2021-06-18)
- No registration for financial instruments business / electronic payment instruments business / funds-transfer business (as of 2026-05-18)
- JVCEA: Type 1 member (member number 1032). Registered for crypto-asset exchange business only; has not obtained derivatives-business registration
3. Supported currencies
- Supported assets: only 2 assets — Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH)
- No altcoins or stablecoins supported (as of 2026-05-18)
- Distinctive feature: among the smallest asset counts domestically. A selective lineup focused mainly on bilateral trading for institutional / corporate clients
4. Scope of business
- Spot trading: BTC · ETH buy/sell service (started 2021年9月)
- Crypto-asset lending service: a consumption-loan transaction in which customers lend out their held BTC · ETH for a fixed period and receive a lending fee. Annual rates differ per transaction (the official guidance cites past cases of 4.5%-6.5% annual rate)
- Margin / derivatives: not supported
- NFT / staking: not supported
- Fiat-deposit channels: details not disclosed
- Seminars: held regularly for institutional / corporate / individual investors (themes such as Web3.0, NFT, DeFi, mining)
5. Market share / trading volume
- Trading volume and account count are not disclosed
- Customer base: from the corporate-site descriptions, seminar content, and the 2-asset-only composition, the main target is presumed to be institutional investors / corporate clients rather than retail general investors (basis: official statements that “HashKey Group’s mainstay business is supporting digital-asset investment for institutional investors”)
- Competitive position: registration number #00027 is a latecomer among the 26 社 domestic firms. With both asset count and account count undisclosed, it holds a niche position distinct from the major top 3 (bitFlyer · Coincheck · GMO Coin, Inc. — Japan crypto-asset exchange operator overview). For the licensing regime of parent HashKey’s home base, see Hong Kong SFC VASP licensing regime — VATP regime + licensed CEX overview
6. History / major events
| Period | Item |
|---|---|
| 2018-02-09 | Tokyo Hash Co., Ltd. established |
| 2021-06-18 | Crypto-asset exchange business Kanto Local Finance Bureau Director-General 第00027号 registration |
| 2021-09-13 | Crypto-asset trading service (BTC · ETH) launched |
| 2021-12-15 | Crypto-asset lending service launched |
| 2022-01-05 | Crypto-asset lending service 1th application round opened (annual rate 6.5%) |
| 2022-02-10 | Crypto-asset lending service 2th application round opened (annual rate 4.5% or more) |
| 2022-05-09 | Parent HashKey Group obtained in-principle approval from Hong Kong SFC to operate a crypto-asset trading platform (group-wide regulatory progress) ^[HashKey Group SFC approval-in-principle announcement; Tokyo Hash company and product sources] |
| 2024-05-31 | Officer change |
| 2025-04-24 | Officer change |
| 2025-11-27 | Officer change |
No notices of administrative action, hacks, or large-scale system outages (as of 2026-05-18).
7. Strategic developments
- Since 2024年, parent HashKey Group has aggressively rolled out HSK platform-token issuance, HashKey Chain (Ethereum L2) deployment, the launch of HashKey Global (a global exchange), and more. No specific feature-addition plan for the Japan base, Tokyo Hash, has been disclosed.
- Domestically, the company-profile and philosophy pages show a posture of seeking to expand services for institutional investors, but no individual roadmap is disclosed (as of 2026-05-18).
- The crypto-asset lending service has had no new public-offering notices since 2022年 (text remains posted on the service page).
8. Related people
- Representative Director: Deng Chao. At HashKey Group, also concurrently serves as President of the Singapore entity and CEO of HashKey Capital (per the HashKey Group official profile). Tenure confirmed after the 2025-04-24 officer change.
- Directors: Zhu Minghua, Li Yingchen
- Outside auditor: Takayuki Fukuda
- Founder story: not disclosed. That it was established as HashKey Group’s Japan-entry entity is official information.
Related
- japan-financial-regulation — Japanese financial regulation overall
- japan-bittrade-listing-process — general theory of token-listing process (distinct from individual companies’ listing activity)
- japan-stablecoin-regulatory-landscape — related stablecoin regime
- jp-trust-type-sc-architecture — related SC regime
- hk-sfc-vasp-licensing-overview — parent HashKey Group’s home HK SFC VASP license
- global-vasp-regulatory-comparison-matrix — global VASP regulatory comparison matrix
- jp-vasp-parent-company-map — JP VASP parent-company map
Sources
- Tokyo Hash company profile (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- Tokyo Hash service page (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- Tokyo Hash news list (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- Tokyo Hash group-companies introduction (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- JVCEA member list (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- FSA crypto-asset exchange operator registration list Excel (snapshot 令和8年4月1日 = 2026-04-01)
- HashKey Group About (retrieved 2026-05-18)
- HashKey Group: SFC approval-in-principle for licensed virtual-asset trading platform