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Mercury Inc. (CoinTrade) — Japanese crypto-asset exchange operator overview

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This entry sits under exchanges index. Read it with FSA crypto-asset exchange registration system — number system / Local Finance Bureau jurisdiction / registration requirements for adjacent context and Japan Financial Regulation — Legal Framework for Tokens, Crypto Assets, and Payments for the broader system boundary.

FSA registration number Kanto Local Finance Bureau Director-General 第00025号 · JVCEA member #1030 · registration date 2021-02-17

1. Corporate / shareholders

  • Trade name: Mercury Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社マーキュリー)
  • Service name: CoinTrade
  • Established: 2017年9月1日
  • Head office: Shibuya Infoss Tower 12F, 20-1号 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo (〒150-0031)
  • Capital: 3,000万円 (as of end of 2025年12月)
  • Shareholder: Ceres Inc. (100% funding at establishment)
  • Affiliated company: bitbank, Inc. (per official site)

Ceres Inc. is a Mothers-listed company founded in 2005年 by Satoshi Motoki. Mercury was established in 2017年9月 as Ceres’s crypto-asset business division.

2. License / registration status

  • Crypto-asset exchange business: Kanto Local Finance Bureau Director-General 第00025号
  • JVCEA membership type: Type 1 (crypto-asset exchange business only; no derivatives-business registration)
  • Member associations: JVCEA · JCBA (Japan Crypto Asset Business Association) · JBA (Japan Blockchain Association) · BCCC · JPCrypto-ISAC
  • Within the FSA and JVCEA lists reviewed on 2026-07-29, the registration confirmed for the company in this entry is its crypto-asset exchange business registration.

3. Supported currencies

  • Supported assets: In the official top-page snapshot retrieved on 2026-05-18, prices were displayed for BTC, ETH, XRP, LTC, BCH, and ADA. The live official screen should be used for the current full list.
  • Staking targets: 11 assets in total (per official site)
  • Distinctive feature: brokerage (販売所) format (no exchange = order-book trading offered). Differentiates as a multi-function asset-operation platform specialized in staking, lending, and recurring purchase.

4. Scope of business

  • Spot trading: crypto-asset brokerage (spot 販売所)
  • Staking: CoinTrade Stake (11 supported assets)
  • Lending: CoinTrade Lending
  • Recurring investment: scheduled purchases (minimum 500円/time)
  • PC trading tool: yes
  • Minimum purchase amount: 100円
  • Margin / derivatives: none (FSA registration is also crypto-asset exchange business only)
  • Corporate services: account opening supported for both individuals and corporations (there is an “Account-Opening Flow (Corporate Customers)” document)
  • Deposit channels: The official pages retrieved on 2026-05-18 describe JPY deposit methods and scheduled deposits. Use the live official FAQ for current conditions.
  • 2026-05-15 award: won Oricon Customer Satisfaction Survey “first highly-rated company” (official announcement)

5. Market share / trading volume

  • The CoinTrade and JVCEA materials reviewed on 2026-07-29 contain no company-level trading-volume, account-count, or AUM figures on a comparable basis. This entry does not infer a market rank or scale.

6. History / major events

The table below is limited to corporate and service milestones confirmed by company disclosures, CoinTrade’s official FAQ, and the FSA register. Individual officers’ appointment dates and start dates inferred from copyright notices are not used as historical evidence. ^[Sources: https://coin-trade.cc/assets/pdf/about/rule/rule20241113.pdf; https://support.coin-trade.cc/hc/ja/articles/21085480166681-CoinTrade-%E3%82%B3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89-%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AF%E3%81%A9%E3%82%93%E3%81%AA%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%82%B9%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99%E3%81%8B; https://www.fsa.go.jp/menkyo/menkyoj/kasoutuka.xlsx.]

Year-month Event
September 1, 2017 Mercury Inc. established (100% funded by Ceres Inc.)
February 17, 2021 Registered by the FSA as a crypto-asset exchange service provider (Kanto Local Finance Bureau No. 00025)
March 2021 CoinTrade crypto-asset brokerage service launched
July 2022 CoinTradeStake service launched
June 2024 CoinTradeLending service launched

Within the company disclosures, official FAQ, and FSA register reviewed above, this review did not identify a statement showing an administrative action, hack, or major outage. This describes the scope of the materials checked and does not assert that no such event exists.

7. Strategic developments

  • 2026年5月: temporary deposit/withdrawal suspension handling for POL · BCH (specific cause cannot be judged from public information)
  • 2026年4月-5: rolled out a self-organized event series including Fukuoka (user-acquisition / education type)
  • A clear staking-strengthening path. Expanding awareness centered on individual investors via columns and media exposure
  • CoinTrade’s official pages describe staking, lending, and recurring-purchase services. This entry does not infer group cooperation or capital measures beyond those disclosures.
  • Representative Director and President: Satoshi Motoki — graduated from Sophia University Faculty of Economics → Nomura Securities → head of the President’s Office at CyberAgent. Founded Ceres in 2005年 and serves as Representative Director. Concurrently Representative Director of Mercury since 2020年7月
  • Director and Vice President: Takaaki Fujiwara — from Recruit; appointed in 2021年3月 after stints at LastRoots and others
  • Directors: Hiroki Terato (from Ceres’s Corporate Planning Office head role), Takahito Komiya (from Daiwa Securities · OANDA · LastRoots)
  • Auditors: Hitoshi Tada (former Nomura Securities director and executive officer chairman · president of Daiko Clearing Services; concurrently Ceres director), Takashi Kanda

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