Japan, Malta, Singapore are now leaders in the global cryptomarket, especially in sphere of cryptoassets trading and ICOs. There is news that S.Korea can change its legislation to permit legally regulated ICOs that is the way to wider liberalization of crypto policy of that country. But we should understand that some countries such as China are pioneers in the active large-scale introduction of blockchain techs in practice use (eg. in large business), in spite of pressuring of crypto trading and ICOs (though cryptoassets including BTC are not officially banned in China). Liberal approaches to cryptotrading don't necessarily mean leadership in a wide real-life blockchain use.