Asian crypto exchanges batten down the hatches as hacks surge: Asia Express

Asian crypto exchanges batten down the hatches as hacks surge: Asia Express

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The Bank of Korea is surveying 31 financial institutions on how a major exchange shutdown, prolonged crypto downturn or losses at another firm could affect their operations.

Despite clear evidence of years of North Korea-linked hacking groups stealing billions from crypto exchanges, Pyongyang claims to have had no involvement in the $6.3 billion Binance hack and floated the idea it was actually the Americans.

“The FBI is trying to brand the DPRK as a ‘cyber criminal state’, claiming that it obtained information that a hacking organization ‘supported’ by the DPRK was involved in the incident,” said Kim Yo Jong said.

“But the US assertion is an absurd rhetoric and nothing new.” South Korea’s government has backed postponing tax on cryptocurrency gains by another two years to 2029.

Judging on the troubled history of the tax, it would not be surprising if it is delayed again at that point.

Hong Kong has recently officially introduced secondary market trading for SFC-authorised Tokenized Funds through licensed exchanges.

Two China Asset Management money-market funds can now trade continuously via PantherTrade and the Futubull app.

Japanese yen stablecoin JPYC marked its first anniversary with a circulating supply around 3 billion yen—one quarter of its internal target.

BlackRock, BlackRock Japan, SBI Holdings and Startale have signed an MOU to explore connecting tokenized money-market funds with SBI’s JPYSC yen stablecoin.

Ministry of Finance rules require cryptocurrency exchanges licensed in Vietnam to report security incidents and remediation plan within 24 hours Five major banks—including HSBC, JPMorgan’s Kinexys, MUFG, Société Générale-Forge under BNP Paribas, and Standard Chartered—have launched the Global Layer One Organization (GL1) in Singapore.

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