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Hashkey HK opens AVAX trading with $1M portfolio requirement

CryptofreePress Staff by CryptofreePress Staff
September 27, 2023
in Blockchain
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Hashkey HK opens AVAX trading with $1M portfolio requirement

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Hong Kong crypto trade Hashkey, the primary to obtain a retail crypto license within the Particular Administrative Area (SAR), will open Avalanche (AVAX) buying and selling on its platform. Nevertheless, there’s a catch.

Based on the September 27 announcement, solely skilled buyers, or people possessing an funding portfolio with a price exceeding eight million Hong Kong {dollars} ($1 million), as outlined by the SAR’s Securities & Futures Fee (SFC), can commerce AVAX on the Hashkey trade. At present, solely Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Tether (USDT) are authorised by the SFC for retail buying and selling, with the remaining altcoins topic to skilled investor restriction. 

The SFC has positioned important restrictions on exchanges since regulated retail crypto buying and selling started in Hong Kong in August. Not like its world counterpart, Hashkey Hong Kong requires customers to deposit the equal of $1,500 into their trade accounts as a part of the Know Your Buyer verification course of. 

Cointelegraph reported in June that crypto exchanges are spending over $25 million to determine the right infrastructure wanted for a Hong Kong Digital Asset Supplier (VASP) license. In the meantime, Hashkey Hong Kong has an estimated 24-hour buying and selling quantity of simply $5.three million throughout three cryptos, a fraction of its world friends. 

Sarcastically, the introduction of a regulated crypto regime didn’t seem to halt the actions of unhealthy actors. Through the Token2049 convention in September, the most important monetary fraud in Hong Kong’s historical past unraveled with the collapse of the JPEX crypto trade. Police have accused JPEX of embezzling greater than $178 million of buyers’ cash, with the trade being unregistered with the SFC on the time of the incident. For the reason that fallout, the SFC has begun publishing a warning listing of crypto exchanges deemed non-compliant within the SAR.

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