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One of the venture capitalists that had backed Coinsuper told Bloomberg that they had completely written off their $1 million investment in the exchange. Six to eight months ago, the VC lost contact with the exchange’s management team, while Chairman and CEO Karen Chen stopped responding on WeChat, Bloomberg said.
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The Animoca Brands subsidiary and blockchain-based virtual world, The Sandbox, has announced the firm has made multiple partnerships in Hong Kong, and has plans to create a “Mega City” in the metaverse. Partners who acquired land in The Sandbox to build Mega City include Hong Kong tycoon Adrian Cheng, professional
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The release said the suspects had opened personal accounts from May to November last year at various Hong Kong banks, including virtual banks and a cryptocurrency trading platform. They were accused of engaging in suspected money laundering by dealing with money from unknown sources through bank transfers, cash deposits and
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Authorities in Hong Kong have arrested two individuals accused of laundering about $384 million using various avenues including a cryptocurrency exchange trading platform. If convicted, the two face a maximum jail sentence of 14 years plus a fine of $5 million. An Indictable Offense Two people accused of laundering about $384 million
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On Thursday, Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ (PWC) Hong Kong unit announced that it purchased a land site in The Sandbox metaverse. The PWC Hong Kong branch will be the first internationally recognized professional services brand to enter The Sandbox metaverse. PWC Hong Kong Enters the Metaverse While land located next to Snoop Dogg’s Sandbox
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PwC Hong Kong, an international subsidiary of the global PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) organization, announced Thursday its emergence in the metaverse space with the acquisition of LAND in the popular world The Sandbox.Though the cost of its LAND asset was undisclosed, it was noted that PwC Hong Kong intends to construct a
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On Tuesday, Solana nonfungible token (NFT) project Monkey Kingdom, which has received notable backing from American DJ Steve Aoki, announced via Twitter that hackers made off with $1.3 million of the community's crypto funds through a security breach on Discord. According to its developers, the hack first occurred with the breach
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With a gripping theme of “Infinity Games,” Hong Kong’s Digital Entertainment Leadership Forum (DELF) was held over the past weekend at Cyberport, a business park and home to a creative digital community. Gamers of all ages gathered for a glimpse of what evolving video games have in store for the
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This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations. Bad news for EvergrandeEven after all the regulatory crackdowns, China isn’t letting 2021 slip away without a few more
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China and Hong Kong are in the second phase of testing cross-border transactions using central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), Mu Changchun, director of the Digital Currency Institute of the People’s Bank of China, said Thursday, according to Shanghai Securities News. Source
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