by Martin Chan | Nov 9, 2026 | Crypto
Martin Chan | Consultant, TITUS · November 2026 At about 4.05 am Hong Kong time on 30 October 2026, funds began moving from five Binance hot wallets. In its initial report, Binance said an attacker had gained access to an internal signing service and used it to...
by Martin Chan | Nov 6, 2026 | Crypto
A Hong Kong company puts up stablecoins as collateral for a corporate credit card. An employee uses the card to pay a HK$12,000 supplier invoice. The supplier receives Hong Kong dollars through the card network, and the company owes HK$12,000 to the lender. The tokens...
by Martin Chan | Oct 23, 2026 | Crypto
DPP v Zhimin Qian and the rights behind a cross-border asset recovery claim More than 61,000 Bitcoin were among the assets seized by the Metropolitan Police in the proceedings involving Zhimin Qian. Finding and securing those assets left a separate question for the...
by Michael Titus | Aug 21, 2026 | Crypto
When police announced the first arrests in the Fun Coffee case at the start of August, reported losses stood at HK$94 million across 225 reports. Ten days later, the Commercial Crime Bureau put it at HK$113 million across 273 reports. That gap is the part worth paying...
by Michael Titus | Jul 29, 2026 | Crypto
On 9 July 2026, the SFC gave Hong Kong’s licensed virtual asset trading platforms and internet brokers twelve months to take SMS one-time passwords off their login screens. The deadline is 8 July 2027, and large internet brokers are told to move now rather than...
by Michael Titus | Jun 4, 2026 | Crypto
The day the SFC approval lands is the day the easy part ends.A lot of founders treat the virtual asset trading platform licence as a finish line. You spent eighteen months and a fortune getting it, so it feels like one. The SFC sees it the opposite way. To the...
