Huobi Becomes Latest Crypto Exchange to Disclose Proof-of-Reserves
Huobi, the Seychelles-based crypto exchange, recently became the latest digital asset exchange platform to reveal the number as well as the value of its digital assets held in reserves. Huobi has said disclosing the assets held in reserves helps to boost users’ confidence in the exchange as well as to improve transparency. Huobi’s ‘Inexhaustive Overview’ The Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange, Huobi, became the latest digital asset exchange to attempt to assuage users’ anxieties when it unveiled its so-called “proof of reserves” on....
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Huobi announced (via reddit, yesterday) that it will be implementing an industry standard Proof of Reserves program by the end of August, with a Trading/Asset Separation scheme to follow in September. Huobi is following in the footsteps of its foreign and domestic exchange counterparts by submitting its database and hot and cold storage wallets to a third-party audit. Their action follows on from wider concerns raised by the Chinese Bitcoin community that Chinese exchanges are operating by fractional reserve and user demands that exchanges prove 100% reserves. The Spectre of Mt. Gox means....
"We share the belief that it should be necessary for crypto platforms to publicly share proof of reserves," the Crypto.com CEO said. Kris Marszalek, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has become the latest crypto company promising to publish "audited proof of reserves," amid the downfall of rival exchange FTX. "We share the belief that it should be necessary for crypto platforms to publicly share proof of reserves," said Marszalek, adding that his company "will be publishing our audited proof of reserves."We share the belief that it should be necessary for crypto platforms to....
OKCoin has passed a Proof of Solvency/Proof of Reserves audit conducted by Stefan Thomas. The audit was announced on Weibo yesterday. Fellow Chinese Bitcoin exchanges, Huobi and BTC China, are also expected to release similar announcements soon. Stefan Thomas previously conducted the same Proof of Solvency/Proof of Reserve audits for Bitfinex and Kraken. Similarly, Bitstamp was able to pass an independent test and prove their solvency to BitcoinJ developer Mike Hearn. OKCoin, along with many other industry-leading Bitcoin exchanges around the world, all now believe that providing Proof of....
A wallet address linked to the Huobi exchange was found transferring 10,000 ETH to Binance and OKX deposit wallets soon after releasing its asset snapshot. To counter the rising mistrust among crypto investors following the FTX collapse, crypto exchanges unanimously decided to share proof of reserve with the public as a way to showcase legitimacy. However, certain anomalies found during on-chain investigations suggest foul play and market manipulation.Just two days after Crypto.com made its cold storage information public, investigators found that 320,000 Ether (ETH) was sent to Gate.io on....
Huobi recently became the latest cryptocurrency exchange platform to be granted provisional approval by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, a statement from the company has said. The provisional approval allows Huobi to offer virtual asset exchange products and services to “pre-qualified investors and professional financial service providers.”
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The Asian cryptocurrency exchange platform, Huobi, has become the latest digital asset services company to receive provisional approval from the Dubai....