Shanghai Man: AscendEX reopened after $80m hack, Huobi suffers key personnel departures, and government officials punished for mining activities

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Published Dec 17, 2021 02:23AM ET

Updated Dec 17, 2021 02:40AM ET

This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industrys most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations.

h4 Limping out of 2021/h4

Last week we thought we had hit rock bottom for Chinese exchanges, as Bitmart was on the unfortunate end of a $150m hack. This week, it was more of the same, as AscendEX lost $80m to a similar style of theftaffecting its Ethereum, BSC and Polygon hot wallet. On December 16, AscendEX released a security post-mortem detailing the attack:

h4 Hard times at Huobi?/h4
Chinese users trying to trade on their Huobi accounts were greeted with this message after December 15 when trying to trade or deposit funds
h4 Government officials in hot water/h4 h4 Adoption in Hong Kong/h4
Hong Kong had the fewest unengaged crypto owners of any developed market. Source: Visa (NYSE:V)

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