In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief, we cover the addition of Vietnamese đồng fiat to Huobi OTC, venture capital fund Dymon Asia backing a new institutional crypto platform, and Paxful donations supporting the building of a second school in Rwanda.
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Huobi OTC to Support Dồng
Huobi, the Singapore-headquartered trading venue, has announced its plan to support Vietnamese đồng transactions on its proprietary peer-to-peer trading platform, Huobi OTC. This means that Vietnamese traders can now use Huobi’s OTC trading platform to exchange between crypto and fiat currencies.
The OTC service is meant to act as an intermediary that reduces the risk of fraudulent activity for traders in countries where regulatory guidelines have not yet been established. With the addition of the Vietnamese đồng, Huobi’s OTC trading platform now supports 18 fiat currencies including CNY, USD, SGD, INR, CAD, AUD, KRW, CHF, TWD, RUB, GBP, HKD, NGN, EUR, IDR, PHP and KHR.
Dymon Asia Backs Crypto Platform
Dymon Asia Venture Capital Fund has announced it is backing LXDX, a cryptocurrency trading platform that offers technology services for exchanges, including software for public retail exchanges and private exchanges for institutional block trading. Dymon Asia Ventures is the venture capital arm of Dymon Asia Capital, an alternative investment manager headquartered in Singapore with approximately US$5 billion under management. The fund’s support is meant to help LXDX make the cryptocurrency space more accessible to investment banks and hedge funds.
CEO Joshua Greenwald said: “We built LXDX in response to the aversion conventional finance institutions have had to the cryptocurrency space. Joining forces with Dymon allows our team, with decades of trading experience, to bring the qualities of traditional lit and dark
