Japanese Crypto Exchange to Relaunch as Part of Huobi After Buyout

2018-12-2 12:30

A regulated Japanese cryptocurrency exchange is shutting down to relaunch as part of the Huobi family. The new exchange will support six cryptocurrencies and 11 trading pairs. Existing Bittrade customers need to open new accounts, complete KYC verification, and transfer their assets to the new platform.

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Bittrade Shutting Down

Bittrade, one of 16 regulated Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced the complete termination of its current trading system. The exchange will then reopen as part of the Huobi family.

Huobi Japan Holding Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Huobi Global, has acquired a majority stake in Bittrade. Huobi itself stopped providing services to Japanese residents in June due to regulatory issues as Huobi is not a registered crypto exchange in Japan.

Bittrade is asking its customers to open accounts at the new Huobi platform and complete know-your-customer (KYC) verification, noting:

Please prepare your identity confirmation document again … from the viewpoint of thoroughly pursuing the criminal profit transfer prevention law, please register new accounts.

The exchange will terminate its agreement with Bitbank Corp., the provider of its current trading system, under a white label agreement. Bitbank also operates a regulated crypto exchange in Japan.

Asset Transfers

In its announcement, Bittrade stated that it will not transfer customer assets. Instead, the exchange has provided instructions for customers to transfer their own assets to the new platform.

Japanese yen in Bittrade accounts must be transferred to registered bank accounts by Jan. 18, 2019. Cryptocurrencies can be transferred directly from existing Bittrade accounts to new Huobi accounts once they are set up.

The exchange emphasized that the new platform will handle all cryptocurrencies currently supported by Bittrade: BTC, BCH, XRP, MONA, ETH, and LTC. The first four on the list can be traded against the yen. In addition, BCH, ETH, LTC, and MONA can be traded against BTC. Bittrade noted that the new system will additionally offer ETH/JPY, LTC/JPY, and XRP/BTC trading pairs.

The exchange wrote:

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused by the termination of the Bittrade service and updating to the Huobi new system. In the new system, we will continue to offer more liquidity and convenience services, so we appreciate your patronage.

Time Frame

The new Huobi platform is expected to start accepting new registrations on Dec. 10. It plans to start accepting deposits and begin trading on Jan. 8. The exchange’s new web address will be huobi.co.jp.

Bittrade suspended new account registrations on Nov. 30. Deposits in both cryptocurrencies and Japanese yen will be halted on Dec. 14, followed by transactions on Dec. 27. Withdrawals and account access will cease on Jan. 18.

The exchange clarified that even after users can no longer log into their accounts:

[Their] assets will not be lost due to the termination of this service. However, after January 18, it is only possible to withdraw the full balance of both virtual currencies and Japanese yen.

What do you think of Bittrade shutting down its service and relaunching as part of Huobi? Let us know in the comments section below.

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