Overview
- CAEX said Friday that investments from OKX Ventures and HashKey Capital will help lift its charter capital to VND 10 trillion, the minimum to join Vietnam’s regulated crypto pilot.
- Beyond funding, the partners will support CAEX on core needs such as trading infrastructure, security, compliance, risk controls, and liquidity links, while individual stake sizes remain undisclosed.
- Vietnam’s pilot sets strict gates for entry, including VND 10 trillion in capital, at least 65% owned by institutional investors, and a 49% cap on foreign ownership.
- Officials plan to license only a small number of domestic platforms and have signaled they may restrict access to unlicensed offshore exchanges once the first local venues go live.
- CAEX counts VPBank Securities and digital ID firm LynkiD as shareholders, aiming to offer a supervised local alternative in a market that moved about $200 billion in crypto through mid‑2025 and drew FATF greylisting in 2023 for weak AML controls.