SFC greenlights Crypto staking for licensed HK platforms

Hong Kong has been inching closer to establish itself as the crypto hub at global level, most recently the Securities and Futures Commission of HK has opened a path for offering crypto staking services to the ones already leading other crypto based operations within the region.

The notice of SFC dated April 07, 2025 now allows the firms with the license of virtual assets trading platform in Hong Kong can now offer staking services to their customers. 

Despite this apoorval the SFC said firms and companies with an intention to offer crypto staking services have to take necessary measures and steps to safeguard their users, with the disclosure of potential risk in staking of digital assets.

Over the past few years the term crypto staking has gained major traction with a significant number of investors lending their holdings to earn interest over their holdings. 

In simple words, crypto staking is an entire investment process in which a person buys some amount of crypto and then further lends the purchased coins and tokens for a specific period of time to earn yield and interest in the amount staked.

It is worth noting that the firms intending to offer staking services has to 1st gain a formal approval from the Securities and Futures Commission and followed by a written apoorval which help clarify the requirements that a company has to fulfil. 

With this development Julia Leung the Chief Executive Officer of SFC said the move to revise digital assets laws for staking has been backed by the intention of Hong Kong to establish itself as a crypto hub globally.

Julia also quotes, “ But the broadening must be done in a regulated environment where the safety of client virtual assets continues to be front and center of the compliance framework for offering such service.” 

Hong Kong has established itself as one of the fastest growing crypto hubs with the United Arab Emirates closely competing followed by Singapore and a few others. 

As per market experts, the government of Hong Kong is working closely to structure and launch regulations for stablecoins 

As of writing the cryptocurrency market cap was $2.53 trillion with a sudden decline of 11.23% and the fear and greed index was at 17 determining extreme fear in the market.

Bitcoin is exchanging hands at $76,001 with a loss of 8.33% intraday and is down by 6.96% at the same time Ethereum was at $1,482, and XRP was at $1.75. 

In the past 24 hours intraday losers list has been ruled by Berachain, Zcash, Litecoin, Movement, Sonic, KuCoin token and Aave, in the same frame the gainers are Kava, First Digital USD And USDC.