Finance Secretary Paul Chan stated while delivering the budget for the fiscal year 2023–2024 that over the past few months, a huge number of innovative firms having good potential are looking out for prospects to set up their business in Hong Kong.
The next step, according to Chan, is to create and head a task group on virtual asset development with members from relevant policy bureaux, financial regulators, and market participants to make suggestions for the sector's sustainable and responsible growth.
As a significant step toward becoming a crypto capital, Hong Kong presented a strategy to permit retail investors to trade digital tokens like Bitcoin and Ether. The city's policy shift is in contrast to the US crackdown that followed the FTX exchange's collapse, which left it with an $8 billion hole in its finances.