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HONG KONG, April 22 (Reuters) - Chinese crypto tycoon Li Lin plans to move a trading system and team from his family office to Hong Kong-listed Bitfire ​Group (1611.HK), opens new tab, where he is the largest shareholder, in an effort to ‌tap into demand for digital assets among investors and institutions.
Bitfire, a wealth-management firm, on Wednesday said it had agreed to buy the investment team and trading systems of Avenir Group, ​Li's family office, for $1.6 million.
Li, from China's Hunan province, built Huobi - now ​known as HTX - into one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, ⁠before a Beijing crackdown reshaped the industry.
Cryptocurrency trading has been banned in mainland China ​since 2021, while Hong Kong is striving to become a virtual asset hub
After ​selling a controlling stake in Huobi for about $1 billion to crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun in 2022, Li shifted his focus to his family office.
With the acquisition, Bitfire plans to raise external ​money to provide regulated bitcoin-denominated asset management services, called the "Alpha BTC" strategy, said ​Livio Weng, CEO of Bitfire, in an interview.
Weng said the strategy would seek to attract investment ‌equivalent ⁠to more than 10,000 bitcoins - worth around $760 million - within a year.Weng said the strategy would seek to attract investment ‌equivalent ⁠to more than 10,000 bitcoins - worth around $760 million - within a year.
Market demand for such products is huge," Weng said, as a growing number of local firms are holding bitcoin, though they lack ways to make gains from the digital currency.
The ​strategy will generate profits ​via derivatives trading, ⁠such as options, using bitcoin or IBIT ETF (IBIT.O), opens new tab as the underlying asset, he said, adding that both crypto-native investors and ​Hong Kong-based firms would be the target clients.
At least 40 ​Hong Kong-listed ⁠companies have bitcoin holdings, according to Bitfire estimates.
Bitcoin was last trading at around $76,000, rebounding from a weak first quarter amid heavy volatility.
Since 2024, Avenir has become Asia's largest ⁠bitcoin ​ETF investor. The firm held 18.3 million shares ​of BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust with a valuation of $908 million as of the end of 2025, according ​to its regulatory filing.
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The strategic Strait of Hormuz was closed again amid the standoff between Iran and the United States, as the influential Iranian parliamentary speaker indicated that a conclusive peace agreement was still “far” away, even though talks made some headway
With mediators pressing on after high-level discussions in Pakistan failed to produce an accord, Tehran declared it would keep the vital maritime trade corridor closed until Washington lifts its blockade on Iranian ports.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned that any attempt to pass through the strait without permission “will be considered cooperation with the enemy, and the offending vessel will be targeted”.
The current two-week ceasefire will expire on Wednesday unless it is extended.
US ⁠President ⁠Donald Trump has no justification to ⁠deprive Iran of its nuclear ⁠rights, the Iranian Students’ News Agency quoted Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian ‌as saying on Sunday, as Washington and Tehran continue to face disagreements over nuclear ⁠issues
Iran’s “valiant navy” is “ready to inflict new bitter defeats on its enemies”, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said on Saturday.
Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh dismissed Trump’s claims over the uranium and sounded a note of caution with regard to future talks between the two countries
“There is now a certain sense of frustration and uncertainty when it comes to the road ahead. We know that Iranians are very much worried, not only about the shadow of the war, but also about the element of surprise, even during this ceasefire,” Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi reported from Tehran
Minister of Education Alireza Kazemi has said the government does not have plans to resume “in-person education” at the moment
The Iranian Ministry of Science announced that in the “third imposed war,” 180 members of the academic community were killed, including 18 female students and one female university professor
The Tasnim News Agency, citing the deputy director of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation, said the country’s airspace would be reopened, with flights from east to west established gradually
The aviation authority said Iran will resume international flights on Monday from Mashhad airport in the country’s northeast
Iran is replenishing its missile and drone launchers at a ⁠higher speed than before the war started, Majid Mousavi, the Revolutionary Guard’s Aerospace Force commander, said
⁠Iran’s ⁠armed forces turned back two tankers attempting ⁠to transit the Strait ⁠of Hormuz after issuing warnings, semi-official Tasnim ‌news agency reported
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Iranian parliament, said in a televised address on Saturday night that there had been “progress” with Washington, “but there are many gaps and some fundamental points remain
discussion,” said Ghalibaf, one of Tehran’s negotiators in the talks aimed at ending the war launched by Israel and the US against Iran
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif returned to Pakistan on Saturday from his visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkiye in advance of an expected second round of US-Iran talks
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said Cairo and Islamabad hoped to secure a final agreement “in the coming days”
⁠Turkey’s ⁠Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday ⁠that both Iran and the United ⁠States had the will to continue talks to end the ‌war, and that he remained “optimistic” that the two-week ceasefire would be extended
Trump accused Iran of getting “a little cute” with its recent moves and warned Tehran not to try to “blackmail” Washington by flip-flopping on the strait
“We have very good conversations going on,” the president told reporters at the White House, adding that Washington was “taking a tough stand
The US military said it forced 23 ships to turn around near the Strait of Hormuz since it imposed a naval blockade of Iranian ports. In a post on X, the Central Command said US forces were still enforcing the blockade “against ships entering or exiting Iranian ports and coastal areas
The Israeli military said another soldier had been killed in combat in southern Lebanon, the second death announced in less than 12 hours
Israeli forces said they have established a so-called “yellow line” in southern Lebanon, similar to an Israeli military measure in the besieged Gaza Strip. Israel has also been accused of violating the terms of the ceasefire with Lebanon
More than 1,000 homes in Tel Aviv have been left uninhabitable by the recent war with Iran, the city’s mayor said on Saturday
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Saturday’s attack that killed a French soldier serving with the UN mission UNIFIL in Lebanon
Naim Kassem, head of the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, in a statement read on the group’s Al-Manar TV, said a paper published by the US Department of State, which he described as the text of a ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel, “means nothing at the practical level, but it is an insult to our country
Everyone knows that the government of Lebanon has not met or approved this statement,” he said
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A Native American chief rides on his horse onto a barren landscape, bathed in moonlight. The animated video rapidly shuttles between a range of people who’ve been victims of the United States government, from Black Americans in chains to survivors of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison complex
Then it pans to Iranian soldiers sticking large banners on missiles, as the tempo of the background music picks up. “For the stolen Blacks,” says the first one. “For the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” comes up next
“In memory of victims of Iran Air flight 655,” says another, referring to the passenger aircraft brought down by US missiles in 1988, killing all 290 people on board. “In memory of Rachel Corrie’s freedom struggle” follows, referring to the American activist who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003. Victims of US war and abuses in Afghanistan, Vietnam and Iraq – and the “children of Epstein island” – all get similar messages, plastered on missiles that then fire off. The video ends with giant statues of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu collapsing, and a line in bold, white and all caps: ‘ONE VENGEANCE FOR ALL.
The March 29 video is one of many released by Explosive Media, among several Iran-based groups that have used the Lego figures and blocks that households around the world are familiar with to script a viral social media trend, bolstering Tehran’s narrative amid the war against the US and Israel
The video depicting the multiple victims of US aggression and domestic crimes has been viewed almost 150,000 times on X. Explosive Media’s YouTube account has more recently been deleted by the Google-owned video-sharing platform.
But the Tehran-based group, which uses bespoke lyrics and rap beats to mock Trump – often using the US president’s own words to accuse him of hypocrisy and of pandering to Israel’s interests rather than America’s – isn’t giving up
An Explosive Media representative, who requested anonymity, told Al Jazeera that their YouTube channel was shut down on the grounds of promoting violence – and that they are convinced that Lego-like brick animations are not at all violent
There was frustration, but no surprise – this story is not new,” he said. “We know well how the West wraps truth in silence and tries to mute every voice that speaks it.
Marc Owen Jones, a professor at Northwestern University in Qatar, who researches media analytics, said Iran’s efforts to win the narrative war were a critical part of its strategy, because it knows that it can’t win militarily.
Their best bet of success is to have public opinion on their side, pressuring the United States to stop,” he told Al Jazeera. “And the communications game in this day and age is one in which this kind of troll propaganda, this kind of ‘owning smack-talk type’ propaganda wins.
He said that the carefully chosen themes in the Lego-style videos would have resonated even more with Western audiences if they weren’t coming out of Iran – a country they’ve been told, over decades, to distrust.
Zaka argued that in many ways the undiplomatic tone and ruthless messaging in the Iranian videos mirrored Donald Trump’s own communication style.
Ultimately, the Iranian Lego videos are very good,” Jones said. “They’re actually well thought out. There’s a lot of details in them. There’s actually a narrative. Whereas US propaganda is just, you know, explosions with Hollywood films cut through them.
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In a bold move that underscores the rising influence of blockchain in global finance, a Dubai-based family office managing assets for Qatari royal Sheikh Nayef bin Eid Al Thani has pledged a $8.8 billion investment to develop a blockchain hub in the Maldives—a small island nation best known for its tourism-driven economy.
The deal, spearheaded by MBS Global Investments, is set to unfold over the next five years and aims to radically transform the Maldives into a digital finance powerhouse in the Indian Ocean. The Financial Times reports that the planned investment surpasses the entire GDP of the Maldives, which was estimated at $7 billion in 2023.
Strategic Pivot from Tourism to Digital Finance
The Maldives faces rising external debt pressures, with $600–$700 million due in 2025 and another $1 billion in 2026. This blockchain initiative is part of a larger effort to diversify the national economy, reduce reliance on tourism and fishing, and position the country as a digital asset hub in Asia.
Though the Maldives has little current exposure to cryptocurrencies, this initiative signals a strategic pivot toward international investment and innovation. The deal also arrives amid the country’s ongoing efforts to maintain balanced relationships with both India and China.
Ambitious Infrastructure and Job Creation
The plan includes the construction of an International Financial Centre spanning 830,000 square meters, designed to host 6,500 residents and create 16,000 jobs. That figure represents approximately 3% of the nation’s total population, making the project one of the most significant economic developments in the Maldives’ modern history.
MBS Global Investments will fund the initiative through a consortium of family offices and high-net-worth individuals, having already secured between $4 billion and $5 billion toward the project. The company’s portfolio spans fintech, construction, real estate, and early-stage crypto investments.
Expanding Global Blockchain Ambitions
Last year, MBS Global invested in Varys Capital, a digital asset firm focusing on early-stage blockchain ventures. According to CEO Nadeem Hussain, family offices that once shied away from crypto are now embracing blockchain for portfolio diversification.
The firm has also been involved in economic development zones in Southeast Asia, including projects off the coast of Malaysian Borneo and discussions with Brunei’s Ministry of Finance and Economy last month.
This investment marks a massive endorsement for blockchain infrastructure in emerging economies, positioning the Maldives as a future crypto-fintech hub in Asia.

This post first appeared on Cryptosnewss.com

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