The 16 registered cryptocurrency exchange services in Japan have come together to form the Japan Cryptocurrency Exchange Association (JCEA). This is according to a report by Asahi Shimbun, a local news outlet in Japan. The JCEA will be responsible for the self-regulation of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange platforms. The JCEA Taizen Okuyama is the chairman of the JCEA. He is the CEO of Money Partners, a forex firm which recently entered into the cryptocurrency exchange market

OKEx – a popular digital asset trading platform which provides fiat-to-cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency-to-cryptocurrency, and derivatives trading services – has suspended the deposit of all ERC-20 tokens after discovering a smart contract bug. Pending deposits are reportedly safe, however. Squashing Bugs The bug in question purportedly allows attackers to more easily manipulate price on the platform. Therefore, to protect market integrity on the platform, OKEx has stopped the flow of incoming ERC-20 tokens. In an official blog