Gate News reports that on March 26, Futu Holdings announced that its wholly-owned self-developed virtual asset trading platform has officially obtained a comprehensive license and begun operations. The platform will soon be fully integrated with Futu Securities, Hong Kong's first retail brokerage licensed as a securities broker, a subsidiary of Hong Kong retail broker Futu Securities, to provide core services such as virtual asset trading matching, asset custody, and technical solutions. Futu Holdings stated that this platform is Hong Kong's first licensed virtual asset trading platform incubated by a securities broker, and its deep integration with Futu Securities will establish Hong Kong’s and Asia’s first comprehensive financial services platform licensed to operate both "securities brokerage" and "virtual asset exchange" businesses.