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Indonesian people are increasingly interested in investing in crypto assets. Even though the market is currently under pressure amid a bearish trend, the domestic crypto industry is slowly growing.
The Commodity Futures Trading Supervisory Agency (CoFTRA) of the Ministry of Trade released the latest report regarding the number of crypto asset investors in Indonesia and trade transactions collected until May 2022. In the report, CoFTRA stated that from the end of December 2021 to May 2022, there were nearly 3 million additional investors. from 11.2 million now reaches 14.1 million investors.
Meanwhile, the number of crypto asset trading transactions in Indonesia, during the period from January to May 2022, has reached Rp 192 trillion. When compared with the number of transactions in 2021 for the same period, there is a decrease. In May 2021, the number of crypto asset transactions reached IDR 370 trillion.
VP Marketing Adytia Raflein said the growth report issued by CoFTRA provides clear evidence that the crypto asset industry in Indonesia is still moving in a positive direction, despite being hit by a bear market situation. Although the growth is not very satisfactory, the number of investors in crypto assets is still much larger than stocks.
“The growth in the number of crypto asset investors is still moving in a positive direction at a time when the market is experiencing a lot of pressure. The impact of market conditions can be seen from the number of trade transactions, but this has been anticipated beforehand, so it has not had a serious effect on the growth of the crypto industry business in Indonesia," said Adytia in an official statement, Friday (24/6/2022).
Furthermore, Adytia said the domestic crypto industry is still growing. This can be seen from the number of new crypto asset and NFT projects from local industry players that have been released. They believe that a bear market can be a good opportunity to showcase their project.
conditions Bear market can be like natural selection in the world of crypto assets and blockchain, where crypto and NFT projects will be tested to survive and seek opportunities. The market will show which projects have good fundamentals and which do not, thereby opening up the potential for bigger ones in the future.
From a business perspective, Tokocrypto is still growing. The company managed to record a growth in the number of investors reaching 2.7 million investors as of May 2022. Meanwhile, trading transactions or weekly trading volume reached US$ 300-400 million.
“Tokocrypto's business is still growing. We continue to develop the blockchain ecosystem, TokoVerse to increase revenue . So far, we are still looking for the best talents to join the company and together to advance the crypto and blockchain asset industry in Indonesia,” explained Adytia.
The TokoVerse ecosystem, which consists of TokoMall (NFT marketplace), TokoLabs ( start-up ), T-Hub (crypto hub), Cryptoversity (edutech), TKO (crypto project) and others can be a new line of business that can take advantage of blockchain developments, Web3, Metaverse, NFT, DeFi, GameFi and more. The company's revenue does not only rely on income from the exchange , so that sustainability remains for the long term.
To continue to drive growth, Tokocrypto also focuses on investor education and protection. The goal is that people can gain a sense of trust and confidence to enter the crypto asset industry. One way of education carried out by Tokocrypto is to create the TokoInvasion program which will be held in Surabaya from 23 to 26 June 2022.
“In the investment and financial services industry, trust is the main thing. Therefore, we want to create a sense of trust in the community in viewing crypto assets and blockchain. We have long focused on education and literacy. We want to create healthy industrial growth and suppress illegal investment and the negative stigma of crypto assets," concluded Adytia.
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