Cryptos are new battleground for Indonesia's tech investors
There are four to five million registered currency traders in Indonesia, so the market looks likely to grow
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IN April this year, Tokocrypto - the first registered cryptocurrency exchange in Indonesia - launched its own token called TKO valued at US$50 million. On the first day of trading, the token surged to a high of US$1 billion in market cap as retail investors snapped it up in droves.
The price for each token rose from just 10 US cents to US$10, and although the price has since come down sharply to about US$1.80, the initial surge reflected the strong retail investor interest in crypto-currencies, one of the fastest growing asset classes in Indonesia.
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