The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has approved two additional digital assets, HBAR and GRT, following Luno’s comprehensive coin selection process and proposal to the regulator.
The approval has led Luno, Malaysia’s leading digital asset exchange, to list both coins, expanding its coin list to 22 – the widest available in the country.
This launch is the second batch of digital assets approved by the SC in 2025. The expanded offering enables investors to explore a broader part of the crypto ecosystem and diversify their portfolios safely and securely.
Key Features of the New Coin Listings:
- Hedera (HBAR): Hedera is a high-performance, energy-efficient public network that leverages hashgraph consensus for fast, secure, and low-cost transactions, with predictable fees and enterprise-grade governance, enabling sustainable and scalable decentralised applications (dApps).
- The Graph (GRT): The Graph is a decentralised indexing protocol that enables efficient querying of blockchain data, making it easier for developers to build performant and reliable dApps across multiple
Luno’s country manager for Malaysia, Scarlett Chai, said, “We’re pleased to receive SC’s approval in listing HBAR and GRT to all Malaysians, with our customers having first access to invest and trade them starting today”.
“The addition of these two digital assets follows a rigorous screening process by Luno, which evaluates potential assets against strict technical, regulatory, and legal criteria to ensure their feasibility and suitability for introduction in Malaysia, as well as other markets across APAC, Europe, and Africa. Shortlisted coins are then proposed to the SC for a country-wide approval, allowing the Malaysian public to invest or trade the respective digital assets”, added Chai.
To date, Luno has submitted over 25 digital asset proposals to the SC, with 22 of them already approved and available on our platform. In the first half of this year, Luno launched four new digital assets – Algorand, NEAR Protocol, Hedera and The Graph – and expanded its staking service to include Polkadot, NEAR Protocol, and Cosmos.
Source: Luno (Press Release)