BTC, ETH and USDT Deposits Unleashed: Is Your Portfolio Ready for the Stampede?

Deep in the bustling heart of Hong Kong, where fortunes have a tendency to rise and collapse with the zeal of a provincial tax inspector, Futu Securities International has decided to amuse the public—no, to enlighten them!—with its latest invention: a mechanism that allows even the most absent-minded citizen to deposit Bitcoin, Ethereum, and, gasp, Tether in their accounts. 🦄

With the gravity of a judge but the gleam of a gambler, Futu’s spokespersons announced this epochal event. “Behold,” they said (or so it is alleged in this so-called press release), “to the qualified and daring, our all-in-one machine is open!” Cryptocurrencies: now, not only the toys of shadowy millionaires, but a feature for the masses, at least those who can pronounce ‘decentralized’ without biting their tongues. And yes, stablecoins—those mysterious creatures—parade alongside BTC and ETH.

Through a device not named “Magic Box” but almost—NiuNiu app, how adorable—one can now frolic through the fields of financial assets: from the dignified Hong Kong stock to the excitable U.S. shares, the austere Japanese options, and all manner of ETFs, funds, and bonds. It’s as if one strolled into a banquet, elbowed a samurai on one side and a Wall Street analyst on the other, and demanded cryptocurrency for dessert. 🍣💸🍰

With a click, investors may leap from tokens to stocks, perhaps faster than they leap to conclusions at a family dinner. At last, the mighty chasm between traditional finance and the wild steppe of crypto has a bridge—or at least a hastily constructed wooden plank.

This “coin recharge function”—for truly, what renaissance would be complete without a pompous title—lets Futu’s users either amass tokens as if collecting shiny pebbles or cash out before the tide mysteriously recedes (as tides and markets do).

In the laboratories behind the counting house, Futu’s learned men and women previously dabbled with deposits in Tether’s USDT and Circle’s very round USDC. No word on whether anyone used Dogecoin for lunch money yet.

The sage and surely always well-rested Managing Director, Xie Zhijian, spies a “growing appetite” for crypto deposits in the local market. Evidently, investors here have bigger cravings than a bear at a honey fair. Yet, alas, few local brokers dare supply these crypto delicacies.

Rumor—perhaps even hope—whispers that in the future withdrawals will appear, letting people inject their hard-earned coins into the digital bazaar, or perhaps just to impress their in-laws.

“Futu hopes to bring crypto investors a better investment experience…with diversity and a suitable aura,” Xie intoned, staring nobly towards the horizon, as if expecting a parade of NFT unicorns. 🦄

It should be said: this crypto playground first opened back in August 2024, seducing retail investors not only with blockchain dreams but splinters of Alibaba and Nvidia, thrown in like cheap party favors.

A dramatically enthusiastic crypto trader with pockets full of coins.

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2025-05-07 16:08