Millions of retail investors across SE Asia are locked out of their digital assets following an operational blackout of the ONUS cryptocurrency exchange. Users began reporting severe login failures and network errors on 20 Mar, according to VnExpress.
Vietnam Investors Locked Out as ONUS Exchange Crashes: Local Media
23 March 2026 - 10:50 CET
By Stu Clelland
The Singapore-headquartered platform primarily serves the Vietnamese market and claimed to host over seven million accounts in 2025. Investors are currently unable to withdraw funds or verify new accounts through the mobile application, VnExpress reported.
Several business affiliates who previously promoted the platform deactivated their social media profiles over the weekend, and founder Eric Vuong and his executive team remain entirely unreachable, offering no official explanation for the outage, according to the publication.
