Bitcoin exchange Kraken will help probe missing bitcoins as part of the liquidation of MtGox, once the world’s largest trading place for the digital currency.

San Francisco-based Payward, which operates Kraken, will also assist in processing, investigating and paying out the claims of MtGox customers who lost bitcoins in the company’s Feb. 28 collapse, bankruptcy trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi told a meeting of creditors in Tokyo on Wednesday.

The move was approved by the Tokyo District Court, which is overseeing the liquidation of MtGox. It comes amid Kobayashi’s attempts to unravel the complex mess of what went wrong at the company and what happened to its assets.

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