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The deal would extend a string of Korean broker-into-exchange tie-ups, signaling that traditional finance now sees domestic crypto venues as core distribution rather than a side bet.
A top Korean brokerage stepping into the country's No. 2 crypto venue isn't just M&A noise; it lands weeks before FSC rules would cap exchange ownership and force a Bithumb Holdings unwind.
The deal folds Kiavi's $7B in annual loan flow onto Figure Connect and pulls Kiavi's CEO into the C-suite — a structural bet that RWA volume, not tokenization pilots, is what the next leg of onchain…
It's the first deployment under Optimism's new OP Enterprise Self-Managed model — Dunamu keeps the sequencer keys while the Optimism Foundation stays on as engineering and backup infrastructure.
Upbit is the dominant venue for Korean-won crypto liquidity; a new listing on its KRW board opens the token to a retail-heavy flow pool that USDT or BTC pairs alone don't reach.
A top-five South Korean commercial bank just took a board-approved 1 trillion won position in the country's largest crypto exchange — the clearest signal yet that legacy finance in Seoul is moving…
Satoshi Nakamoto invented Bitcoin, then disappeared. Here is what we know, what we don't, and why the mystery is part of the design — not a flaw.
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