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A strong retail market and improving institutional access sit alongside last-place cross-border openness, highlighting the policy gap Korea must close to attract global crypto businesses.
Retail trading and AI-token interest powered the lead, while Hong Kong stood out for institutional participation.
The lineup connects XRP Seoul with established financial institutions and two use cases: cross-border payments and tokenized deposits.
The roundup pairs stronger detection and restrictions with South Korea's push to broaden tokenization across traditional markets.
A simultaneous KRW, BTC and USDT launch on South Korea's largest exchange is broader than typical, and with limited prior global trading history, Korean retail flow will be the dominant…
The debate puts liquidity controls in focus after JPYC traded at four times its peg on Upbit, a sharp departure from a stablecoin’s intended price anchor.
The transaction shows how established distributed-ledger rails can connect Korean institutions to global settlement accounts ahead of Seoul's 2027 tokenized-securities framework.
The criminal referrals turn a regulatory fight over access into personal liability for users, with the order-book-versus-betting distinction set up as the courtroom test.
Police traced users through public blockchain records and OSINT, with 18 of 26 cases already heading to prosecutors in a test of how far prediction-market enforcement can reach onchain.
A fourth push to postpone the 22% crypto gains tax crosses the 50,000-signature National Assembly threshold while the finance ministry nominee confirms the Jan. 1, 2027 start date.
Coming from the legislature's own fiscal research arm, not a crypto industry paper, the estimate reframes won stablecoins as candidate public-payment infrastructure rather than a private-sector…
A major Korean brokerage shipping live tokenization infrastructure months before the FSC's staged rollout shows the institutional plumbing is arriving before the legal mandate, not after it.
Semiconductors are a core pillar of South Korea's trade economy, so the boom carries beyond chipmakers to the country's broader growth outlook.
Stage three brings stablecoin on-chain settlement, putting Seoul on the same map as Hong Kong's green bond trials and BlackRock's BUIDL for institutional tokenization flows.
The initiative could move tokenization into mainstream capital markets by linking digital ownership with familiar rules for issuance, trading and settlement.
The Seoul court's ruling is the first of four unjust enrichment suits Bithumb filed to claw back proceeds from its February 620,000 BTC mishap, setting precedent for how exchanges can recover from…
The partnership links planned stablecoin pilots to Shinhan’s bank and card businesses as South Korea advances a wider framework for stablecoins, VASP licensing and crypto ETFs.
Both venues lost roughly half their H1 revenue to KOSPI's semiconductor rally; if that flow reverses, Korean buying has historically amplified global crypto moves well beyond its share of volume.
Korean retail crypto trading has slumped hard enough to drag first-half profits at Upbit and Bithumb, but the institutional side just landed its first globally regulated custodian with local…
The ruling puts Polymarket’s control over market rules, crypto settlement and fees at the center of the case, rather than its non-custodial, peer-to-peer design.
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