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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.
The deal expands Ripple's institutional footprint, but XRP demand remains unclear while RLUSD accounts for more than three-fifths of tokenized assets on the XRP Ledger.
Regional-bank adoption gives Ripple a concrete institutional use case in South Korea, while broader rollout will determine whether the signal extends beyond one integration.
Delio halted withdrawals in June 2023 and was declared bankrupt in November 2024, putting accountability for high-return crypto deposit platforms at the center of the case.
The policy raises the operational stakes for exchanges and shows how platform-held crypto can become a direct tax-enforcement target.
An 18% intraday spike is a generational move for one of Asia's largest equity benchmarks, and the risk-on ripple into crypto and regional tech is what global investors will price next.
A 22% rate kicking in Jan. 1, 2027 on gains above ~$1,740 will decide whether Korean retail stays onshore or migrates to offshore venues; the political fight moves to a subcommittee this week.
Seoul's Metropolitan Police Agency tracked 3.4 million XRP on-chain and froze suspects' wallets within three days, but the market barely flinched.
South Korea's largest trading company is putting real, production-grade invoices onchain, a step beyond pilots into the working-capital plumbing that moves trillions a year in global trade.
This is the first major Asian bank to onboard Kinexys for production cross-border USD settlement, and it quietly extends JPMorgan's institutional rail deep into Korea's $700B-a-year trade corridor.
Two of Korea's biggest consumer-finance names signing on for stablecoin rails is a legitimacy beat for $USDC in Asia's most-watched retail payments market.
The deal marks one of South Korea's largest traditional financial institutions planting a full-scale flag in domestic crypto infrastructure, with a stake increase to 97.15% expected before the week…
Retail capital appears to be rotating out of Upbit, Bithumb and peers straight into Korean equities, with KOSPI up 114.44% while daily crypto turnover has fallen roughly nine-tenths year on year.
Fee dependence is turning a market slowdown into operating pressure, with profit erosion at Dunamu and repeated asset sales by Korbit.
Phase two shifts the pilot from simulation to real consumer transactions, with Korea's four largest financial groups joining regional lenders to trial tokenized won across commercial rails.
KRW 2.15 trillion lost in a month, with 62% concentrated in 20s-and-30s accounts. The painful side of retail perpetuals mania, not the only side.
The scale of South Korea’s equity selloff marks a sharp risk-off signal for Asian markets, with investors watching whether pressure spreads across regional assets.
Eight months after Upbit lost $30M to thieves, the FSS finally moved, but Korean crypto law carries no direct sanction clause for hacks, leaving the actual penalty still undefined.
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