Cryptocurrency is expanding from the local to the global on a daily basis. The sector has become a site for partnerships and has revolutionized international relations over the past few years with decentralization. In the recent past, the crypto community has seen several partnerships and globalization of cryptocurrency firms. Notably,
The global crypto regulatory sector has shown a spike in activity in 2024. Leading nations such as the US and UK announced new regulatory plans while on the other hand, Eastern countries also made advancements. Presently, in the past day, South Korea’s regulatory body, the Financial Supervisory Services (FSS) announced
South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS), the world’s third-largest pension fund, has made a significant investment in the cryptocurrency sector. By acquiring 245,000 shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR) during the second quarter of this year. This investment is valued at approximately $33.75 million, highlighting NPS’s growing interest in cryptocurrency. MicroStrategy, a
Terraform Labs’ co-founder, Do Kwon, is about to be extradited to South Korea. A chain reaction of court disputes and opposing extradition demands from the US and South Korea led to this latest turn of events. Now that the Montenegro Appellate Court has given its verdict, Kwon may go back
The cryptocurrency sector in South Korea encountered a revised version of the FSC’s Virtual Asset User Protection Act. This revised version included a charge of supervisory fees for leading crypto exchanges such as Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone and GOPAX. The exchanges are required to pay a regulatory fee of 300 million
The first cryptocurrency regulatory framework in South Korea is currently up and operational. Prioritized in the wake of the catastrophic 2022 crypto market crashes at Terra-Luna and FTX, the new regulations aim to provide investor protections. After receiving formal approval on July 18, 2023, the Virtual Asset User Protection Act
The South Korean ruling party, conservative People Power Party (PPP) is considering postponing the taxation of cryptocurrency investment gains with a 20 percent tax to January 2028. Cryptocurrency income taxation scheduled earlier in October 2021. As the tax law passed by the National Assembly during the former president, Moon Jae-in’s
A system to continuously monitor cryptocurrency exchanges for suspicious transactions has been created by South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS). The FSS announced its collaboration with South Korean digital asset exchanges. In order to put up a mechanism for continuous monitoring of suspicious transactions on July 4. The Virtual Asset
South Korean crypto exchange Upbit announced the launch of BLAST trading pairs for Korean won (KRW), Bitcoin (BTC), and Tether (USDT). Notably, the trading of BLAST, the governance token of L2 network Blast, on the platform is expected to start on Wednesday. Upbit is one of the five fully licensed
Two police officers in South Korea are facing trial over an alleged bribery case involving a high-profile crypto fraud case. It involves an alleged crypto fraudster surnamed Tak. Tak was accused of orchestrating an art-themed altcoin scam and for running a fake Ethereum and NFT-related project convincing people to invest
