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The 100k user milestone represents 2% of Kakao’s current user base in South Korea. South Korean company, Kakao, announced that its new crypto wallet function surpassed 100,000 users in less than a day in its chat app, KakaoTalk. The feature went live on June 3. According to the internet giant, KakaoTalk’s Klip was launched with […]
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A Seoul court granted the petition demanded by the prosecutors to freeze crypto wallets owned by the head of the Nth Room case. On June 2, a South Korean court ordered a freeze on all the cryptocurrency wallets, securities deposits, and stocks account owned by Cho Ju-bin, the suspected head of Nth Room. Nth Room […]
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Binance Korea will be using an anti-money laundering solution developed by Coinfirm, as the country requires a high level of regulatory compliance for crypto. Binance Korea will be monitoring activity on its platform for signs of money laundering thanks to a solution developed by Coinfirm. The partnership, announced on June 1, will help Binance’s Korea […]
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South Korea’s largest public blockchain, ICON, has released its Blockchain Transmission Protocol, allowing individual blockchains to interact and communicate with each other. ICON (ICX), South Korea’s largest public blockchain project, released its Blockchain Transmission Protocol (BTP) on May 28. The protocol enables interoperability between individual blockchains, facilitating value transfer, service invocation and data exchange. Connecting […]
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South Korea’s electronic giant exhibits interest in distributed ledger technology. LG Electronics has joined the governing council of Hedera Hashgraph, the enterprise-grade public distributed ledger platform. LG serves as the council’s fourteenth member, sitting alongside Boeing, Deutsche Telekom, Google, IBM, Tata Communications, and other leading organizations. Hedera Hashgraph CEO Mance Harmon told Cointelegraph that LG […]
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The government of South Korean is preparing to legislate crypto taxes by proposing a new amendment to the existing law. South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and Finance is preparing an amendment to apply to the nation’s Income Tax Law. This could include rules for profitable sales of cryptocurrencies as well as profits from national crypto […]
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Can blockchain cure the country’s job creation woes? Daejeon University is the latest in a series of South Korean universities redesigning portions of its finance and technology departments. The university made an official announcement on May 25 that it would open a new fintech department called “Future Convergence.” According to the announcement published by Daejeon […]
Continue ReadingA Daegu-based university has made a deal with the Korea Artificial Intelligence Association to build a blockchain campus. South Korea’s Suseong University reached a deal on May 22 with the Korea Artificial Intelligence Association, or KORAIA, to create a blockchain and AI campus in Daegu. According to the announcement published by local media outlet Money […]
Continue ReadingMessari adds 10 new exchanges to its ‘real volume’ metric and overhauls methodology. Crypto data and research platform Messari has added 10 new exchanges to its “real volume” metric as part of a revamp of the methodology. The ranking is an attempt to rank exchanges without including any wash trading — which came about following […]
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