March 9, 2019 @ 9:52 am By Cali Haan  |  

The South Korean Supreme Prosecutors’ Office has created a task force dedicated to responding to a reported 800% increase in cryptocurrency crime complaints, South Korean news agency Naver reports. The task force, which will reportedly be, “packed…with professional investigators, prosecutors, and investigators as team heads,” was… Read More

March 4, 2019 @ 12:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Blockchain-based payment platform Terra has received an investment from VC Kakao Ventures – an independent subsidiary of South Korea’s internet firm, Kakao. The amount of the investment was not disclosed but was said to fund the expansion and mainstream usage of Terra’s blockchain payment solution… Read More

February 26, 2019 @ 10:16 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Korean cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbin, which took over “Top Ten Korean …Exchange” Youbit last April after Youbit lost $15 million USD (17 billion won) in customer funds in a hack, has declared bankruptcy and ceased all trading on February 22nd, Business Korea reports. Coinbin CEO Park Chan-kyu… Read More

February 20, 2019 @ 8:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Speedy blockchain Hedera Hashgraph has announced the first members of the Hedera Hashgraph Governing Council. The group will guide changes to the software run by Hedera distributed nodes over time. Hedera says the initial Council members will be Deutsche Telekom, DLA Piper, Magazine Luiza, Nomura Holdings,… Read More

February 8, 2019 @ 1:44 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bankers at Korea’s central bank, the Bank of Korea, have issued one of the most decisive warnings against the creation of a central bank-backed cryptocurrency so far, The Korea Times reports. International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde called last year for an “even-handed approach” to… Read More

February 1, 2019 @ 3:52 am By Cali Haan  |  

Bitfury, one of the world’s largest cryptomining  and “blockchain-services” firms has announced it is partnering with the Korea-based company Commons Foundation, “to open and operate Bitcoin transaction processing centers in Paraguay as part of the foundation’s “Golden Goose” initiative to expand cryptocurrency and blockchain innovation… Read More

January 31, 2019 @ 8:15 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Citing “high risk,” “insufficient disclosure,” “no actual service” and token dump price plunges of 68% immediately after privately sold coins are introduced onto public exchanges, the Korean Government has decided to uphold strict regulation (reportedly a ban) on ICOs (initial coin offerings). The government made the decision… Read More

January 29, 2019 @ 2:34 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Terra, a project building the next-generation payment system based in Singapore and Korea,  has partnered with South Korean based Fantom, a DAG-based smart contract platform for real-time cryptocurrency payments, to accelerate the mainstream adoption of its stablecoin. Terra and its alliance of eCommerce partners will… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 12:08 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A Korean exchange called Coinzest accidentally sent users $5.3 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum last week, Cryptonews reports. Coinzest was in the midst of conducting a promotional “airdrop” of a crypto token called WeGameTokens (WGT), but thanks to a “computer error,” the exchange sent users… Read More

January 22, 2019 @ 11:58 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Two executives from the Korean cryptocurrency Komid have been imprisoned for creating fake volume on the exchange in order to deceive investors, Korean media outlet Blockinpress reports. Komid Choi has reportedly been sentenced in Seoul to three year’s imprisonment for fraud and embezzlement, and an accomplice, Park… Read More

January 13, 2019 @ 8:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

The global leader in equity crowdfunding, OurCrowd, has signed a new investment partnership agreement with South Korea’s KEB Hana Bank. The move by OurCrowd is further indication of its growing relationship with institutional investors and its significant foothold in Asia. In a release, OurCrowd said… Read More

January 12, 2019 @ 8:11 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Investigators from the Korean Ministry of Science, Technology and Information and the Korea Internet Development Agency (KISA) have found “weak” security at 31 0f approximately 38 crypto exchanges studied, ZDNet reports. Investigators deployed an 85-point security checklist to participating exchanges and found that, “14 exchanges… Read More

January 4, 2019 @ 11:39 am By Cali Haan  |  

At the top of markets in December 2017, mining an Ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum network, cost about 240,000 Korean won ($213 USD), and that Ether could be sold for 2.3 million won ($2093 USD). At that time, South Korea was the third… Read More

December 27, 2018 @ 5:02 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The importance of storing one’s cryptocurrency safely was highlighted in South Korea this week when a court there decided that Korean crypto exchange Bithumb is not liable for customer funds hacked from an account there, Han Kyung reports. According to the outlet, an investor with… Read More

December 23, 2018 @ 9:28 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Researchers at the Mosaic “cryptoasset data and research platform” have assembled a report showing that Asia is still the centre of the universe when it comes to crypto-price action. The company begins by describing “key headline events” in China, Korea and Japan during the course of… Read More

December 22, 2018 @ 2:14 pm By Cali Haan  |  

About one week after its CEO delivered a keynote address to the Korean parliament on the regulation of crypto markets there, the Upbit cryptocurrency exchange’s board chair, finance director and an employee have been indicted for allegedly, “inflat(ing) the volume of transactions by making ($226.2… Read More

December 17, 2018 @ 10:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

JB Financial Group (KRX:175330), a Korea-based retail finance group, announced on Monday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with CIMB Niaga, a leading Indonesian commercial bank, and MITRA JASA LIMA for the open banking platform business in Indonesia.  According to JB Financial, the… Read More

December 10, 2018 @ 9:21 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Members of South Korea’s Democratic, Liberal-Democratic and Right Future Party will hold their first debate on the subject of cryptocurrency exchanges today in the Korean parliament, local media outlet Hani reports. Cryptocurrency exchanges have been operating in Korea since 2013 and exchanges there are some… Read More

December 10, 2018 @ 10:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Korea based Viva Republica, creator of the peer to peer money transfer service Toss, has raised $80 million led by some pretty big names. VCs Kleiner Perkins and Ribbit Capital led the funding round. The investment has delivered unicorn status for the Fintech as the… Read More

November 27, 2018 @ 2:57 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Regardless of recent stories of bear markets and electricity rate hikes bankrupting small crypto miners across the globe, a Korean company called the Commons Foundation has announced it is opening, “the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining center and global cryptocurrency exchange,” in energy-rich Paraguay. Commons Foundation says… Read More