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Former Fidelity Executive Says South Korean Index’s 10% Crash Pulled BTC Below $60,000

Mike McCluskey argues that bitcoin’s slide is due to its high-beta relationship with tech equities rather than broken crypto-native fundamentals. The Seoul-to-Nasdaq Contagion On Tuesday, June 23, the South Korean…

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Chainlink and Over 10 Korean lenders Push to Kill FX Delays With Real-Time Settlement

Chainlink, a coalition of Korean commercial banks, and a 37-member European bank consortium announced Project Pangea on June 23, a working group focused on replacing the global foreign exchange market’s…

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Leading South Korean Bank Toss Taps Solana to Test Cross-Border Remittances for 15 Million Customers

South Korea’s Toss Bank has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Solana Foundation to test blockchain-based remittance and settlement infrastructure. A First for a Korean Internet Bank Toss Bank,…

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Bithumb CEO Booked in South Korea Bribery Probe Over Lawmaker’s Son Hiring

South Korean police are investigating Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won over bribery allegations linked to hiring people connected to independent lawmaker Kim Byung-ki. According to Yonhap News, the Seoul Metropolitan Police…

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South Korea Halts KOSPI Trading After 8.4% Crash Trips Circuit Breaker

South Korea’s KOSPI index plunged 8.4% on Monday, triggering a rare circuit breaker that froze trading for 20 minutes as a global semiconductor selloff battered Asian markets and rattled risk…

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