Financial Supervisory Service to Add Nvidia H100…Strengthening AI Surveillance for Unfair Trading in Virtual Assets

South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) said it will procure additional high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs) to strengthen its capacity to investigate unfair trading in virtual assets (cryptocurrencies). The plan is to upgrade its artificial intelligence (AI)-based analytics system to more precisely identify accounts used for market manipulation.

According to financial authorities on the 16th, the FSS has secured 170 million won in this year’s budget to expand internal servers and plans to purchase one Nvidia H100 GPU within the second quarter. The H100, a high-performance computing device launched in 2022, is widely used for AI training and large-scale data analysis. The FSS also introduced two H100 units last year with a budget of 220 million won.

The equipment will be used to improve the performance of “VISTA,” a dedicated AI platform for investigating unfair trading in virtual assets built in 2024. The FSS is using VISTA to analyze trading patterns and automatically detect suspected market-manipulation sections. This year, it will further enhance the functions, focusing on identifying accounts suspected of being mobilized for organized market manipulation. It also plans to develop a large language model (LLM) so it can analyze messages that collude in unfair trading of virtual assets.

Separately, the FSS is reviewing the creation of an AI system to monitor the virtual-asset market in real time. The structure is designed to immediately detect and respond when abnormal signs emerge, such as sharp surges or plunges in the prices of major coins. Currently, it receives market-trend information only once a day, which it views as limiting rapid response.

A rapid increase in the number of suspicious-transaction reports is also behind the expanded AI investment. According to the Financial Services Commission, suspicious virtual-asset transaction reports totaled 1,333,391 last year, up 23% from the previous year. With digital-asset trading becoming more sophisticated and the limitations of manually tracking fund flows growing, the FSS plans to further expand its analytics infrastructure by securing additional GPUs when necessary.