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Mutuum Finance presale nearly sold out… price per token $0.035

Decentralized lending protocol Mutuum Finance's sixth token presale allocation has been nearly 100% sold. Mutuum Finance plans to launch a testnet within the year. On the 28th, according to industry sources, Mutuum Finance's native token MUTM's Phase

Price surges 250% in one year… Mutuum Finance presale nearing close

The decentralized lending protocol Mutuum Finance's sixth token presale allocation has been reported to be nearly 95% sold out. As the market views it as a promising DeFi project, analysts say token demand could accelerate. According to industry sour

"Stablecoin risks can be managed by design"…Min Byung-deok publishes report refuting Bank of Korea's '7 major risks'

Min Byung-deok, a member of the National Assembly's Committee on Economy and Finance from the Democratic Party, on the 26th released a report that directly refutes the '7 major stablecoin risks' presented recently by the Bank of Korea. The report was

Lee Jung-woo, Korbit CTO "AI agents will lead stablecoin payments"

Korbit, a domestic virtual asset exchange, said on the 24th that its Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Lee Jung-woo attended the 'C-Suite Roundtable for Financial Firms Preparing for 2026' held at The Westin Chosun Seoul on the 18th of this month and ga

[Weekly Key Economic & Cryptocurrency Schedule] U.S. September Producer Price Index (PPI) & Others

<Next week's major economic schedule> ▶︎ 24th (Mon): △ Nov. Dallas Fed Manufacturing Index ▶︎ 25th (Tue): △ ADP Weekly Private Employment Preliminary (4-week average) (Korea time 22:15) △ Sep. Producer Price Index (PPI) (Korea time 22:30) △ Sep. Reta

Messari spotlights AI startup 'ChatAndBuild'…"Will establish a new standard"

Global blockchain research firm Messari has spotlighted the AI startup ChatAndBuild. Messari analyzes that ChatAndBuild is demonstrating the potential of the next-generation AI model 'Non-Fungible Agent (NFA)'. According to industry sources on the 21

Taiko unveils decentralized exchange 'TaikoSwap'

Taiko (TAIKO), an Ethereum (ETH) rollup project, announced on the 21st that it has launched its own decentralized exchange 'TaikoSwap (TaikoSwap).' The exchange was launched as a core infrastructure of Taiko's decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem t

World·Story ecosystem developers gathered in one place…'K-Builders Meetup' held in Seoul

The event was attended by industry experts, blockchain developers, early-stage entrepreneurs, university project leads, and game studio developers, who shared the latest technology trends and development experiences. The event was co-hosted by blockc

'BlackRock alumni' startup HelloTrade raises $4.6 million in seed funding

HelloTrade, a blockchain-based trading platform founded by former employees of the world's largest asset manager BlackRock, has raised $4.6 million (about 6.8 billion won) in seed funding. HelloTrade said on the 20th (local time) that it had closed a

Nexspace forms 'US$50 million' fund…"Ecosystem expansion"

Nexon's blockchain subsidiary Nexspace said on the 20th that it will set up an ecosystem fund of up to US$50 million (about 70 billion won). The fund will be used for the long-term growth of the entire Nexspace ecosystem, including the blockchain gam

ETHGas implements 'Realtime Blocks' on the Ethereum mainnet..."Transaction speed greatly increased"

Ethereum infrastructure project ETHGas said on the 19th that it has implemented the 'Realtime Blocks (Realtime Blocks)' technology on the Ethereum mainnet, which can split blocks into 0.1 seconds (100ms) units. This technology is evaluated as a core

Taiko Stack Selected as Base Technology for ENS 'Namechain'

Taiko (TAIKO), an Ethereum (ETH) rollup project, announced on the 18th that Taiko's stack has been adopted as the underlying technology for the Ethereum Name Service (ENS)'s Namechain. Namechain is a new Layer 2 blockchain that ENS is pursuing. ENS w

Ostium draws attention as an on-chain derivatives trading platform based on RWA

As derivative trading based on real-world assets (RWA) expands in the crypto market, Ostium is drawing attention. Ostium is an Arbitrum-based perpetual futures platform designed to allow direct trading of foreign exchange, indices, commodities, equit

Korbit opens coin lending service…24 virtual assets available for borrowing

Domestic virtual assets (cryptocurrencies) exchange Korbit (Korbit) said on the 17th that it officially opened its 'coin lending' service, which allows borrowing up to 24 virtual assets. Korbit users can borrow up to 24 coins using a total of 12 asse

Dunamu posts KRW 385.9 billion in Q3 revenue…up 35% QoQ

Dunamu, the operator of the digital asset exchange Upbit, said on the 14th that it significantly raised its third-quarter revenue and operating profit compared with the previous quarter. Dunamu's consolidated revenue for the third quarter of this yea

Bithumb, together with 11st, runs 'Bitcoin Reward Event'

Bithumb said on the 14th that it will run the 'Bithumb Reward Event' with 11st until the 30th of this month. This event was prepared to coincide with 11st's biggest shopping event of the year, 'Grand 11 Day', and is an event in which participants sha

DAXA establishes advertising and promotional standards for virtual asset service providers…"Transparent disclosure of fee rates, etc."

The Digital Asset Exchange Joint Consultative Body (DAXA) announced that it will implement the amendment to the 'Model Guidelines for Advertising and Promotional Activities' governing the overall advertising and promotional conduct of virtual asset s

World introduces 'Real Human Ticketing'…"Providing a fair ticket purchasing environment"

Human network World (WLD) announced on the 13th that it will introduce 'Real Human Ticketing' for the first time in collaboration with Latin music's representative artist Ricardo Arjona, his team Mundo Arjona, Agencia Followers, and Be Smart Mobile.

[Op-Ed] The Common Language of an Autonomous Economy: Stablecoins in the AI Era and South Korea's Strategic Choices

Seojun Kim, CEO of Hashed The current discourse and concerns surrounding stablecoins are reminiscent of the mid-1990s when the internet first emerged. Many at the time viewed the internet simply as an "email system" or a "digital library," considerin

Wemade Releases Source Code for Won-Denominated Stablecoin-Dedicated Blockchain 'StableNet'

Wemade announced on the 10th that it has published the testnet source code of "StableNet", Korea's first Layer-1 blockchain mainnet dedicated to won-denominated stablecoins, on GitHub. StableNet is the brand identity (B.I.) of the won-denominated sta

D'CENT launches Multi-App Wallet…"Manage assets of 100 wallets with one app"

D'CENT, a digital asset wallet service, announced on the 10th that it officially launched the 'Multi-App Wallet' feature through the app version 8.1.0 update. The core of this Multi-App Wallet feature is simplicity and integration. Users can create u

Dunamu releases 'UDC 2025' content... includes discussion with Trump's son

Dunamu, the operator of domestic virtual asset exchange Upbit, announced on the 9th that it will release for free the presentation videos and reports from the 'Upbit D Conference (UDC) 2025', which was held last September. UDC is a domestic blockchai

Art Cube 2R2 to host Xavier Salmon photo exhibition… Seoul and Paris meet on hanji

Xavier Salmon, director of the Graphic Arts Department at the Louvre Museum in France and an expert on 17th–18th century European art, will present the photo exhibition 'Spirit of Korea, Spirit of Paris : The Curator's Eye' at the Seoul Art Cube 2R2

"AI pays on its own"… SOON launches 'x402 social experiment'

High-performance SVM rollup SOON announced on the 7th that it is starting the 'x402 social experiment' project to test the economic autonomy of artificial intelligence (AI) agents. This experiment focuses on verifying a new form of market mechanism i

Com2uS rebrands XPLA token name to 'CONX'..."Leaping into global infrastructure"

Com2uS Holdings announced on the 6th that the global blockchain mainnet 'XPLA(XPLA)', in which it participates, will proceed with token rebranding. XPLA(XPLA) passed a rebranding proposal in a recent vote to change XPLA's token name and symbol to 'CO

D'CENT runs Tap That Drop campaign with Polygon-based community project 'APEPE'

Hardware wallet brand D'CENT's operator IoTrust announced on the 5th that it has selected APEPE as the 11th partner for 'Tap That Drop'. Tap That Drop is an interactive campaign that provides various quests and rewards to D'CENT app users through col

Humanity Protocol strengthens Human ID convenience through collaboration with Mastercard

The decentralized identity verification project Humanity Protocol is strengthening technical cooperation with Mastercard. Through this collaboration, Humanity Protocol's identity verification technology is expected to be further strengthened. Humanit

League of Traders selects Intuition (TRUST) as second Trader Map project… allocates 100,000 USDC

Virtual asset (cryptocurrency) social trading platform League of Traders (LOT) announced on the 5th that it has officially onboarded its second Trader Map project, Intuition (TRUST), and started a global event worth 100,000 USDC. The event runs for f

ETHGas "will implement a fee-free Ethereum network"

Ethereum (ETH) infrastructure project ETHGas said on the 5th that it is launching the construction of a real-time blockspace financial market to solve structural problems of the Ethereum network, such as transaction delays and gas fee (fee) volatilit

Ethereum infrastructure project 'ETHGas' holds first official meetup in Seoul

Ethereum (ETH) infrastructure project 'ETHGas' announced on the 5th that it held its first official meetup in Seoul. This event was ETHGas's first offline official meetup, drawing significant interest as more than 1,400 people registered within a wee