Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Solana Ventures has revealed the launch of a $100 million fund dedicated to Web3 startups in South Korea. According to Solana Labs’ general manager Johnny Lee, the capital will be dedicated to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized finance...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Major crypto exchanges in South Korea, including Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and Gopax, have announced their intention to delist Litecoin from their trading services subject to the new privacy-based MimbleWimble upgrade on the Litecoin blockcha...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Solana, one of the biggest Layer-1 blockchain protocols, through its subsidiaries Solana Ventures and Solana Foundation, has launched a $100 million fund to back startups in the South Korea Web3.0 ecosystem.
As by TechCrunch, drawing on the exclu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Major cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea have delisted Litecoin (LTC) weeks after flagging its privacy-focused MimbleWimble (MWEB) upgrade.In a public announcement on Wednesday, Upbit cited the Act on the Reporting and Use of Specific Financial...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Solana Ventures and the Solana Foundation have formed a $100-million fund to help support the growth of nonfungible token (NFT), blockchain gaming and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects in South Korea.In addition to supporting projects built on So...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The “long waves” of TerraUSD’s May 7 collapse, which we noted two newsletters ago, are extending even further. Last week brought some notable reactions to the stablecoin’s depegging in the East Asia region. A Chinese state-owned media outlet, the Eco...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The South Korean science and ICT ministry has said it will recruit companies that will participate in its 2022 Metaverse Content Creation Project. A director in the ministry said the project is being promoted as part of the country’s industry-...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
On Friday, South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) began an investigation into payment gateway services that work with digital assets. The FSS is South Korea’s financial regulator that operates under the Financial Services Commission (FSC),...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Although it remains to see what shape the nascent Metaverse will take, the government of South Korea has become an early investor in it. The move can trigger other states to invest in the technology that may appear at a center stage in the future.
Th...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 2 years ago
FactBlock, Hashed, ROK Capital and MarketAcross have collaborated to bring back the biggest crypto event in Asia.
MarketAcross has been named the official global media partner for the upcoming Korea Blockchain Week (KBW), Asia’s flagship blockchai...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
South Korea, a nation known for its strict crypto regulatory stance, is betting big on the metaverse. The government will invest over 223.7 billion won ($177.1 million) directly in various metaverse projects.The decision to invest in the nascent meta...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
South Korea, a nation known for its strict crypto regulatory stance, is betting big on the Metaverse. The government will invest over 223.7 billion won ($177.1 million) directly in various Metaverse projects.The decision to invest in nascent Metavers...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Seoul, South Korea, 2nd June, 2022, Chainwire
After years of collaboration, FactBlock, Hashed, ROK Capital and MarketAcross partner to bring back the biggest crypto event in Asia
MarketAcross, the world’s leading blockchain PR & marketing firm,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
South Korea will allocate roughly $177 million into the metaverse to fund companies and jobs in this space.
The metaverse, or living in a virtual world, isn’t a new concept, but it’s only now that the hype around it is gaining rapid attention from ma...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Terra ecosystem’s rise and fall has had major consequences all around the world, but there’s no doubt that South Korea, the birthplace of its’ creator, was the most concerned country of them all.Amid signs that Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon w...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Terra ecosystem’s rise and fall has had major consequences all around the world, but there’s no doubt that South Korea, the birthplace of its creator, was the most concerned country of them all.Amid signs that Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon wa...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The government of South Korea has announced it will start investing in metaverse projects directly. More than $177 million dollars will be invested to kickstart national jobs and companies in this field, according to statements made by Lim Hyesook, m...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
South Korea aims to form a digital asset watchdog by June, according to local media sources. The committee will oversee regulation of the space until the government is able to draft basic laws on digital assets.
South Korea Launch Crypto Watchdog
The...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Carried out by the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office’s joint financial and securities crime investigation team, The staff of Embattled blockchain startup Terraform Labs have been called for questioning as part of an investigation.
As by...