Bank Of Korea Dives Into Crypto: Deposit Tokens Head To Public Chains
The Bank of Korea is moving ahead with plans to tie its own digital tokens to the wider crypto world. It wants to link a central‐bank deposit token to public blockchain networks. This push could reshape how money moves in South Korea and beyond. Related Reading: Double Trouble: Crypto User Loses $2.5M By Copying Same […]
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As one of the major indicators for the valuation of public chains, Total Value Locked (TVL) measures the level of prosperity and the fundamentals of a public chain’s ecosystem, especially for public chains with extensive applications on DeFi. During the short bull market that has just ended, native public chain tokens differed from one another in terms of their performance in the secondary market. Even for public chains with moderate performance like BSC, the TVL rebounded after the May 19 crash. However, their token prices have been lower than those of other public chains (e.g. Solana)....
Switzerland-based crypto bank SEBA is adding support for three defi tokens, bringing the number of cryptocurrencies available on its platform to a total of nine. SEBA clients are able to buy, store and trade with fiat any of these cryptos. SEBA Bank Supports the Coins of 3 Defi Protocols With the new tokens, SEBA Bank is not only expanding its offering but entering into the decentralized finance (defi) world, the fintech noted in an official announcement published this week. The financial company believes it’s now supporting “the tokens of the most important defi protocols....
DBS and Kinexys by JPMorgan are working on a plan to let tokenized bank deposits move between their on-chain systems. The goal is to let customers of the two banks send and receive deposit tokens around the clock, and to make those tokens usable on both permissioned ledgers and public blockchains like Base. The effort […]
The Bank of Korea (BOK) has urged lawmakers to adopt a bank-led model for stablecoin issuance ahead of the upcoming regulatory framework, warning that Korean Won (KRW)-pegged tokens could “repeat past monetary failures.” Related Reading: Crypto Wins Legal Status In India — High Court Calls It ‘Property’ BOK Raises Financial Stability Concerns On Monday, the […]