
Won Stablecoin Could Cut Korean Merchant Fees by Up to $3.8B a Year
South Korea's National Assembly Budget Office put annual merchant fee savings from a won stablecoin at 370 billion to 5.15 trillion won.
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South Korea's National Assembly Budget Office put annual merchant fee savings from a won stablecoin at 370 billion to 5.15 trillion won.

Strategy bought 1,810,885 preferred shares for $176.3 million in the week to September 7 and left its 845,050 bitcoin untouched.

A watcher.guru carousel ranks the best-returning asset of each decade and ends with bitcoin at 9,000,000% for the 2010s. That figure traces to a Bank of America Securities note from December 2019. A second tally of the same decade lands at 8,900,000%.

Australia's anti-money-laundering regulator cancelled, suspended or refused to renew 45 registrations in a year. One suspension idled 96 crypto ATMs.

Settlement through Visa's network now runs above $20 billion a year, more than 15 times the rate of a year ago. Card issuers get a stablecoin credit line.

The group that emptied Liquid's federation wallet sent back 3,400 BTC and kept 598.5. Four accounts value the remainder at $47 million and one at $48 million.

Simon Gerovich said Metaplanet had not explained its Series 10 rights clearly enough. Shareholders want 273 million shares cancelled and MMXX's owners named.

CoinGecko counted 20.2 million tokens launched between mid-2021 and the end of 2025, and 53.2% were no longer actively traded. Public trackers put the current total anywhere from 8,949 to 59.08 million. The counts do not reconcile.

A social post pairing Jamie Dimon's harshest bitcoin lines with JPMorgan's growing crypto offering is circulating again. The quotes check out. So does the gap between them and what the bank now lets clients do.

The transfer between Singapore and New York settled on Saturday in minutes. How many live transactions the ledger has carried so far is counted two different ways.

The BSP would stop taking new payment operator applications for 12 months and route regulated crypto firms into direct merchant deals under high-risk controls.

Better told CoinDesk it may reuse pledged bitcoin as long as it keeps an equivalent amount to return. Pre-applications since launch stand at $360 million.