A PANews article states that Kraken the parent company of Payward has successively acquired a derivatives platform, payment companies, and European banks, and is expanding its financial-business footprint under the leadership of co-CEO CEO Arjun Sethi.
The South Korean government plans to October 20 discuss the virtual asset tax planned for implementation next year with five exchanges and DAXA, and hear industry views. The industry says taxation standards and infrastructure for staking, airdrops, and DeFi remain to be improved.
Two people familiar with the matter said the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is taking regulatory action against Coins.ph over alleged services to offshore betting companies, after restricting deposits to the platform through DCPay.
Upbit plans to list on October 12 19: 30 in the KRW and USDT markets GTC. The Smarter Web Company conditionally raises 10000000 pounds and plans to use approximately 4000000 pounds of net proceeds to increase its BTC。
PANews cited an official announcement as saying that Upbit will, at local time on October 12。19: 30 list it on the Korean won and USDT markets GTC token.
The Central Bank of Russia registers the first cryptocurrency trading operators and digital asset custodians,Sberbank plans to December 1 launch products supporting BTC、ETH and USDT.
Japan announced that it would add the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex to the asset-freezing list and restrict related payments and capital transactions, while also sanctioning other organizations, individuals, and the “shadow fleet.”
PANews, citing Digital Asset, reported that South Korea’s five major crypto exchanges September 25 to October 2 had weekly trading volume of 20500000000000 KRW, down week-on-week by 19.56%. Upbit’s share declined, while the shares of exchanges including Bithumb rose.
KoFIU data show that 26 registered virtual asset service providers in South Korea 2026 saw operating profit, sales, average daily trading volume, and customer deposits decline in the first half of the year compared with the previous half.