South Korea to Open Virtual Asset Accounts for 3,500 Companies, Central Bank Plans AI-Driven Deposit Token Testing by 2026
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Prefer us on GoogleThe Financial Services Commission of South Korea plans to open corporate virtual asset accounts to approximately 3,500 listed companies and registered professional investors. The National Assembly has passed amendments to the Electronic Securities Act and the Capital Markets Act, incorporating tokenized real-world assets and security tokens into a unified legal framework. The Bank of Korea has completed preliminary trials for the Project Hangang real-world deposit token project and plans to conduct a second phase of institutional testing by the end of 2026, with relevant technical experiments already utilizing wholesale deposit tokens to enable AI agents to execute automated conditional trading.
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