Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Has South Korea Asking Exchanges to Hold More Crypto Offline
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South Korea’s Financial Services Commission summoned Upbit, Bithumb and other local exchanges to an emergency meeting after Binance disclosed a $6.3 billion hack, pressing them to shift more customer crypto into offline storage, hold additional reserves and monitor withdrawals around the clock. The regulator’s demands signal that Seoul intends to treat the Binance incident as a stress test for domestic platforms rather than a remote event. Watch whether Korean exchanges publish revised cold-storage ratios and reserve figures, and whether the FSC converts the verbal requests into binding rules.
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