South Korea Stablecoin Bill to Allow Companies to Issue the Tokens: Report

South Korea’s newly elected president pushed forward with a crypto-friendly agenda on Tuesday, asserting new stablecoin laws, in accordance with reviews. 

As first reported by Bloomberg, Lee Jae-myung, proposed the Digital Asset Fundamental Act—a regulation which, if accredited, will permit corporations to difficulty stablecoins if they’ve 500 million gained ($366,749) in fairness capital. 

Stablecoins are digital tokens pegged to the worth on a non-volatile asset—sometimes the U.S. greenback. Such cryptocurrencies run on a lot of totally different blockchains and are imagined to be backed by reserves of the secure asset. 

Crypto is standard in South Korea and Jae-myung—who gained the election final week—is pleasant towards the area. The Democratic Occasion chief in 2022 experimented with NFTs throughout his earlier marketing campaign and has mentioned he’ll permit Bitcoin ETFs to commerce within the nation. 

He has additionally proposed launching a won-pegged stablecoin to stop capital flight, saying that the nation urgently wants “to stop nationwide wealth from leaking abroad.”



And the Financial institution of Korea final month mentioned it was contemplating issuing deposit tokens on a public blockchain to coexist with non-public stablecoins.

Stablecoins are a sizzling matter within the crypto trade: Regulators have been combating over learn how to management the property for years; President Trump backs one digital token; and lawmakers in Washington will vote on a stablecoin invoice this week. 

Various high-profile companies and banks are additionally weighing—or have already—launched stablecoin merchandise. 

Edited by James Rubin