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Sonny Kwon
Stories by Sonny Kwon
- CHON Corp. Bets on Human Relationships to Verify Identity in AI Era
SEOUL — CHON Corp. is betting that one of humanity’s oldest forms of trust — personal relationships — can become a new layer of digital identity verification as artificial intelligence makes it increasingly difficult …
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- TokenPost Ranks Second Among Major Crypto News Sites in August Traffic
South Korean publisher drew 1.69 million visits, trailing CoinDesk and staying ahead of BeInCrypto, The Block and Cointelegraph
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- [Interview] DeFi's Next Layer Is Coordination, Not Bridges, Says SODAX's CEO
SODAX, founded by ICON's Min Kim, is building a cross-network execution and settlement protocol across 18+ blockchains — and argues the industry's next job isn't moving assets between chains, but coordinating them SEO…
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- [Interview] 'Everyone Should Be Trading Perps': A Conversation With Variational Founder Lucas Schuermann
Fresh off a $50 million raise led by Dragonfly, the Goldman Sachs and Google alum explains why his platform is built like a brokerage instead of an exchange — and why the real demand for on-chain markets hasn't been d…
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- [Interview] WeFi's CEO Says Crypto Should Spend Like Cash — Visa Agrees
Maksym Sakharov built a deobank with 150,000 users before most people knew what one was. Now he has Visa as a partner and Korea in his sights.
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- Korea's Largest Crypto Media Turns Investigative Data Into a Live Public Database
TokenPost launches Token Watch, a real-time monitoring site tracking 608 listed tokens — 66% of which never responded to basic investor inquiries
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- Korea's Crypto Market Has a Transparency Crisis. TokenPost Went Looking for Answers.
Of 637 tokens listed on domestic exchanges, only 8% responded to investor inquiries. More than 140 had no contact information at all.
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- Seoul's Market Watchdog Turns to AI to Catch Crypto Manipulators
FSS builds real-time monitoring and automated suspect-cluster detection as unfair trading grows more sophisticated
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- OpenBox AI Raises $5 Million to Build Trust Infrastructure for Enterprise Agent Deployments
Startup targets compliance gap as autonomous AI systems spread across industries ahead of EU regulatory enforcement
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- SEC, CFTC Classify Fan Tokens as Non-Securities in Landmark Crypto Interpretation
Joint framework explicitly names Chiliz's Socios.com fan tokens as digital collectibles, clearing path for U.S. sports franchises
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- Editorial | Dear BIS: An Anchor Is Not a Destination
Elegant mathematics, familiar conclusions — why does the central bankers' bank always sail home to the same port?
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- A New Diagnostic Tool Wants to Tell Crypto Traders Why They Keep Making the Same Mistakes
Behavioral finance meets personality testing in a platform that maps investor psychology to 16 archetypes — and then prescribes exactly what to do about it.
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- TokenPost Jumps to Second in Global Crypto Media Ranking Amid Market Turbulence
TokenPost (tokenpost.kr), Korean edition of TokenPost and South Korea's leading crypto media outlet, has secured the second position in global crypto media traffic rankings for January 2026. This achievement comes ami…
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- South Korea Set to Lift ICO Ban, Restricting Issuance to Registered Corporates
Regulators plan to reverse the 2017 prohibition on domestic coin issuance.
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- Crypto Project Lured Investors With Trump Link and $100 Million Claim
MOVA Chain promoted $100 million in funding; backer now calls it "valuation"
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- Opinion | The Clash of Paradigms: Why S&P Got Tether Wrong
The recent war of words between S&P Global and Tether isn’t just corporate drama. It is the sound of tectonic plates shifting in the global financial landscape.
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- South Korea’s FIU Hits Dunamu with ₩35.2 Billion Fine Over AML Failures
South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has imposed a record ₩35.2 billion fine—about $26 million—on Dunamu Inc., the operator of cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, for what regulators described as systemic failur…
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- Flare Aims to Deliver Real Yields to XRP Holders as the Next-Generation DeFi Hub
New York — In an exclusive interview with TokenPost, Dhruv Shah, DeFi Analyst at Flare, shared the platform’s bold vision to transform the XRP ecosystem into a sustainable, transparent, and fully composable on-chain y…
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- Trump Pardons Binance Founder Zhao, Calls Him a Victim of Biden’s Crypto Crackdown
U.S. President Donald Trump granted a full pardon on Wednesday to Changpeng Zhao, founder of Binance Holdings Ltd., the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Trump said Zhao was “a victim of the Biden administratio…
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- AI Takes Center Stage at the Fed’s Payments Conference
Washington D.C. — Artificial intelligence (AI) officially took center stage at the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Payments Innovation Conference on October 21, marking a pivotal moment in the central bank’s acknowledgment of …
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- The Federal Reserve Brings Stablecoins to the Policy Stage — “The Digital Dollar Era Has Already Begun”
Washington, D.C. — For the first time, the U.S. Federal Reserve formally placed stablecoins at the center of policy discussion during its Payments Innovation Conference on October 21. In a session titled “Stablecoin U…
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- Fed Brings DeFi to the Main Stage — “Traditional Finance and Blockchain Are Now Entering the Integration Era”
Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Federal Reserve took a historic step on Oct. 21 by featuring decentralized finance (DeFi) as an official agenda topic at its Payments Innovation Conference in Washington, D.C. In its first-…
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- Fed’s Waller: “Payments Revolution Is Here — and the Federal Reserve Must Be Part of It”
Washington, D.C. — Federal Reserve Governor Christopher J. Waller said the U.S. central bank intends to play an active role in the ongoing technological transformation of the global payments system, highlighting token…
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- South Korea to Ban Interest Payments on Stablecoins as Part of First Official Regulatory Framework
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has drawn a clear line in the sand: stablecoins will not be allowed to pay interest. The move marks the government’s first official guideline as it brings digital asse…
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- Bank of Korea Chief Calls for Stronger Central Bank Role in Stablecoin Oversight
Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Rhee Chang-yong reiterated the need to strengthen the central bank’s role in South Korea’s upcoming stablecoin regulatory framework, arguing that such digital instruments directly affect m…
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- South Korea to Fast-Track Stablecoin Law, Eyes Bill Submission by Year-End
South Korea’s top financial regulator signaled an accelerated push to legislate stablecoins, outlining plans to submit a bill within the year while preparing corresponding enforcement decrees in advance.
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- The OpenAI Paradox: When AGI Ideals Meet a $1 Trillion Bill
The recent fanfare surrounding OpenAI’s international outreach—such as the high-level meeting in South Korea—fails to mask the existential crisis brewing at its core. Beneath the staggering valuation and revolutionary…
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- The DAT Bubble: Not the End, But the Upgrade
The Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) was once the corporate world’s gateway to crypto glory. By placing Bitcoin on their balance sheets, firms hoped to project modernity, innovation—even courage. That illusion is now coll…
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- Aptos Experience Day 2: A Quiet Maturity Settles Over Web3
The second day of Aptos Experience 2025 at ZeroSpace in Brooklyn didn’t feel like a typical blockchain conference. It felt like a reckoning — a moment when the builders, investors, and dreamers of Web3 finally paused …
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- Binance Secures Final Approval to Acquire Gopax, Marking Return to South Korea After Four Years
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has completed its acquisition of South Korean trading platform Gopax, signaling the company’s official return to the Korean market after a four-year hiatus.
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- Where Code Meets the Real World: Inside Day 1 of Aptos Experience 2025
New York — The air over Brooklyn carried that unmistakable crispness of early autumn — cool, alive, and charged with anticipation. From the moment the doors opened, the hum of conversation and the glow of screens fill…
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- Wall Street’s Tokenization Drive Gains Speed as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Galaxy Embrace On-Chain Assets
New York — The world’s biggest financial institutions are no longer talking about blockchain in theory — they’re building on it.
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- Aptos CEO Avery Ching Unveils Global Trading Engine to Bring Real-World Finance On-Chain
New York — Aptos Labs co-founder and chief executive Avery Ching outlined a sweeping plan to bring capital markets on-chain through what he described as a “Global Trading Engine”, during his keynote address at Aptos E…
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- Crypto.com Named Official Crypto Payments Partner for APEC CEO Summit Korea 2025
Global cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com has been announced as the Official Crypto Payments Partner for the upcoming APEC CEO Summit Korea 2025, scheduled to take place in Gyeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea, fro…
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- Aptos Experience 2025 Returns to New York City on October 15-16
The Aptos Foundation will host its flagship global conference, Aptos Experience 2025, on October 15-16 in New York City, highlighting the evolution of blockchain from theory to real-world use under the theme “Real-Wor…
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- Chiliz Bets on ‘SportFi’ as Fan Tokens Redefine the Economics of Sports
Chiliz wants to turn fan loyalty into an investable asset class. In an interview with TokenPost, Chief Strategy Officer Max Rabinovitch described the company’s effort to build a new “SportFi” ecosystem where fans can …
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- Binance Set to Secure Korean Green Light for Gopax Acquisition by Year-End
South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is poised to approve Binance’s long-delayed takeover of Gopax, signaling a major shift in regulatory posture toward global crypto firms.
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- [Editorial] The Black Swan That Crashed the Crypto Market
It took a single political gesture to expose the fragility of the digital-asset world. When Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on Chinese imports, the cryptocurrency market imploded almost instantly. Within 24 hours…
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- Tokenising the Future — When Prediction Becomes an Asset
For as long as there have been markets, there have been prophets. Humanity’s oldest impulse has always been to pierce the fog of the future. The oracles of Delphi, the astrologers of Babylon, and today’s app developer…
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- [Cartoon] While Retail Sleeps, Capital Works
Bitcoin surged past $126,000 at one time — yet the world stayed quiet.
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