South Korea aims to complete digital asset legislation this year, and the ruling Democratic Party is pushing to submit a government-party package in September. A senior Financial Services Commission official said stablecoin legislation will be wrapped up quickly and will cover definitions, market rules and user protection. Key sticking points include who can issue won-based stablecoins, licensing and reserve management, AML rules, and limits on major shareholders of exchanges. The party plans to rebuild its task force after August leadership appointments.

Harness has launched 'Agent DLC' to help companies run AI agents within existing software development and deployment systems. The product integrates agent-specific evaluation, deployment governance and security controls to reduce issues when moving agents from concept to production. It lets teams build, test, deploy and operate agents in existing CI/CD pipelines. Harness said only 8 percent of organizations have deployed agentic AI in production, citing unpredictability.