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South Korea crypto market size seen at 603 trillion won, top in East Asia

South Korea is East Asia\'s largest cryptocurrency market, followed by Japan, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis estimated South Korea\'s crypto economy at $449.1 billion for July 2025 to June 2026, up 12.3 percent from a year earlier. Active retail trading led growth, with AI-related tokens rising in won markets. Japan saw increased use of decentralised exchanges, while peer-to-peer trading dominated in China.

AI & Enterprise

Iris-based World ID can overcome limits of captchas and KYC for proof of personhood in AI era

Tools For Humanity, which develops the iris-based ID project World, said proof of personhood is becoming more important in the AI era and that World ID can overcome the limits of captchas and KYC checks. Chief Business Officer Trevor Traina said bots generate more than half of web activity and can now replicate IDs, weakening existing verification. He said the World app has nearly 40 million downloads and 18 million users verified via Orb.

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Grayscale says AI adoption will boost demand for public blockchains, cites three demand drivers

Grayscale has forecast that wider adoption of AI will increase demand for public blockchains. Grayscale Research head Zach Pandl (잭 팬들) said AI and public blockchains are complementary, with blockchain able to meet AI-specific needs that existing systems struggle to handle. He cited three areas where demand could rise: financial transactions and payments, verification of computation, identity and reputation records, and decentralised AI infrastructure.