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South Korea Orders Crypto Exchanges to Verify Asset Holdings Every 5 Minutes. One Exchange Error Made It Happen.

The FSC's emergency inspection found three of South Korea's five major platforms reconciling balances only once every 24 hours. The trigger: Bithumb crediting 620,000 BTC — roughly $56 billion — to 249 users instead of 620,000 Korean won. Regulators have now mandated five-minute reconciliation cycles, automatic kill switches, monthly external audits, and daily public disclosure of results. The deadline is May 2026.

By Ramy Morton
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HYPE Is Up 77% This Year. Bitwise Says the Market Still Has It Wrong.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan called Hyperliquid one of the most mispriced assets in crypto. The firm launched a HYPE ETF on the NYSE, pledged to buy and hold HYPE with 10% of its management fees, and published a memo arguing investors are making two fundamental errors in how they value the token.

By Jan Whitfield