UpBit

They are transitioning from entertainment to hard infrastructure.

And we are also seeing this globally with companies like MoonPay and Dunamu, which is the parent company of the massive South Korean exchange Upbit.

Right, they're huge.

Very huge.

Okay, I can picture that.

It batches thousands of transactions together off the main road, processes them instantly for fractions of a penny, and then periodically sends a single receipt back down to the main Ethereum highway for secure final settlement.

So MoonPay and Dunamu are building the on-ramps to those high-speed lanes for global commerce.

Man, that's incredible.

If you're on CoinMarketCap, if you go to any asset, doesn't matter what the asset is that you have on CoinMarketCap, you see right here where it says markets, boom, it shows you every place you can buy any asset so you don't have to go hunting for it.

So as you can see, it's not yet, which is surprising to me, it's not yet on Coinbase, but it's on Upbit and Bybit and OKEx, Gate, BitGap, KuCoin, all these different exchanges.

Yeah.

Good looking out.

Uh, okay, no, so Coinbase have added it, so it must've had a few listings in the past couple of weeks.

I haven't seen this, but Coinbase, UpBit, uh, Gate, Kraken has it.

Dude, I need to, I need to get an account on Kraken.

They have good tokens on Kraken.

Oh, man.

You guys like K-pop? Well, so I heard BTS has, I think their agency has a partnership with Upbit, so they're kind of in the realm.

But the cool kids at work are talking about Quartus.

I'm missing that, right? So let's hope for one of them to do a name check on extra P.

Earlier in Korea, Ripple ran a test with Kyobo Life on tokenized government bond settlement using Ripple custody and exploring RLUSD.

And RLUSD was listed on Upbit.

So this Meritz deal is another piece in Ripple's institutional push across Asia Pacific.

What about the regulatory environment? How is Meritz navigating that?

A way in.

13 exchanges switched on direct USDC transfer stow the network on its first day, KuCoin among them, which means a user holding dollars on Binance, Kraken, OKEx, Bybit, Gate, Upbit or KuCoin can move them onto ARK without routing through Ethereum or a bridge.

KuCoin's chief executive B.C. Wang described the integration as a question of access rather than technology, Inves reported.

A chain built for payments and treasury matters only if the people and institutions holding dollars can reach it in one step.

Circle arrived with most of the industries on ramps already connected.

Circle's launch list names 13 exchanges live on day 1.

Binance, Bitso, Bitvavo, Bybit, Coinbase, Gate, Kraken, KuCoin, MEXC, OKEx, OSL, Upbit and Wenia.

Ten wallets came with them, including Metamask, Phantom, Ledger, Trust Wallet, Binance Wallet and OKEx Wallet, plus the Custodians Anchorage, BitGo and Fireblocks, four banks in BNY, HSBC, Societe Generale and State Street, plus the three largest DeFi protocols, Aave, Morpho and Uniswap, which deploy their existing contracts unchanged because ARK runs the Ethereum virtual machine.