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South Korea advances plans to regulate stablecoins as payment instruments alongside separate reporting rules

South Korea’s government and central bank plan to prepare an amendment to the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act this year to regulate stablecoins as payment instruments. This emerges from a local report based on material presented to a parliamentary audit on 22 October 2026. It is a plan to prepare an amendment, not an announcement that the coins already have a new legal status. A separate framework for reporting cross-border digital asset transfers is also progressing.

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Report: wallet attributed to the US government transfers 12,267 Bitfinex bitcoin, with no confirmed sale

On 8 October 2026, reports said a wallet Arkham linked to bitcoin seized in the Bitfinex hack case transferred about 12,267 coins to a new, unnamed address. Decrypt and CoinDesk reported the movement using the company’s data. The described record indicates a transfer, but does not prove that the government sold the coins, who now owns them or why they moved.