South Korea’s Biggest Cryptocurrency Exchange to Conduct ICO in Switzerland

Date 2018/4/21 16:14:54 | Topic: Community

Earlier this week, a South Korean mainstream media outlet reported that Bithumb, South Korea’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is conducting an initial coin offering (ICO) later this year to launch its own cryptocurrency Bithumb Coin.


By Joseph Young for CCN, Apr 21, 2018

 

Bithumb Coin

 

Some of the largest cryptocurrency trading platforms valued at billions of dollars such as Binance, Kucoin, and Huobi have already released their native tokens that can be used to trade cryptocurrencies and pay fees. On Binance for instance, users can benefit from lower fees in trading by using Binance Coin, and the company benefits from the funds it has raised through the ICO which are used to cover operational costs.

 

In an interview with News1, Bithumb revealed that Bithumb Coin will be released in two parts or types but the company has not disclosed any details about the structure or the purpose of its token. More importantly, Bithumb told News1 that it is not seeking to conduct a public ICO but rather a token sale targeted at institutional investors and large-scale investment firms.

 

Similar to most large-scale ICOs like Telegram, individual investors will only be permitted to participate in the token sale if they either join a big group of other individual investors or partner with institutional investors to purchase Bithumb Coin.

 

Earlier this year, Kakao, the largest internet conglomerate in South Korea that operates KakaoTalk, KakaoPay, KakaoStock, KakaoTaxi, and KakaoStory, five apps that have over 90 percent dominance in their respective industries including messaging, stock brokerage, ride-hailing, and social media, announced that it will likely conduct its ICO outside of South Korea due to the government’s ban on domestic ICOs.

 

Kakao suggested that it may permanently move its blockchain venture to Switzerland as a separate company to Kakao and simply manage it as a subsidiary. Kakao’s potential ICO and blockchain venture are expected to be worth billions of dollars and the relocation of Kakao’s blockchain firm to regions like Switzerland would negatively impact South Korea’s local blockchain sector.

 

Acknowledging the significance of Kakao’s ICO and the value of its blockchain venture, the South Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC) revealed–almost immediately after the rumors surrounding a potential ICO by Kakao were disclosed–that it may legalize domestic ICOs in the near future if taxation policies are in place.

 

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