Hana Bank Buys 6.55% of Upbit Parent Dunamu in $670M Crypto Push
Hana Bank has acquired a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, the operator of South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit. The deal marks one of the clearest signs yet that major Korean banks are moving deeper into digital assets. Ka...
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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This maps to the Institutional Adoption hub, so it can help confirm whether that theme is gaining breadth across the crypto news cycle.
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