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In the construction of Seoul’s Korea Blockchain Week, discussions about a Korean who won stablecoin were among the leading tales.
The idea carries political weight and places local currencies as digital alternatives to the US dollar. However, despite the enthusiasm, most Asian currencies are hindered by capital control that makes them unsuitable for global circulation. It leaves the Hong Kong dollar as the region’s only really usable stableecoin base.
In Korea is a bill to legalize stableecoin’s path through the country’s legislative bodies. Legislators are aware that the initiative is not intended to globalize Won; Offshore use is impossible because of Korea’s rules after 1997, aiming to prevent capital flight. South America’s re-dollarization via USDT is an example of something that legislators in Korea do not want.
Instead, it is beaten as a defense of monetary sovereignty against dollar -based tokens. Korea’s central bank manager says he is not against won stableecoins, but has concern about foreign convertibility.
But the same limitations that retain sovereignty also block international tools. Korea’s Won cannot circulate offshore without triggering the same risks of capital flying that scored the economy in 1997.
Without cutting a special jurisdiction or sandbox where such a token could flow freely, effectively mimic Hong Kong’s sar status, a KRW StableCoin will remain limited to the domestic market.
The paradox extends to other Asian currencies. Taiwan’s new Taiwan dollar is locked inside his limits. Renminbi is only partially convertible, limited in the capital account, which is why Beijing is dependent on the offshore CNH market. In both cases, local stableecoin proposals earn a domestic policy agenda, but cannot scale globally.
Hong Kong separates himself. Its dollar is fully convertible, supported by a currency board that links it to the US dollar (within a trading tape) through extensive reserves.
Capital flows are unlimited and HKD is already widely used internationally in bond markets and for cross -border settlements. A tokenized HKD would be the only Asian stableecoin capable of circulating globally, with the Broderge of domestic political needs with international liquidity.
The irony is that capital control designed to protect the monetary sovereignty ultimately reinforces the dominance of dollar -supported stableecoins. Unless regional governments are willing to liberalize, HKD remains the only local currency that can plausibly challenge USDC and USDC on a global scene.
But what is the poenget? With its stick is HKD a de-facto US DOLLAR STABLECOIN ALREADY.
Market movements
BTC: Bitcoin acts flat for $ 112K when ETF streams become negative. Investors drew $ 363 million. From BTC ETFs, when the week began, according to data curated by Sosovalue.
ETH: ETH is underpinned BTC in the short term as speculative demand soften and risk sights are weakened, even as long -term drivers such as effort and defi remain supportive.
Gold: Gold climbing to fresh heights, driven by expectations of US raise cuts, a weaker dollar and demand for a safe harbor in the midst of macrous certainty.
Nikkei 225: Markets in the Asia-Stophavet fell Wednesday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 down 0.33%as shares in the region track their American colleagues.
S&P 500: The US equity futures held steady on Tuesday night after the S&P 500 ended a three-day winning row and withdrew from record heights.
Elsewhere in crypto:
- US CFTC is moving toward getting stableecoins involved in tokenized security tasks (Coindesk)
- Morgan Stanley will activate Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana Trading via E*Trade (Decrypt)
- Binance-Med Founder Changpen Zhao rejects the claim that Yzi Labs will take on capital outside (the block)
