Overview
- Listed companies and licensed professional investors will be eligible to allocate up to 5% of equity capital to cryptocurrencies each year.
- Investments will be confined to the top 20 tokens by market capitalization and executed only on the country’s five licensed exchanges.
- Regulators plan execution controls such as order-size limits and staggered trading to reduce volatility from larger corporate orders.
- Final guidelines are expected in January–February 2026, with corporate trading projected to begin later in 2026 following approval.
- Inclusion of dollar-pegged stablecoins remains unresolved as the Financial Services Commission and the Bank of Korea continue to debate oversight.