South Korea Leads East Asia’s #Bitcoin $BTC Economy at $449B Chainalysis put South Korea’s crypto activity at $449.1 billion from July 2025 to June 2026. That’s up 12.3% from the prior period, and the largest total in East Asia. The rest of the region was slightly lower over the same stretch. East Asia as a whole came in around $1.2 trillion. Retail trading drove most of the Korean figure. By June 2026, AI tokens were the biggest theme in won-denominated volume, led by Worldcoin at about $7.41 billion, then $SAHARA and #VIRTUAL . Won-based AI token volume ran roughly 19.5 times the comparable yen volume. Behind Korea: Japan at about $228 billion, Hong Kong $192 billion, mainland China $176 billion, and Taiwan $140 billion. Korea remains the retail hub. Hong Kong is picking up more institutional flow, and Japan’s users have been moving toward DEXs. #BTC Price Analysis# #Altcoin Season#