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🚨 South Korea’s exchanges are cleaning house: 103 cryptocurrencies delisted from the five major platforms in nine months, almost three times as many as a year ago.

📌 The facts (Seoul Economic Daily, Oct. 21, 2026, DAXA data)
• From January through the end of September 2026: 103 tokens delisted from the five major won-denominated exchanges, compared with 40 over the same period in 2025
• From Oct. 1 to 16: 48 tokens nearing the end of trading or placed “under review”
• On Oct. 16 alone: 41 decisions, including 20 trading terminations (Zilliqa, Galaxia, Delabs Games…) and 21 warnings
• Average daily trading volume in South Korea in the first half of the year: ~3.1 trillion won (~$2.2B), less than half what it was a year ago
• $BTC was trading at around $81,700 on Oct. 20, down about 26.5% year over year

🧠 How it works
Korean exchanges review every token at least once a quarter (market capitalization, trading volume, etc.). When a token falls below the minimum thresholds, it receives a warning and may then be delisted. Fewer buyers = lower volume = more tokens failing the test.

👤 Moussa (a fictional character), a mechanic in Abidjan, bought a small, “cheap” token because he kept seeing its name everywhere. If it gets delisted from the platform, he often can’t sell it easily anymore: he has to transfer it somewhere else, if he can find a place, and pay fees.

⚖️ The nuance
• Delisting can clean up the market: many small projects had almost no activity left
• But a temporary dip in volume isn’t the same as failure: experts are calling for more transparent criteria and earlier alerts
• What’s happening in Seoul is happening elsewhere, too: a token with little trading activity is a risk in itself

✅ Before buying a small token, do you check its daily trading volume? 👇

Not financial advice. DYOR.
Source: Seoul Economic Daily (DAXA data).

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