# South Korea Opens Crypto Accounts to 3,500 Companies While a Founder Warns Tokenized Stocks Repeat a 1960s Failure

Seoul's package pairs corporate exchange access with legal recognition of tokenized securities and deposit-token trials at nine banks, as the standards problem goes unresolved.

- Published: 2026-08-23T05:46:20.809Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/crypto/2026-08-23/south-korea-opens-crypto-accounts-to-3-500-companies-while-a
- Publisher: Polylog (Crypto desk)
- Section: crypto
- Sources: [crypto.news](https://crypto.news/south-korea-advances-crypto-access-for-3500-companies/), [CoinDesk](https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/08/22/tokenized-stocks-risk-repeating-wall-street-s-1960s-paper-crisis-fairmint-ceo-says)

South Korea has advanced a three-part digital-finance program, according to crypto.news: exchange accounts for roughly 3,500 companies, legal recognition for tokenized securities, and deposit-token trials involving nine banks. Andrew Park,…

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