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A walk through the crypto jungle at Korea Blockchain Week


Blockchain technology is all about decentralization and virtualization. So it's a little ironic that humans love to come together in person at big

Like traditional tech conferences, the event featured a lot of big names in the field, both the high-profile (Vitalik Buterin, Richard Teng of Binance, and Mark Karpeles among them) and the no-profile (researchers, professors, and many founders of new startups). Image Credits: Kate Park / TechCrunch The arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France last month definitely led to an aftershock for the Telegram-linked Toncoin, which slumped in price in the wake of the news. Japan was the first mover in this space, and Singapore started early, too, with a light-touch regime focused on anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT), according to Chengyi Ong, head of policy for the APAC region at Chainalysis.

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