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By Dan Saada
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What the 24-Hour Network Actually Does. The technical setup is designed so that no investor, regardless of geography, hits a wall when…
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Feedback Will Drive What Comes Next. The Bank of Korea hasn't said when the pilot ends. No official timeline for a full rollout has…
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The Bank of Korea just launched a pilot program. Foreign investors can now settle won-denominated transactions 24 hours a day, matching the business hours of wherever they happen…
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For years, time-zone friction has been a quiet but persistent headache for international investors trying to access South Korean markets.
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The pilot runs on a new network built specifically to process transactions at any hour.
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The technical setup is designed so that no investor, regardless of geography, hits a wall when trying to complete a won transaction. That sounds simple.
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It's worth being clear about what this pilot isn't. It's not a crypto or blockchain initiative, at least not explicitly.
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South Korea's financial markets are large. The country runs one of Asia's more active equity and bond markets, and the won is a significant regional currency.
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And the timing matters. Across Asia, there's been a broader push to make local capital markets more internationally accessible.
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More context: ZetaChain Kills Its Layer 1 and Moves ZETA to Solana After Holder Vote
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That's a pretty standard approach for a central bank running a pilot. You don't commit to a permanent structure until you know the system holds up under real conditions.
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What's unclear is how many investors are currently participating, which markets they're coming from, and what asset classes are covered under the pilot.
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But the direction is clear enough. South Korea wants more foreign capital, and it's willing to rebuild parts of its settlement infrastructure to get it.
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Related: ZetaChain Abandons Layer 1, Moves ZETA to Solana and Shifts Focus to Private AI
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For crypto-adjacent markets, this kind of move matters too. Institutional investors who operate across both traditional and digital asset markets are increasingly sensitive to…
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