Data submitted by South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service, or FSS, to the office of Democratic Party lawmaker Park Hong-bae showed that virtual asset trading volume in the country dropped by more than 50% over the past year. The same data also pointed to a highly concentrated market structure, with the top 10% of users accounting for more than 96% of total trading volume. For the first half of 2026, the concentration ratio among the top 10% of users at major exchanges stood at 95.6% for Upbit, 97.41% for Bithumb, 99.2% for Coinone, 99.43% for Digital X, and 97.61% for Gopax. The figures were cited by Odaily.
South Korea’s virtual asset trading volume fell by more than 50% over the past year, according to data the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) submitted to the office of Democratic Party lawmaker Park Hong-bae.
The data also showed that the top 10% of users accounted for more than 96% of total trading volume, pointing to a high level of concentration in trading activity.
In the first half of 2026, the top-10% user concentration ratio at each exchange was 95.6% for Upbit, 97.41% for Bithumb, 99.2% for Coinone, 99.43% for Digital X, and 97.61% for Gopax.
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