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Best Cryptocurrencies Companies in Seoul, South Korea

The 118 best Cryptocurrencies companies in Seoul, South Korea in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Bithumb.

118companies tracked
$616.1Mdisclosed funding
1unicorns
24have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · CRYPTOCURRENCIES × SEOUL

Our analysis of 50 Cryptocurrencies companies

$7.1b in tracked funding; 100% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2026.

50companies analysed
100%cloud-native stacks
2026funding peak (by rounds)
10unicorns
2020median founding year

Ranked: Best Cryptocurrencies companies in Seoul

#CompanyLast roundDisclosed fundingStageFounderEmployeesTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
12Gather
Online crypto social trading platform
——Funding RaisedJason Kim
CEO
——25 patents
Contactless visitor authentication and touch-screen UI pattern generation for data transmission systems.
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2AIR Wallet
Decentralized cryptocurrency wallet
——UnfundedTaeyoung Cho
Co-Founder & COO
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3Alphanonce
Provider of trading advisory services
——Funding RaisedJihun Mun
Founder
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4Amond
Blockchain-based crypto payments & streaming solutions
——Funding RaisedJeong Ju-hyung
CEO
——11 patents
Digital content platform services: e‑commerce, fan interaction, video calls, anti‑counterfeit trading.
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5apM Coin
Blockchain-based payment platform
——Funding RaisedRichard Il Seok
CEO & Director
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6bankoNverse
Financial services for the web3 industry
——UnfundedBang Dae-Seong
CEO
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7Berith Scan
Blockchain explorer
——UnfundedSuwoong Lim
CEO
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8Bicobit
Exchange platform for cryptocurrencies
——DeadpooledYeon Jong Choi
CEO
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Top 12 Cryptocurrencies companies in Seoul

#1
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019
$21.1Mraised
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Provider of blockchain infrastructure for staking, custody, and node operation. The company supports blockchain networks, enabling financial solutions. It offers staking solutions, secure custody for digital assets, and node services. The company also provides a multi-chain wallet that gives control over digital assets.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2025Series B$9.6M
  • Jul 2025Series B$11.6M
Founders & team
Jiyun KimCo-Founder & Chief Executive OfficerJongkwang KimCo-Founder & VP of EngineeringHyung-Kyu ChoiCo-Founder & COO
Investors
InterVest, NICE, SK Securities, Han River Partners, IBK Capital, S2L Partners
#2
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2016 · 61 employees
$20Mraised
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Web3 enabler offering white-label blockchain solutions. It offers Parameter W for wallet as a service, Parameter N for NFT as a service, Parameter S for STO as a service, Parameter T for token management as a service, and more. Its features include solutions for key management, wallet creation, NFT distributions, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 631 LinkedIn followers — 3.7% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2024Series B$6.7M
  • Jul 2020Series A$5M
  • Oct 2019Series A$8.3M
Founders & team
Jonghyup KimCEO
Investors
Shinhan Venture Investment, Korea Asset Investment Securities, Korea Technology Finance, T S Investment, K-Growth", Kiwoom Investment
#3
Dunamu 🦄
Acquired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2012 · 227 employees
$138.2Mraised
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Online exchange platform for cryptocurrency. It enables users to buy, sell, and exchange cryptocurrency. It offers asset management and investment solutions. It also offers securities information and monitors stock portfolio solutions for users.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 14k LinkedIn followers — 83.2% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · hiring: DevOps Engineer
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2021Series C$85.3M
  • Feb 2021Series B$52.2M
  • 2017Series A—
  • Feb 2015Seed$453K
Investors
Altos Ventures Management, Hana Financial Group, Atinum Investment, Saehan Venture Capital, Hanwha, Stonebridge Capital
#4
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2023
$5Mraised
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Cryptocurrency liquid staking platform. It offers a liquid staking solution for Celestia's TIA coins providing on-chain rewards for staking. It enables users to stake on multiple blockchains and validators.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2024Seed$5M
Founders & team
Josie LeungCo-Founder
Investors
Binance, Polychain, Hack VC, CRYPTO, LongHash
#5
Acquired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2013 · 105 employees
$78.6Mraised
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App-based exchange platform for cryptocurrency. It enables users to buy, sell, exchange, deposit, withdrawal digital assets, and more. It supports cryptocurrency including Bitcoin, Etherium, Litecoin, and more. The app is available for Android and iOS platforms.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers — 8.3% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2021Series B$75.2M
  • 2016Series A—
  • Aug 2014Series A$3M
  • Jan 2014Seed$400K
Investors
Sk-square.com, Korea Investment Holdings, Pantera Capital, BAM Ventures, Strong Ventures, SBVA
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesAmplitudeAtlassian StatuspageBraze
#6
Acquired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2013
$200Mraised
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Bithumb is a cryptocurrency exchange platform in South Korea. Offers Bithumb Cash for cryptocurrency payments using barcodes. Offers crypto market data and a crypto wallet.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2019Series A$200M
Founders & team
Backyoung HeoCEO
Investors
SBI Investment, ID Ventures, IBC Media, Korea Investment Holdings
Tech stack
AkamaiAkamai Bot ManagerAlpine.JsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#7
Series A · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2018 · 22 employees
$52.8Mraised
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Developer of blockchain wallet designed for the web3 market. The company offers data-driven insights on the blockchain market by issuing institutional-grade reports and identifying and eliminating security vulnerabilities in blockchain projects, enabling clients with blockchain wallet and custody services.

Founders & team
Jinwoo RoCEO
Investors
Mirae Asset, Kakao Investment, A-Ventures, Shinhan Futures Lab, KT Investment
#8
Acquired · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2017
$23.7Mraised
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Gopax is a cryptocurrency exchange platform. Users can buy, sell and exchange cryptocurrencies on the platform. The platform charges a percentage maker of 0.040 and a taker fee of 0.040. Supports multiple cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ripple, Litecoin and Ethereum.

Funding rounds
  • May 2022Series B$23.7M
  • Sep 2021Conventional Debt—
Founders & team
Yeunjin KongCo-FounderJames ParkCo-Founder
Investors
Digital Currency Group, Strong Ventures, Z Venture Capital, KB Investment, SHINHAN
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesAppsflyerCore-Js
#9
Series B · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2019 · 35 employees
$20.3Mraised
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Research platform for cryptocurrencies. The platform collects, verifies, and integrates corporate disclosures from global projects and companies that have issued crypto-assets. It sources and curates on-chain data and assists in off-chain inputs.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2022Series B$17M
  • Jul 2020Series A$3.3M
Founders & team
Junwoo KimFounderHyunwoo LeeCo-Founder & CSOKim JunwooCo-Founder & Co-CEO
Investors
KB Investment, Shinhan Capital, Premier Partners, IMM Investment, Hanwha Investment & Securities, Bitscale Capital
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesEchartsFirebaseFont AwesomeGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#10
Seed · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2021
$800Kraised
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An automated trading platform for the crypto market. It features a marketplace using a contribute-to-earn model where users can contribute as an algorithm maker or trading expert.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 585 LinkedIn followers — 3.4% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Senior Research Specialist - HFT (Crypto), Business Development Specialist
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2024Seed$800K
Founders & team
Park JinCEO
Investors
HanmiGlobal, Asia Capital, Amoeba Technologies, Shilla Asset Management, Itrust Asset Management, Sun Gold Exchange
Tech stack
Ant DesignApexcharts.JsCloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsCore-JsGoogle Analytics
#11
Funding Raised · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2016 · 5 employees
$24Mraised
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EdenChain is a decentralized blockchain platform which claims to enable tokenization of various physical and digital products and services to increase their liquidity. The smart contracts of the platform can connect to off-chain services and it also has several security checks in place to ensure smooth functioning.

Funding rounds
  • May 2018ICO$24M
Founders & team
Jenny ryooCo-FounderJames AhnCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Obsidian Capital, AlphaCoin Fund, Blockgroundcapital, Bixin Invest, Kosmos Ventures
#12
Funding Raised · Seoul, Seoul · founded 2017
$22.9Mraised
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Hycon, stand for Hyperconnected coin, is a digital asset built on top of a blockchain project called Infinity. The blockchain utilizes DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) structure and has the capability to publish several blocks simultaneously with the ability to resolve conflicting transactions and reject double-spends through the SPECTRE consensus algorithm. The company also plans to build a decentralized exchange for token trading.

Funding rounds
  • May 2018ICO$22.9M
Founders & team
Taewon KimCEO
Investors
Seedvc
Tech stack
UbuntuNginx

Funding & investor landscape

$616.1Mtotal disclosed funding
19companies funded
27disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
FoundationX4 rounds
Strong Ventures4 rounds
Block Crafters Capital3 rounds
Digital Currency Group3 rounds
NEOPLY3 rounds
Shinhan Venture Investment3 rounds
BASS Investment2 rounds
Bitscale Capital2 rounds
DSC Investment2 rounds
Four Asian Tigers2 rounds

Notable founders

Jiyun Kim
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer · DSRV
Jongkwang Kim
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering · DSRV
Jonghyup Kim
CEO · PARAMETA
Josie Leung
Co-Founder · MilkyWay
Backyoung Heo
CEO · Bithumb
Jinwoo Ro
CEO · Hexlant
Yeunjin Kong
Co-Founder · GOPAX
James Park
Co-Founder · GOPAX
Junwoo Kim
Founder · Xangle
Hyunwoo Lee
Co-Founder & CSO · Xangle
Park Jin
CEO · Titan Trading Platform
Jenny ryoo
Co-Founder · EdenChain
Prism market signals · South Korea · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,039,837 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Cryptocurrencies coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH FROM Seoul · institutions

What Seoul researches in cryptocurrency

Seoul National University and allied institutions lead blockchain security and complex systems time series research across 23 papers, with recent work (16 post-2020) skewing optimistically toward breakthroughs over concerns.

23 papersstance +0.4142% breakthrough26% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
local research themes
Blockchain Technology Applications and SecurityComplex Systems and Time Series AnalysisFinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital FinanceCryptography and Data SecurityDigital Platforms and EconomicsStock Market Forecasting Methods
top institutions
  • Seoul National University14
  • Seoul School of Integrated Sciences and Technologies4
  • Seoul National University of Science and Technology2
  • Seoul National University of Education1
  • Seoul Medical Center1

Common questions

How many Cryptocurrencies companies are there in Seoul, South Korea?
Radar tracks 118 indexable Cryptocurrencies companies headquartered in Seoul, South Korea that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Cryptocurrencies companies in Seoul, South Korea?
The Cryptocurrencies companies in Seoul, South Korea on this list have raised a combined $616.1M in disclosed equity funding across 19 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Cryptocurrencies company in Seoul, South Korea?
Bithumb is the highest-funded Cryptocurrencies company in Seoul, South Korea, with $200M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Cryptocurrencies companies in Seoul, South Korea are funded?
19 of the 118 Cryptocurrencies companies in Seoul, South Korea on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Cryptocurrencies unicorns are there in Seoul, South Korea?
1 Cryptocurrencies company in Seoul, South Korea on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Seoul, South Korea Cryptocurrencies companies?
The most active investors in Seoul, South Korea Cryptocurrencies companies on this list include FoundationX, Strong Ventures, Block Crafters Capital, Digital Currency Group, NEOPLY.
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