[South Korea Plans to Open Virtual Asset Accounts to Approximately 3,500 Companies, Central Bank to Test AI-Agent Deposit Tokens by Late 2026] Odaily Planet Daily News: Factblock CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park stated that South Korea's crypto market is shifting from retail-driven trading to institutional digital finance. The focus of global financial institutions and enterprises has moved from tokens, exchanges, and prices to custody, tokenization, stablecoins, payment settlement infrastructure, and regulatory compliance. The South Korean Financial Services Commission has proposed a framework to open corporate virtual asset accounts to approximately 3,500 listed companies and registered professional investors. The South Korean National Assembly has officially passed amendments to the Electronic Securities Act and the Capital Markets Act, incorporating tokenized real-world assets and security tokens into a unified legal framework. The Bank of Korea has completed preliminary trials for Project Hangang, a real-world deposit token initiative, and plans to conduct the second phase of institutional testing by late 2026. Relevant technical experiments have utilized wholesale deposit tokens, enabling AI agents to execute automated conditional transactions. (Bitcoin.com News)