Mark Lee

Last week, I hosted a small dinner with SEC Commissioner @HesterPeirce to candidly discuss the state of crypto and #DeFi within the current regulatory environment. The takeaway? We shouldn't wait on regulators to drive the future of DeFi. A 🧵

@0xHanMoon prediction market sessions coming soon 👀

@markjoonlee Great stuff Wish we could do the same for Prediction Markets

Korea is one of crypto’s most important markets but one of the hardest to reach. the retail crowd that actually moves volume here, 40-65, isn’t on tg. they don’t follow crypto native KOLs. but they do trust institutions like Hyundai, so that’s where we’re taking our programming. next week, real onchain markets taught inside Hyundai department store, with the curriculum built alongside @SynFuturesDefi

@guyukyukgu 🙏

@markjoonlee Next level

We’re finally at a point where we can confidently say tokenization is essential to building the next gen finance, without adding new risk metrics to the equation…… if the fundamental choices from day 1 are made right. Getting those fundamentals right requires making the difficult decisions. Minting a token is the easiest part. Minting a token BEFORE the underlying asset settles is the shortcut to serve the ultimate ux because it "guarantees" price and atomic delivery on the surface. But when a rwa token settles with zero slippage, is that real delivery? At Anchored, our tokenized US stock is the proof of concept. We’ve proven we can build the product with regulator-tested structure and lowest latency solution possible. We’re incredibly excited for what we are shipping in Q2.

JUST IN: Hana Bank, one of South Korea’s largest commercial banks, acquired a $670 million stake in Dunamu, the operator of the country’s largest crypto exchange Upbit. The firms also agreed to cooperate on building infrastructure for a won-denominated stablecoin ecosystem.

Korea has overtaken Canada by market capitalization, becoming the world’s seventh-largest stock market. 🇰🇷

🇰🇷 UPDATE: South Korean won trading accounts for ~30% of global crypto spot volume, making it the second-largest fiat market after the U.S. dollar.

SynFutures in Seoul 🇰🇷 From CIS to Perp DEX Night and AI/Infra Con, we connected with builders, traders, and the future of DeFi in Asia. Lots of real momentum. Big conversations. Connections were made. Highlights below in the 🧵

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@FutureHouseKR @SynFuturesDefi @Lighter_xyz @OrderlyNetwork @grvt_io Defi takeover 🙌

Perp DEX Night - hosted by @FutureHouseKR @SynFuturesDefi @Lighter_xyz @OrderlyNetwork @grvt_io the leading teams in perp DEX came together to talk about where the market is heading Talk → Panel → Live trading → Stamp challenge 120+ builders and users in one room one of the most energetic side events at Buidl Week Korea Perp DEX is just getting started

RWA LIVE hosted by @FutureHouseKR @monad @MondayTrade_ @AnchoredFi From “What is RWA?” to live demos of tokenized stocks and next-gen infrastructure — today was about seeing onchain finance actually work. Education → Product → Infrastructure Not a concept anymore. A real system being built.

@hansolar21 🚀

After having worked with the Lighter team for a year and a half, I've decided to take it solo once again! Funny enough, this all started from a cold DM from Manu back in 2024. Before that, I was basically a hermit mostly just trading and posting on X. Thanks to Lighter I ended up doing quite a bit of traveling in 2025 meeting a lot of my favorite accounts as well as new acquaintances through the role. You need a bit of entropy in your life and there's nothing more chaotic than having 12 meetings in 6 different locations in a foreign city. 🏆Some fun achievements over the past 1.5 years · Grew $100k → $5m → $1.5m(masterclass in roundtripping) · Survived 10/10(just barely) · Traded over $2.2b on Lighter(no fees! yay!) · Created perpetualpulse.xyz to track perp dexes · Launched an extension with a whopping 25 users · Grew the Korean market to the most visited geography for Lighter with the amazing mr @IPALAU1 · Won the Korean community trading competition(there were only 20 of us initially) · Spearheaded the listing of the first Korean perps markets · Referred over 500 traders which did over $15b in volume · Perps e-sports post hit 2m views / 2k RTs · Made it onto a PnL card with the Prof Huge thanks to @vnovakovski, @manud_p, @babastianj and the entire Lighter team. Genuinely one of the sharpest groups I’ve worked with. By no means does this mean I won't be using Lighter or supporting the project. I will still likely be doing most of my crypto/rwa trading here. And I still believe the token is one of the few projects out there that has what it takes to be a top 20 coin. Going forward, I'm planning to: · Focus on running my own book at a higher level · Expand focus into equities and AI · Taking long walks with the dogs again So back to flying solo! Peace✌️

Tokenized stocks are now live on @MondayTrade_ Learn more: monday.trade

No more gatekeeping. The next phase of trading is here. Tokenized stocks are now live and open to everyone on Monday Trade 🟣 Speed by @monad, RWAs powered by @AnchoredFi Trade RWAs onchain now 👉 app.monday.trade

Kaiko: Korea accounts for 30% of global crypto trading volume Korea accounts for 30% of global crypto trading volume, with altcoins representing 85% of this activity, Bitcoin just 9%, and Ethereum 6%. Japanese Yen-denominated trading maintains stable $2B-$3B in monthly volumes, a fraction of Korea's $26B weekly average. Yet its market depth on BTC is 3x-5x deeper. x.com/KaikoData/stat…

real orderbooks. onchain. no gas ceiling. our next major upgrade Entropy ships with the SynFutures chain mainnet, and it changes what's possible for decentralized trading. coming soon 🔜

The reason DeFi has never had a real orderbook isn't ambition. It's gas. Every time a trade crosses a price level onchain, it costs gas. Cross enough levels and the transaction fails entirely. This is the problem Entropy solves 🧵👇

Join our Fireside Chat at AI/InfraCon 🔥 Session 1 — Perp DEX We’re bringing together leading voices in on-chain trading: Synfutures @markjoonlee GRVT @emjay_seoul Ninja Labs @_meganpark Together, they’ll explore: “Can Perp DEX Become Core Market Infrastructure?” This session explores whether Perp DEX can surpass CEX volume and what it takes to achieve institutional adoption and become true market infrastructure. 📅 April 15, 2026 | 📍DreamPlus, Gangnam ☑️ RSVP: luma.com/8nzr1zec

get ya money up on Monday Trade

4 hours, builders locked in, ideas turning into something real on BNB Chain in Korea with @FutureHouseKR 🇰🇷 Based in Korea and thinking about joining BUIDL Camp or submitting to the BNB Chain track? Join the April 9 AMA with our BD + Tech team to get clarity before you apply 👇