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2025

September

  • Training to enhance military investigators’ virtual asset crime tracing and investigation capabilities Inter-agency training
  • Roundtable between the Commissioner of the Korea Customs Service and virtual asset service providers
  • Enacted the Guidelines for Virtual Asset Service Providers’ Credit Offering Practice Self-regulation
  • Launch of the Digital Asset Market Research Group and publication of the inaugural report *In collaboration with the Korea Capital Market Institute
  • Public fee comparison Self-regulation
  • Training for university students on virtual asset basics and domestic and overseas trends Public education
  • Stablecoin lecture for Customs Service employees Inter-agency training
  • Roundtable between the Governor of the Financial Supervisory Service and virtual asset service providers
  • Roundtable to enhance compliance with the prohibition of transactions with unreported virtual asset service providers

July

  • Training to enhance market monitoring capability Service provider training
  • Training to enhance the Coast Guard’s virtual asset crime tracing and investigation capabilities Inter-agency training
  • 2025 joint summer conference (held jointly with the Digital Financial Law Forum and Blockchain Law Association)

June

  • Initiated disclosures of virtual asset service provider sales, virtual asset total market value rankings Self-regulation
  • Implemented the delayed withdrawal system Self-regulation
  • Donation coordinators at non-profit corporations Inter-agency training

May

  • Enacted the Guidelines for Non-Profit Corporations’ Sales of Virtual Assets Self-regulation
  • Enacted the Guidelines for Enhanced Corporate "Know Your Customer" Implementation Self-regulation
  • All DAXA corporate members join the Financial Security Institute
  • Virtual asset investment scam prevention training for seniors in the Mapo area community centers Public education
  • Enacted the Best Practices for IT System Operation and User Protection Self-regulation

April

  • Published the 2025 Digital Asset Policy Sourcebook

March

  • Virtual asset investment scam prevention training for seniors in the Gangnam area community centers Public education
  • Virtual asset investment scam prevention training for seniors in the Nowon area community centers Public education

January

  • Inauguration of the second DAXA Chair (Se-jin Oh, CEO of Korbit)

2024

November

  • Enacted the Best Practices for Calculating User Deposit Rates Self-regulation
  • Public comparison of deposit rates Self-regulation
  • Participated in the World Investor Week campaign – Virtual asset-linked investment scam prevention training for financially vulnerable seniors *In collaboration with FSS

September

  • Investment in the Digital Asset Protection Foundation
  • Enacted the Best Practices for Virtual Asset Wallet Operation and Administration Self-regulation

August

  • Investment scam prevention training for military personnel Public education

July

  • Enacted the Best Practices for Listing Virtual Assets Self-regulation
  • Enacted the Best Practices for Continuous Monitoring of Suspicious Transactions Self-regulation
  • Enacted the Virtual Asset Service Provider Advertising Code of PracticeSelf-regulation

June

  • Training on virtual asset market monitoring practice (Session 1) Service provider training
  • Training on virtual asset market monitoring practice (Session 2) Service provider training
  • Changes in the landscape and AML practice following the enforcement of the Act on the Protection of Virtual Asset Users Service provider training

April

  • Supreme Prosecutors’ Office investigators Inter-agency training
  • Published Virtual Asset-Linked Investment Scam Case Studies *In collaboration with FSS

March

  • Roundtable between the Commissioner of the Korea Customs Service and virtual asset service providers

February

  • Roundtable between the Minister of Personnel Management and virtual asset service providers
  • Briefing on the abnormal transactions monitoring system of the Act on the Protection of Virtual Asset Users Service provider training *In collaboration with FSS

2023

December

  • Initiated tip-offs of service providers unreported to FIU *In collaboration with FIU
  • Enacted the Compliance Manual for Virtual Asset Service Providers Self-regulation

October

  • Basics of Applying the Act on the Protection of Virtual Asset Users and Specified Financial Transaction Laws in Practice Service provider training

July

  • Implemented the virtual asset warning system Self-regulation

June

  • Enacted the Code of Practice for Internal Control Self-regulation
  • Enacted the Code of Ethics for Virtual Asset Service Providers Self-regulation

May

  • Enacted the Risk Indicators Categorized by Virtual Asset Type Service provider training
  • Opened the official DAXA website
  • Basics of Applying Specified Financial Transaction Laws in Practice Service provider training
  • Roundtable between the Chief Vice-Governor of the Financial Supervisory Service and virtual asset service providers

January

  • 2023 Digital Asset Self-Regulation Policy Symposium (held jointly with the Korean Economic Law Association)

2022

October

  • Enacted the Guidelines for Listing Virtual Assets Self-regulation

July

  • Founding of DAXA and inauguration of the first chair (Sirgoo Lee, CEO of Dunamu)

June

  • Conclusion of MOU to establish DAXA