The IQ Ecosystem Report for May is here. KRWQ expanded to Solana and brought institutional access to Korean won liquidity through Fireblocks via Base. Alongside this growth, KRWQ continued gaining visibility across Korean stablecoin research, policy discussions, and institutional FX coverage, including 4Pillars and the South Korean stablecoin policy forum. Meanwhile, AIDEN and IQ.wiki continued scaling integrations across Web3 communities and project knowledge bases.
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KRWQ, the Korean Won Stablecoin, is Expanding to Solana Unifying $100B+ in Daily KRW Liquidity Onchain
KRWQ expanded to Solana, unifying $100B+ in daily KRW liquidity onchain. The move positions KRWQ as a KRW settlement asset for Solana-based markets, including KRW-denominated perpetual futures, onchain FX, cross-margin trading between KRW and USD stablecoins, and institutional trading systems.
This expansion is especially important because the Korean won remains one of the largest opportunities in global FX, with KRWQ’s source material pointing to roughly $40 billion in daily spot volume and around $60 billion in offshore NDF activity. Despite that scale, Korean won exposure has remained underrepresented in crypto-native infrastructure, creating a clear opening for KRWQ to serve as an onchain settlement layer for won-denominated markets.
By moving onto Solana, KRWQ adds another high-performance venue to its growing network of institutional and onchain integrations. Together with its EDX spot and perpetual markets presence, Polygon FX pools, and Fireblocks availability via Base, KRWQ is building toward a more globally accessible, continuously traded Korean won market. More info is available in a dedicated blog post.
KRWQ Now Available on Fireblocks via Base, Expanding Institutional Access to Korean Won Markets
KRWQ is now available on Fireblocks via Base, expanding institutional access to Korean won liquidity across one of the most widely used enterprise digital asset platforms. Fireblocks supports secure custody, settlement, trading operations, and stablecoin payments, giving institutions a more direct way to custody and transfer KRWQ within existing trading and treasury workflows.
This matters because KRWQ is being built for the offshore Korean won NDF and spot markets, where access has historically depended on fragmented legacy FX infrastructure. By becoming available through Fireblocks’ Base support, KRWQ can now reach Fireblocks’ network of fintechs, retail apps, PSPs, banks, exchanges, and institutional traders, reducing onboarding friction for firms that want Korean won-denominated digital asset exposure.
With support for use cases including exchange settlement, market making, treasury management, cross-border payments, and onchain trading strategies, KRWQ’s Fireblocks availability strengthens its role as institutional infrastructure for KRW liquidity. The launch also builds on KRWQ’s broader market structure across EDX spot trading and EDXM International perpetual futures, giving institutions more ways to integrate Korean won exposure into onchain finance. Learn more on our blog.
KRWQ at EWHA Seminar
KRWQ’s education and community presence also expanded through the seminar, organized by EwhaChain together with IQ, Frax, and Tiger Research, where the project’s broader thesis around Korean won stablecoins, onchain FX, and institutional KRW liquidity was introduced to a university blockchain audience.
The seminar helped bring KRWQ’s market-structure narrative into the Korean academic and builder communities, connecting its institutional use cases with the next generation of blockchain researchers, developers, and ecosystem participants.
Coverage
KRWQ Featured in 4Pillars/ASA Research
KRWQ was featured in 4Pillars/Asia Stablecoin Alliance’s ‘What’s Happening in Korea?’ (ASA News #18) as one of the key stablecoin developments in the Korean market. The report highlighted KRWQ’s listing on EDX Markets and EDXM International, framing it as the first Korean won stablecoin to launch an integrated spot and derivatives trading stack.
ASA also emphasized the significance of KRWQ’s non-USD structure. In a stablecoin market still dominated by dollar assets, KRWQ stands out as an early example of how major non-USD currencies can be represented onchain for real trading, hedging, and settlement use cases. This reinforces KRWQ’s role as a bridge between the Korean won, global digital asset liquidity, and the next generation of onchain FX markets. Read more about why IQ built KRWQ in our dedicated blog post.
KRWQ’s Vision Mentioned at South Korean Stablecoin Policy Forum
KRWQ was mentioned at South Korea’s “Policy Forum on the Expansion of Stablecoins and the Reorganization of the Financial System,” held at the National Assembly Members’ Office Building in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. Kim Tae-il, Director of the Digital Financial Crime Response Research Institute, pointed out, “The listing of KRWQ on the U.S. EDX signals that offshore-issued Korean Won stablecoins are already entering the realm of institutional investment.” He stated, “KRWQ has a vision to move the Korean Won NDF market, which authorities have long monitored, into the virtual asset sector,” adding, “Given the increasing sophistication of money laundering attempts using derivatives, it is necessary to impose similar levels of anti-money laundering obligations not only on domestically issued Korean Won stablecoins but also on offshore stablecoins pegged to domestic currencies.”
The coverage, photographed and reported by Edaily’s Seo Min-ji, placed KRWQ within a broader national conversation about how stablecoins could reshape financial markets and Korea’s position in global digital asset infrastructure.
CoinGecko’s Crypto Forks Guide Now Available in Korean through IQ’s Naver Blog
CoinGecko’s guide to Crypto Forks is now available in Korean through IQ’s Korean-language Naver blog. This continues IQ’s push to make leading crypto research more accessible to Korean readers and strengthen IQ.wiki’s role as a multilingual knowledge layer for Web3.
By bringing CoinGecko research into Korean, IQ.wiki helps connect global market education with local audiences, making complex crypto concepts easier to access through Korea’s dominant language and content ecosystem.
Partnerships
AIDEN Integrations
AIDEN continued expanding across Web3 communities with new integrations from SportixAI, Fintoq AI, NeuroMesh, Aurum, Runepool, Lumera, Swarmbase, Choice Markets, and Zypher.
These integrations show AIDEN’s growing role as an AI-powered support and onboarding layer for crypto projects. By embedding AIDEN into project communities, teams can give users faster access to documentation, product answers, and ecosystem knowledge directly inside their existing communication channels.
IQ.wiki Integrations
IQ.wiki also expanded its project coverage and UI integrations with Kraftera, BlockHub, 1024EX, Vara, DragonLabs, and Predom.
These integrations strengthen IQ.wiki’s position as a canonical knowledge base for Web3 projects, giving communities a persistent and searchable source of information beyond short-form announcements or social posts. For projects, IQ.wiki pages help convert ecosystem attention into durable, structured, and machine-readable knowledge.
