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AZTEC Soars About 80% After Upbit and Bithumb List KRW Pairs

KRW markets on the two dominant Korean exchanges drew retail inflows that widened a brief kimchi premium before arbitrage narrowed it.

Overview

  • AZTEC traded near $0.035 with a 24-hour gain of roughly 80–82%, according to CoinDesk and CoinJournal.
  • Upbit and Bithumb introduced Korean won trading, giving local buyers direct access without routing through USDT or BTC.
  • Crypto Briefing reported a move from about $0.019 to $0.037 and an estimated market cap rise to roughly $100 million from around $57 million.
  • Trading volumes jumped as retail investors rushed in, then momentum cooled by the Asian evening as price gaps compressed.
  • AZTEC is the native token of Aztec, an Ethereum privacy Layer 2 using zero-knowledge proofs, following initial Feb. 12 listings on exchanges including Coinbase, Kraken, Bybit, KuCoin and MEXC.