Korea is paying attention. Zenith Co-founder & CBO @HeslinKim sat down with Digital Asset Works after a private event in Seoul with 50 major Korean financial institutions alongside a16z and Tiger Research. Key takeaways from the interview: > Japanese financial institutions chose @CantonNetwork because global banks, regulators, and exchanges are already using it. Zenith was invited because we solved a very specific and necessary technical problem - EVM access to Canton - that no one else had. > Korean asset managers are studying tokenization of domestic assets for distribution to Latin American, African, and North American investors, connecting Korean assets to global DeFi yield > Korean banks' top priority: KRW stablecoins and cross-border settlement. Companies like Samsung and LG constantly pay SWIFT fees moving capital across global entities. Stablecoins eliminate that friction > "If Japan's government bonds were tokenized as a single asset, they could rival Bitcoin's market cap. And that's just one asset." The current crypto market FDV is ~$3.8T. Global financial capital markets are $100T, roughly 25-30x larger > The big picture: "In 10 years, today's top crypto assets could be completely replaced by tokenized real-world assets: JGBs, equities, corporate bonds" Full interview in Korean, worth running through a translator: Zth.