Upbit's trading volume surged 78.3% in the past 24 hours, with XRP, BTC, and WAL ranking as the top three by trading volume.

BlockBeats news, October 15th, according to Coingecko data, in the past 24 hours, the trading volume of South Korean crypto trading platform Upbit rose 78.3%, with trading volume surging to $1.21 billion, among which the XRP/KRW trading pair ranked first in the Korean won trading market with 11.1% of the trading volume, and the remaining top five were: BTC, WAL, ETH, USDT.

The South Korean KOSPI index closed down 454.54 points today, a decline of 7.56%, at 5,554.27 points. The country's stock market fell more than 9% during the session, triggering the circuit breaker mechanism for the tenth time this year.

South Korean financial regulators held an emergency meeting on the stock market in the afternoon, after which the decline in the stock market narrowed somewhat. SK Hynix initially closed down 11.06%, and Samsung Electronics fell 9.48%.