Ethereum (ETH) Korea One Genesis Opens Sep 29 in Seoul With Foundation on Roster

Ethereum Korea One Genesis

Ethereum (ETH) roadmap planning takes center stage in Seoul next week as Ethereum Korea One Genesis convenes on Sep 29, with its official event page confirming a 1:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. KST session at Informal Square in Seongsu-dong, open to anyone who completes pre-registration. According to DigitalAsset, the Korean digital-asset outlet that tracks the regional calendar, the agenda covers Ethereum's forthcoming upgrade and roadmap, post-quantum cryptography, validator economics, privacy, zero-knowledge proofs, account abstraction, Layer 2 scaling and on-chain AI agents. The Ethereum Foundation will be joined by representatives from Uniswap, Compound, Lido, Base, Optimism, Starkware and infrastructure operator DSRV.

Genesis is the public second day of the two-day Ethereum Korea One program. On Sep 28 at 4 p.m., day one runs as an institutional conference at Conrad Seoul in Yeouido, built around tokenization, stablecoins, real-world assets, custody, regulation and digital capital markets. Names on that roster include BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Securitize, Ondo Finance, KB Securities, DB Securities, Kyobo Securities, Hanwha Investment & Securities, DSRV and Lambda256 — a lineup that places the smart contract platform's institutional buildout squarely inside Korea's finance establishment.

The Genesis dates fall inside a dense week for the Korean Ethereum ecosystem. Upbit Institutional Summit 2026 runs invite-only at Grand Walkerhill on Sep 29, covering global policy shifts, institutional participation and stablecoins. The Global Web3 Developer Conference opens at the aT Center the same morning and runs through Sep 30, with speakers from Bithumb, Chainlink, MetaMask, Kakao Pay and Coinbase Institutional. Korea Blockchain Week 2026's main conference follows on Sep 30 to Oct 1, where Arthur Hayes, Joseph Lubin, Tom Lee and Jeff Yew headline sessions on stablecoins' entry into mainstream finance and global digital-asset rules — themes that land alongside the SEC staff's Sept 25 clarification that Ethereum staking receipt tokens are not securities.

CryptoPunks Lead NFT Rebound

Network-level sales data from CryptoSlam, captured Sep 26, shows seven-day NFT volume at roughly $55.51 million, up 57.17% from the prior week, with Ethereum leading every chain measured at $30.33 million — a 113.52% surge. Ethereum's 19,043 buyer addresses rose 40.61%, and the network's separately listed wash-trading volume of about $1.07 million is excluded from that total. Polygon placed second on $7.44 million (+6.66%), though its listed wash-trading figure of $18.50 million dwarfs its reported sales; Bitcoin NFT activity ranked third at $5.13 million (+18.33%) with buyer addresses up 45.89% to 7,938. Base followed at $3.30 million (+87.59%), with BNB Chain at $2.66 million, Immutable at $2.39 million and Solana at $2.03 million. The six leading chains together account for about $51.23 million of the global figure.

Participation broadened faster than raw transaction count. Buyer addresses climbed 39.65% to 160,565 and seller addresses rose 39.19% to 150,410, against a 5.93% rise in transactions to 825,513 — CryptoSlam counts addresses, so those figures do not equal unique traders. The rebound tracked gains in the two largest assets, with Ethereum trading near $2,686 (+2.70% over seven days) and Bitcoin near $83,914 (+3.60%) at the snapshot.

CryptoPunks, an Ethereum collection, topped the leaderboard at $8.24 million, up 1,066.53%, on 85 transactions (+844.44%) and 62 buyer addresses (+520%). Polygon's Courtyard ranked second at $6.56 million even as its transactions fell 7.54%, while Ethereum collection Credits placed third at $5.18 million. The week's largest single trade was Beezie #4365 on Base for $1 million in USDC, roughly 59% of that collection's $1.69 million weekly volume and about 1.8% of global sales. Two Bitcoin BRC-20 NFT sales at approximately $519,364 and $409,140, plus an Alchemix V3 Transmuter #229 sale for about $398,081 in 149.95 WETH, rounded out the top five. Readers tracking the market in real time can follow live spot and futures prices on Bybit.

The $2,799 Wall

COINOTAG's proprietary 42-indicator composite S/R scoring engine rates the $2,799 resistance at 88/100, driven by Bollinger Band upper, Donchian upper and swing-high confluence. Spot trades at $2,690.84, up 0.70% in 24 hours, just above the $2,681 support our engine scores at 86/100 (Flip R→S, S1, MACD cross). RSI prints 63.47 with a bullish MACD in an uptrend; funding of 0.0013%, $11.16 billion in open interest and a 1.52 long/short ratio signal mildly crowded longs, with Fear & Greed at 74 (Greed). A close above $2,700.65 keeps $2,799 in play; losing $2,681 puts the $2,567 support (79/100) on deck and invalidates the bullish thesis.