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Seoul Pauses the Bridge: Bithumb Halts Ronin Flows Ahead of L2 Migration

5/8/2026

Seoul Pauses the Bridge: Bithumb Halts Ronin Flows Ahead of L2 Migration HONG KONG — South Korea's Bithumb has frozen deposits and withdrawals on Ronin (RON), the venue announced, with the window opening 9:00 a.m.

UTC on May 11 and remaining shut until engineers can confirm a clean handover to the project's new layer-two stack.

Trading pairs will keep quoting through the gap, but no token will move on or off the venue until the migration settles.

For an Asia-Pacific market in which gaming-token rails have always been more than a niche, the pause is more than housekeeping.

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