ZEST and Bithumb’s KRW market listing: what the listing adds and what it means for traders.

ZEST and Bithumb’s KRW market listing: what the listing adds and what it means for traders.

Conclusion

ZEST is Zest Protocol’s native token. Bithumb announced a Korean won spot market on 12 October 2026, with trading scheduled for 14:00 KST and deposits and withdrawals expected within two hours of the notice. The new market adds direct KRW trading access; the announcement itself does not establish a change to ZEST’s token function or protocol.

What Zest does

Zest builds Bitcoin lending and DeFi products. Its official docs describe Bitcoin Collateral Vaults for borrowing against BTC held in a Bitcoin vault, plus lending, yield vaults and swaps on Stacks. The project calls ZEST its native token, and its May token-distribution announcement states a fixed supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens, allocated to community (27.83%), ecosystem development (24.82%), investors (22.35%) and team (25%). Zest docs · Zest token announcement

Listing details

Bithumb’s notice title says “제스트프로토콜(ZEST) 원화 마켓 추가,” meaning Zest Protocol (ZEST) is being added to the KRW market. A same-day listing message reports BNB Smart Chain as the supported network and a 262 KRW reference price. A listing tracker reports trading at 05:00 UTC, equivalent to 14:00 KST. Bithumb notice · listing details · trading-time report

Market context

Before the scheduled Bithumb opening, ZEST already had reported USDT spot markets on MEXC, Gate and KuCoin, as well as perpetual markets on Binance and Bybit. Quotes near 02:49 UTC were about $0.21 per token, with spot prices across the reported venues between $0.21426 and $0.21577. The KRW listing adds another centralized venue and a local fiat quote, but does not by itself show that demand, liquidity or price will rise. venue quotes

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