South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) is intensifying its crackdown on crypto market manipulation by upgrading its AI-powered surveillance system, VISTA. The agency has deployed an automated detection algorithm that can identify price manipulation scenarios without human input. A budget of $116,000 has been secured for 2026 to further enhance VISTA’s capabilities, shifting enforcement toward a more data-driven, anticipatory model.
South Korea’s financial regulatory authority, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has intensified its surveillance of the digital asset market through increased use of artificial intelligence. The FSS has upgraded its Virtual Assets Intelligence System for Trading Analysis (VISTA) by adding an automated detection algorithm.
The new algorithm uses a sliding window grid search technique to identify potential manipulation windows within trading data. This method proved highly efficient by detecting all previously known manipulation periods and flagging others that were hard to spot.
The FSS has secured a budget of $116,000 for 2026 to upgrade VISTA’s functionalities with advanced tools. These will include automated detection of coordinated trading networks and analysis of abnormal trading patterns across thousands of crypto assets.
This expansion marks a significant shift toward automated, data-driven enforcement in South Korea’s digital asset markets. The update aims to enable regulators to anticipate manipulators’ tactics for a safer ecosystem.
