South Korea’s Upbit Lists WCT, SHELL and DEEP Today

Key Points

• Upbit lists WCT, supporting KRW, BTC, and USDT markets.
• The exchange will launch BTC and USDT pairs for SHELL and DEEP.
• The coins’ prices surged following the announcement.

The biggest crypto exchange in South Korea, Upbit, lists three digital assets today:

1. WalletConnect (WCT) – A core protocol in Web3 infrastructure with a secure relay system that allows millions of users to connect wallets to Dapps via QR codes and deep linking
2. MyShell (SHELL) – An AI consumer layer for people to build, share, and own AI agents
3. DeepBook (DEEP) – A decentralized central limit order book (CLOB) built on the Sui network

Upbit’s Listing Details

Upbit announced the listing of WCT, supporting the KRW, BTC, and USDT markets. The trading pairs will be launched on Optimism.

The crypto exchange revealed in a separate announcement that it will list SHELL and DEEP, supporting the BTC and USDT markets. DEEP will be launched on the Sui network, and SHELL will launch on Ethereum.

The three coins experienced price spikes following the crypto exchange’s announcement.

WCT, SHELL, and DEEP Prices Surged

WCT Price Trajectory

WCT was trading at $0.32 with a market cap of $60 million ahead of Upbit’s announcement. The coin’s price spiked by over 55% following the exchange’s notes, hitting a top above $0.52 and a market cap of over $98 million, nearing its ATH.

The coin is up by more than 27% in the past 24 hours.

Binance listed WCT with Seed Tag on April 15, supporting the USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD, and TRY markets, after launching the project on Launchpool.

SHELL Price Trajectory

Earlier, SHELL was trading above $0.11, with a market cap of over $32 million, and its price spiked above $0.13, hitting a market cap of over $37 million, following Upbit’s listing announcement.

The coin recorded a price spike of almost 13%, and it’s up by more than 19% in the past 24 hours.

DEEP Price Trajectory

Earlier, DEEP’s market cap was approximately $252 million, and it spiked above $267 million, seeing a surge of over 4.5%, before correcting to current levels.

At the moment of writing this article, DEEP is trading above $0.08, with a market cap of over $256 million.

The coin is up by more than 7% in the past 24 hours.