South Korea's largest crypto exchange adds the AI infrastructure token with BTC and USDT pairs, expanding OPG's reach into the Asian market
OpenGradient is getting the South Korean spotlight treatment. Upbit, the country’s dominant digital asset exchange, will begin trading OPG on June 15 with both BTC and USDT pairs, with trading set to go live at approximately 20:30 KST.
The listing marks another step in what’s been a rapid-fire exchange rollout for a project that only held its Token Generation Event back in April. For a token that already trades on Binance, Coinbase, Bybit, and HTX, the Upbit addition is less about legitimacy and more about geography.
What is OpenGradient, and why does it matter #
OpenGradient is a decentralized AI infrastructure network. It doesn’t run its own standalone blockchain. Instead, it functions as a coprocessor, using GPU and TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) nodes to handle demanding AI tasks on behalf of developers and blockchain projects, where the results can be verified on-chain.
The core technical innovation is what the team calls the Hybrid AI Compute Architecture, or HACA. It separates the execution of AI inference from the verification of that inference, allowing anyone using the network to confirm that the AI model actually produced the output it claims to have produced, without having to re-run the entire computation themselves.
OpenGradient positions itself as “the Network for Open Intelligence,” covering AI model hosting, agent deployment, and verifiable compute. The project raised $9.5 million in funding from backers that include a16z crypto and Coinbase Ventures.
Tokenomics and the exchange blitz #
The OPG token has a total supply of 1 billion. At launch, approximately 190 million tokens were in circulation. The allocation structure dedicates 40% of total supply to the ecosystem, with an airdrop of 4% of total supply — 40 million tokens — distributed to early participants and community members in April alongside the TGE.
Following the TGE, daily volumes reportedly reached tens to hundreds of millions of dollars across listed platforms. Deposits and withdrawals on Upbit will be conducted via the Base network, Coinbase’s Layer 2 chain.
What this means for investors #
With only 190 million of 1 billion tokens currently circulating, there’s substantial future dilution baked into the tokenomics. That 40% ecosystem allocation will eventually hit the market in some form, and investors should pay close attention to the vesting schedule and unlock timeline.
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