The Financial Supervisory Service will secure additional Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) this year to strengthen the functions of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform dedicated to investigating unfair virtual asset transactions. The Financial Supervisory Service plans to enhance its response capabilities by reinforcing AI functions to detect accounts suspected of being used for price rigging.
According to the financial authorities on the 16th, the Financial Supervisory Service secured a budget of 170 million won this year to expand internal servers. With this, it plans to purchase one additional H100, Nvidia's high‑performance computing GPU, by the second quarter of this year. Released in 2022, the H100 is not the latest model, but it is among the most widely used GPUs for AI training.
Last year, the Financial Supervisory Service secured a server expansion budget of 220 million won and purchased two H100 units. Through this, it upgraded VISTA, an AI platform dedicated to investigating unfair virtual asset transactions that it built in 2024. The Financial Supervisory Service is also focusing on strengthening VISTA's functions this year.
The Financial Supervisory Service is using VISTA to examine virtual asset transaction trends and detect sections suspected of price rigging. The agency said it can immediately detect everything from the number of price‑rigging instances to their duration. This year, it aims to enhance the functions to identify accounts suspected of being used for organized price rigging. It also plans to develop a large language model (LLM) capable of analyzing messages that collude in unfair transactions of virtual assets.
The Financial Supervisory Service is also reviewing a plan to build a separate AI system that can check virtual asset market trends in real time and identify signs of abnormal transactions. If abnormal signs are detected, such as a sudden surge or plunge in the prices of major virtual assets, the AI would flag them. Once this system is in place, it is expected to quickly verify whether abnormal transactions occurred at a specific exchange due to a computer error, among other causes. For now, it is known that the agency receives virtual asset market trend data about once a day.
The Financial Supervisory Service is moving to bolster AI as suspicious virtual asset transactions have been increasing recently. According to the Financial Services Commission (FSC), reports of suspicious virtual asset transactions totaled 1,333,391 last year, up 23% from the previous year. As digital transaction methods proliferate, it is becoming increasingly difficult for people to manually track the flow of funds.
An official at the Financial Supervisory Service said, "If we determine that further strengthening of AI functions is necessary, we plan to pursue additional GPU procurement."