Upbit, the dominant crypto exchange in South Korea, moved fast on September 8, 2026, adding three new tokens to its platform in a single day: Cluster Protocol’s CP, the Hemi network’s HEMI, and meme token USELESS.
CP trading kicked off first, going live around 8:30 AM KST with three pairs: CP/KRW, CP/BTC, and CP/USDT. Bithumb, South Korea’s second-largest exchange, added its own CP/KRW support later the same day. HEMI and USELESS followed in the evening, with BTC and USDT pairs for both going live at 9:30 PM KST.
What each token actually does
Cluster Protocol sits squarely in the AI-infrastructure corner of crypto. Its CP token has a fixed maximum supply of 5 billion, with roughly 1.37 billion tokens, about 27.38% of the total, in circulation at launch. The token is designed to settle payments for AI inference calls and GPU compute jobs, functioning as the billing layer for a decentralized AI compute network.
HEMI is the native token of the Hemi network, an Ethereum-compatible Layer 2 that launched its mainnet in March 2025. With a maximum supply of 10 billion tokens, HEMI handles transaction fees and governance on the network. Hemi was co-founded by notable figures including former Bitcoin Core developer Jeff Garzik, and is designed to merge the programmability of Ethereum with Bitcoin’s security through its Proof-of-Proof consensus mechanism.
