Korea Blockchain Week, Aug. 9: Second-day takeaways from the Cointelegraph team
Discussions about the Metaverse dominated the final day of Korea Blockchain Week’s mainstage conference. Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) 2022 wrapped up its two-day mainstage events this evening, which again saw a number of influential speakers take to the podium including Janine Yorio of Everyrealm, Yat Siu of Animoca Brands and Sky Mavis’ Jeffrey Zirlin.Held at the Grand Intercontinental Seoul Parnas, the second-day conference saw thousands of attendees engaged across three conference tracks — Stage Seoul, Stage Busan and Stage Jeju. The majority of the discussions on the second day focused....
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The first day of the main stage event included a keynote presentation from Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin, 1inch Network's Sergej Kunz, and Klaytn Foundation’s Sam Seo. The fifth annual Korea Blockchain Week kicked off on Sunday, with more than 7,000 people attending Asia’s largest blockchain event of 2022. The Seoul-based event is set to run its main-stage sessions on Aug. 8 and 9, while side events such as music festivals and nonfungible token (NFT) art galleries will go through until Aug. 12. This year Korea Blockchain Week features presentations from more than 120 figures in the blockchain....
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PRESS RELEASE. SEOUL – Iskra took the stage at Korea Blockchain Week, outlining their vision of game publishing in the era of Web3. “The technology is now available for us to provide an ecosystem that enables better outcomes for everyone: players, game developers and the platform itself. There is now an opportunity for every stakeholder (especially players) to share in the overall value created by the game experience: from digital asset ownership, fandom development, to overall community participation.”, explains Ben Colayco, Iskra’s Global Managing....
The Korea Exchange (KRX), South Korea’s sole securities exchange operator, has launched a new service in which equity shares of startup companies can be traded on the open market. Called the Korea Startup Market (KSM), the service is being provided in partnership with Blocko, a Korean blockchain startup that has produced a blockchain-as-a-service platform called Coinstack. The Coinstack platform will provide document and authentication services for the KSM by checking against client references that have already been provided to the system by Korean banks like JB Bank, KISA, Lottecard,....