Gameville announced on the 19th that it is making a strategic investment in’Coin One’, one of the three major virtual asset exchanges in Korea.
This investment was made by acquiring 13% of Coinone’s old stocks, and the total investment is 31.2 billion won.
Coinone is a cryptocurrency brokerage company founded in 2014 by CEO Cha Myung-hoon, a white hacker former security expert.
Gameville said, “As a business holding company, we have made a strategic investment in Coinone to increase interest in blockchain technology and virtual asset platforms at the enterprise level including Com2us and its affiliates, and to explore new business opportunities.”
Meanwhile, the game industry and the blockchain and virtual asset industries are constantly expanding their contact points. Recently, the popularity of’NBA Topshot’, which sells NFT (non-replaceable token) cards containing actual game scenes of NBA star players, is proving the effectiveness of blockchain technology in the global game market.
