[Blockchain Today Reporter Han Ji-hye] Korea Digital Asset (CEO Moon Geon-ki, hereinafter KODA) has signed a bitcoin consignment contract with Wemade (CEO Jang Hyun-guk), a KOSDAQ listed company, and Wemade Tree (representatives Seok-Hwan Kim and Ho-eun Oh), a blockchain specialized subsidiary, respectively. It was revealed on the 17th.
KODA is a virtual asset consignment service company established by KB Kookmin Bank with the goal of acting as a so-called’digital bank’ with Hatch Labs, a blockchain technology company, and Hashed, a specialized blockchain investment company. Virtual asset consignment service is a service that allows customers to safely store and manage virtual assets, and KODA supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Clay as the first consignment assets. In the future, it plans to expand the service area to real-estate digital assets such as real estate, gold, and art, and NFTs.
Wemade continues to invest in virtual assets including bitcoin to expand the value of cash equivalents and to invest in the future, and through its subsidiary WeMade Tree, wemade a blockchain platform, WEMIX, a blockchain wallet and a decentralized exchange, a blockchain game, and It is actively promoting various blockchain businesses such as the NFT marketplace. Recently, it has reached 50,000 daily users within 4 months of launching the blockchain platform WeMix.
This announcement is the first customer case disclosed by KODA. KODA announced that it officially launched the service on the 3rd of this month, and attracted market attention in that a company invested in a domestic banking sector started the service for the first time. In the future, the three companies plan to actively cooperate across the blockchain industry, including the management and management of various virtual assets in addition to Bitcoin. As companies specialized in blockchain and virtual assets join hands, synergy is expected.
Wemade CEO Jang Hyeon-guk said, “Virtual asset is an important axis of WeMade’s business, and a trustworthy consignment service is essential to WeMade, which is actively investing in various virtual assets including bitcoin. Upon hearing the news of KODA’s consignment service launch, it decided to become KODA’s first customer without hesitation. In the future, we will continue to expand cooperation in various fields with KODA.”
KODA CEO Moon-Ki also said, “I am pleased to be a trust partner of Wemade and Wemade Tree, which are actively engaged in virtual asset business including NFT through the combination of games and block chains.” “Korea’s listed corporation is a bitcoin trust partner. It is meaningful in that it has been selected.” “KODA will provide all the financial infrastructure necessary for corporations to handle virtual assets,” he added.
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