Korea Blockchain Week 2023
2023-09-04..2023-09-10
Seoul, South Korea
[Korea Blockchain Week 2023, Korea Blockchain Week 2024, Korea Blockchain Week 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Mega-Ecosystem Wemix: Beyond Games | Henry Chang | 30m |
Wemix launches a playable stack: Wemix 3.0 mainnet (40 nodes, ~13th by wallets), a gaming-first chain with 30+ live games and Mir4 generating over $100M… | ||
| Bridging the Gap: Onboarding Strategies for Web2 to Web3 | Mo Shaikh, Greg Reed | 23m |
Aptos claims a production layer‑one that launched October 2022 and already ships 47 protocol upgrades, uses the Move smart‑contract language, and sustains… | ||
| Asia's Rise, Milestones, and Innovations | Justin Sun, Ronnie Levi | 32m |
Tron reports $12 billion daily USDT volume and claims about $400 million daily revenue, saying that surpasses Bitcoin revenue this year; Tron states 2 million… | ||
| Leading the Future: Korea’s Role & Opportunities in Blockchain and Web3 | Simon Kim | 14m |
Wallet addresses grow steadily over the last decade even as prices fall, with developer signups and open‑source chain projects increasing; Asia holds 60% of… | ||
| Decoding the Final Play: Unveiling Maker DAO's End Game | Rune Christensen, Vance Spencer | 45m |
MakerDAO runs a $5.3 billion DAI stablecoin and claims ~+$800M growth last month, and Endgame introduces six subDAOs to onboard assets, target regions and take… | ||
| From Pixels to Narratives: Exploring the Impact of Storytelling and Community on Web3 | Daniel Alegre, Baek Kim | 30m |
Explains how seeding IP to a community turns a niche NFT into a global brand in weeks, not decades, citing a partnership roster (Gucci, Adidas), an acquisition… | ||
| Creating Sustainable Blockchain Game Economies | Hilmar V. Petursson, Sunyoung Hwang, Nathan Lee | 33m |
Claims that blockchain solves third‑party developer friction by making execution payable via API gateway moderation, and that the real innovation is turning… | ||
| Can Art Save the Blockchain? | Mikolaj Sekutowicz, Marc Spiegler, Nabyl Charania, Afrodet Zuri | 32m |
Shows a concrete model: a museum‑quality Rafik Anadol installation Sense of Healing pairs neuroscience big‑data visuals with an NFT that sold for 1.7 million… | ||
| Accelerating Blockchain Adoption from Media to Banking | Archie Ravishankar, Suk Hwan Paul Kim, Swan Sit | 32m |
A digital banking platform launches a non-custodial wallet bundled with an FDIC‑insured bank account and encodes KYC as a non‑transferable NFT so dApps skip… | ||
| Building with Money Lego Bricks | Jeremy Allaire, Francis Kang | 31m |
Company describes 10 years of progress: USDC launches in 2018, 70% of volume outside North America, about 120 employees in Asia, and recent native deployments… | ||
| Evolving of Crypto and Enterprise Adoption in Japan | Kaya Kawamori, Jangdeok Ko, Hosho Karasawa, Steve Lee | 33m |
Japan deregulates taxation on first‑party token issuances and large firms push production-ready projects: a $4 billion commitment funds wallet UX, exchange… | ||
| LayerZero: The De Facto Standard for Cross-Chain Messaging | Irene Wu | 29m |
LayerZero positions itself as the de facto cross-chain messaging layer: it claims to have secured $30B+ of value, to be deployed on 40+ EVM and non‑EVM chains… | ||
| A New Global IP Infrastructure in the Age of Generative AI: Git for IP | Robin Guo, Seung Yoon Lee | 31m |
Builds a blockchain-backed Git for IP that stores rich narrative units (characters, relations, story arcs) plus modular rules for remix and payout, aiming to… | ||
| Opening a New Era of POS: Liquid Staking | Isidoros Passadis, Mara Schmiedt, Viktor Bunin | 31m |
Liquid staking issues, designs and deployments: Lido controls about 33% of staked ETH, runs a permissioned operator set of 31 operators, and ships Lido V2… | ||
| The Promise of Metaverse and Digital Property: A New Era of Innovation | Sebastien Borget, Alan Lau, Bryan Myint, Edward Tan | 31m |
Claims concrete wins: a no-code 3D editor and game-maker that already powers 40 million downloads and 70 million player-made creations; virtual land (166,164… | ||
| Bitcoin Ordinals Odyssey: Navigating Controversy, Embracing Prominence | Dan Held, Eric Wall, Trevor Owens | 31m |
Panel argues ordinals serialize entire files onto Bitcoin, creating on‑chain assets rather than off‑chain links, and shows ordinals store full JPEG bytes… | ||
| The Future of Institutional Custody in Crypto: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities | Mike Belshe | 24m |
Custody needs separation from trading and BitGo claims to have built the plumbing: an internal Go Network that does atomic DVP-style settlement and integrates… | ||
| Redefining Social Networking with Decentralization | Wilson Wei, Joon lan Wong | 31m |
Claims a working decentralized social account layer called CyberConnect that lets users own their data and social graph via an embedded account + abstract… | ||
| The Road Ahead for Cryptocurrency: Opportunities and Challenges | Anthony Scaramucci, Francis Kang | 30m |
Claims a BlackRock Bitcoin ETF is a tipping point for institutional adoption, and SkyBridge allocated one third of assets to crypto (peaked ~50%, now ~30%)… | ||
| Regime Change, Macro for 2H23 | Arthur Hayes | 29m |
Claims that the bull market begins on March 10, 2023 bailout after SVB/Signature, backed by a 35% crypto rise; uses Fed balance-sheet vs Bitcoin charts and an… | ||
| Bringing Web3 Tech to Web2 Enterprises | Michael Blank, Sandeep Nailwal, Adam Goldberg | 31m |
Polygon is pitching concrete moves not slogans: dozens of Korean deals with SK Telecom, Nexon, Starbucks and Reddit and work on loyalty/NFTs prove adoption… | ||
| NFT Creator Royalties: Redefining Ownership and Value in the Digital Art Space | Farokh Sarmad, Frank DeGods, Joonmo Kwon | 30m |
Panelists argue creator royalties work but variability (0–25% in examples) breaks markets and drives a leaky bucket of users; marketplaces report daily NFT… | ||
| CCIP: Connecting The Dots Between Blockchain and The Real World | Sergey Nazarov | 29m |
Chainlink’s CCIP expands the existing oracle security model to CCIP bridges that aim to remove single‑key centralization, already backing networks that… | ||
| ZK Stack and the Rise of the Rollup-State | Marco Cora, Lasse Clausen | 31m |
ZK Sync Era runs about 29 million transactions a month, claims ~43% of L2 daily active addresses, and achieves EVM compatibility years earlier than expected. A… | ||
| Rollup Rewound: Reflections on the Past, Visions of the Future | Ed Felten | 31m |
Princeton student work in 2014 leads to an Arbitrum prototype, a 2018 uNet/Usenix paper, and a product built on the rollup-centric roadmap; deployed Arbitrum… | ||
| From Concept to Reality: Modular Blockchain Architecture | Nick White, Maria Shen | 30m |
Celestia claims a modular stack that separates data availability sampling from execution so rollups verify a million transactions by checking a single proof… | ||
| Exploring Ethereum's Role in Shaping the Future of Blockchain | Jeremy Millar, Jacquelyn Melinek | 29m |
Consensys argues that volumes on L2s already exceed L1 and reports active work on MetaMask + Infura + Linea plus app chains and EVM-compatible L2 tooling… | ||
| Driving Blockchain Adoption in South East Asia | Thanh Le, Giang Tran, Edison Lim, David Toh | 31m |
Payment rails, chains and wallets talk concrete wins: a Visa-backed crypto debit card goes live, wins 1,000+ signups and posts 35% weekly growth with… | ||
| Web3 Odyssey: Navigating Mass Adoption into the Metaverse | Kima Kim | 27m |
Caliverse presents a metaverse that aims to turn shopping, concerts and communities into interoperable, rewarded experiences by shipping photorealistic digital… | ||
| Breaking Boundaries: The Impact of Bitcoin Layer 2 | Muneeb Ali | 30m |
Stacks launches a programmable Bitcoin L2 that settles to Bitcoin L1 and aims for 100% Bitcoin mining hash power security, paying actual BTC rewards to… | ||
| Wallet, the Key to Mass Adoption | Eowyn Chen, Pascal Gauthier, Nu Dao | 35m |
Wallets claim to be the bridge to self‑custody and web access: a mobile app reports 17 million downloads and 12 million monthly active users plus a browser… | ||
| The Future of zkEVM, Why it needs time to Evolve | Sandy Peng, David Schwartz, Luke Pearson | 34m |
Two teams report shipping ZK-EVM mainnets and testnets with measurable traction and growing costs and complexity: 400,000 unique addresses, 700,000 proofs and… | ||
| Cryptocurrency Adoption in Japan: Trends and Predictions | Akio Tanaka, Ryo Matsubara, Tatsuya Hashimoto, Lloyd Lee | 31m |
Japan positions web3 as a national economic priority with a government Web3 task force and FSA team, legalized three stablecoin types and enforces segregated… | ||
| Shared Sequencing, the Next Step toward Decentralizing Rollups | Charles Lu, Lisa Cuesta Bunin, AJ Park | 31m |
Explains a working prototype of a shared sequencer built on a new Hot Shot consensus that targets tens of thousands of nodes and «optimistic responsiveness»… | ||
| Bringing Privacy to Public Blockchain | Alex Pruden, Awa Sun Yin, Daniel Hwang | 30m |
Panel claims a concrete path to usable privacy: Namada builds a multi-asset shield pool so all tokens and NFTs share one anonymity set, preserving existing… | ||
| How Developer Tooling Shapes Landscape | Paul Kim, Chi Zhang, Timmy Han | 29m |
ZettaBlock builds a fully managed full-stack data infra that handles indexing, analytics and real-time feeds as a single backend for dApps; Notifi provides… | ||
| Building Tomorrow's Backbone: The Rise of Decentralized Infrastructure | Hilmar Ort, Eric Wang, Augustus llag | 28m |
Panelists describe concrete infrastructure work: Gelato Network runs a decentralized automation layer serving about 400 projects, enabling gasless and… | ||
| Hiring and Building a Web3 Native Team for Scaling | Cooper Scanlon, Dan Eskow | 34m |
A recruiter-first approach hires partners, not employees, for a flat, family-style startup that ships Move blockchain environments to other chains to solve the… | ||
| Specialize or Die: Why Generalized L1s are Weak | Scott Sunarto, Smokey the Bera | 30m |
Argument: generalized L1s lose to focused platforms. One team built a games-only rollup and a wallet model using gamer-tag identity so full games run entirely… | ||
| The Quest for Seamless Gaming: Triumphing Over Blockchain Game Infra Challenges | Akshay Malhotra, Richard Kim | 29m |
Argues blockchain is a useful tool for open-economy games but not a silver bullet, and narrows winning genres to skill‑based betting, creator-driven worlds… | ||
| Onboarding the Next Billion Web3 Users: Games and Onchain Summer | Ben Colayco, Giuliano Octavianos, Jadey Li | 22m |
Partnership between Base and Iskra runs an Onchain Summer campaign to drive real on‑chain activity: Base layer 2 on OP Stack launches five weeks ago, aims for… | ||
| Bits & Blocks: The Fusion of Gaming and Blockchain | Jamie Thomson, David S. Bennahum, Joseph Lloyd | 30m |
Ready.gg offers a layer three service that onboards web2 studios and claims 16 signed partners covering ~2,000 games and ~250 million web2 MAU, projecting 10… | ||
| Scaling Ethereum and Real-World Adoption of Web3 | RENE REINSBERG, Hope Lee | 25m |
Celo reports almost 300 million transactions on its public chain and over 10,000 projects in 150 countries, with Google Cloud now running validators — the… | ||
| The Disruptive Potential of Blockchain in the Gaming Industry | Han Yoo, Tin Nguyen, Kyu C. Lee, Kijun Seo | 31m |
Panel argues blockchain delivers real item ownership, traceability and tradeability, not just buzz, and shows how teams actually build for that: an MMO with… | ||
| Overcoming the Hurdles: Addressing Pain Points in Web3 Adoption | Jae Min Jin, Seong Lee, Sam Reynolds | 29m |
Panelists argue adoption hinges on concrete fixes: merchant-friendly onboarding (wallets hidden behind existing logins), wallets-as-a-service SDKs that handle… | ||
| Global Institutional Adoption of Digital Assets | Maneul Nordeste, Raagulan Pathy, Jonathan Rhee, Sylvia To | 31m |
Panelists cite a yearly survey of over 1,000 institutional investors showing current adoption around 67–68% and future intent at ~80%, note the crypto… | ||
| Polkadot Deep Dive: The Blockspace Ecosystem for Boundless Innovation | Bjorn Wagner, Hoon Kim | 32m |
Polkadot positions itself as a marketplace for blockspace that sells shared security umbrella and cross-chain composability: Substrate-built parachains connect… | ||
| Exploring the Richness of Korean AAA Blockchain Gaming | Jake Moon, Bryan Song, Jose Ko, Dan Lee | 33m |
Panel details concrete builds and problems: Leo Kingdoms runs for 3 years as a live Web3 game, a studio operates a private chain plus DEX/marketplace, and a… | ||
| Regulatory Landscape from US to Asia | Carole House, Emily Parker, Zack Seward | 31m |
Asia sends a clear welcome to crypto: Japan passed a stablecoin law and Hong Kong unveils an exchange licensing regime, while MiCA creates a registration… | ||
| Institutional Integration: Bridging Traditional Finance to Crypto | Joonkee Hong, Eva Lawrence, Joshua Lim, Diana Biggs | 31m |
Discussion reports institutions moving from research to execution: custody and spot ETF filings are live, OTC desks are hedging fiat gaps, and firms build… | ||
| The Blockchain Playground: Past Lessons and Future Visions in Gaming | Yawn Rong, Kay Yoo, Bailey Tan, Sebastian Park | 26m |
Panelists lay out concrete moves: Ronin adds on‑chain badges and cross‑game experience points to route users between titles; a new onboarding trick burns GST… | ||
| LSDfi as a New DeFi Primitive | Seongyun Ko, Guy Young, Amitej Gajjala, Matthias Ang | 33m |
Liquid staking removes validator hardware, software and 32 ETH capital barriers so anyone can stake and still use tokens in DeFi; on-chain ETH staking yields… | ||
| Crypto Exchanges Unbound: Navigating Regulatory Challenges and Growth | Eric Anziani, Ronnie Levi | 31m |
Crypto.com reports holding VASP and EA registrations in South Korea, running an 80 million users platform and the world’s largest crypto card program; it… | ||
| The Institutionalization of DeFi: Bridging the Gap Between Traditional Finance and Crypto | Sidney Powell, Stephen Richardson, Kelvin Koh | 31m |
Panelists report concrete traction: Maple shows $2.2 billion in origination since May 2021 and runs tokenized T‑bills, trading‑firm loans and real‑world… | ||
| India as a Developer Powerhouse | Aniket Jindal, Arjun Kalsy, Ramani Ramachandran, Shubham Jain | 29m |
India claims a huge developer base driven by STEM education, cheap mobile data and hacker culture, with Electric Capital ranking India #4 in web3 developers… | ||
| DeFi Needs Backup Plan | Dan Thomson, Andrey Belyakov, Jacob Ko | 30m |
DeFi suffers big losses — $3.8B in hacks in 2022 and ~$700M so far in 2023 — so protocols add financial defenses: decentralized derivatives via Opium Protocol… | ||
| Wallets Need to be Smarter | Clarisse Hagege, Zhen Yu Yong, Konstantin Richter, Geon Gi Moon, Alex Lim | 32m |
Panel argues wallets must stop being vague and deliver measurable fixes: use MPC and account abstraction to cut key loss (study cited: ~20% of Bitcoin… | ||
| Web3 for 1 billion users | Woo Suk Kim | 29m |
Claims that mainstream growth needs dropping the “Web3” label and treating blockchain as a backend business tool, not a niche ecosystem; cites Morgan Stanley’s… | ||
| MOVE, Enabling the Next Object Based Blockchains | Adenivi Abiodun, Sam Benyakoub | 25m |
An object-based blockchain where compute units are strongly typed Move objects with ownership baked into each object, reducing boilerplate and attack surface… | ||
| Strategic Moves: Navigating the Crypto Market for Optimal Strategy | Yong Jin Kim, Janson Wang, Cole Kennelly, Karen Tang | 30m |
Panelists give concrete signals: decentralized options product claims 8–60%+ APY and reports $300M trading volume across Ethereum, Arbitrum and Solana; an… | ||
| Beyond Traditional Investments: Unpacking Security Token Potential and Overcoming the Hurdles | Itai Avneri | 28m |
INX raises $84M from about 7,200 retail investors across 73 countries using an SEC-registered security token with a 470‑page F‑1 prospectus, issued on Ethereum… | ||
| The Institutionalization of the Crypto Industry | Alex Krüger, Dina Tsarapkina, Sam Kim, Sang Lee | 30m |
Panel claims the market is driven almost entirely by futures flows with negligible spot inflows, making price moves a leveraged retail liquidation game, and… | ||
| Disclosures and Regulatory Framework for WEB3 Companies | Yam Ki Chan, Alejandro Vargas, Medha Srivastava | 32m |
Argues disclosure means sharing all material facts and gives concrete practices: USDC keeps most fiat in a BlackRock‑managed, SEC‑registered fund with a public… | ||
| What Will the NextGeneration of Crypto Killer Apps Look Like? | Jordi Alexander, John Park | 28m |
A new Layer 2 positions itself as a modular chain focused on security, liquidity and UX rather than raw ZK tech, using EigenDA for data availability and… | ||
| Reaching 1 BillionUsers in Web3 | John Nahas, Hogun Lee | 28m |
Avalanche argues a path to a billion users by breaking the chain into an X/P/C multi-chain architecture and letting organizations run custom subnets for… | ||
| Introducing Kroma: Road to EVM-Equivalent ZK Rollup | TK Park | 14m |
Mainnet launches yesterday for Kroma, an OP Stack Layer 2 that starts as an optimistic rollup with a GKP-based challenge system and plans a phase two upgrade… | ||
| SportFi and the Web3 Future of Fandom | Alexandre Dreyfus, Alessandro Del Piero, A-Young Shin | 34m |
Keynote + Fireside: SportFi and the Web3 Future of Fandom
Speakers:
Alexandre Dreyfus, CEO @ Chiliz
Alessandro Del Piero, Football Legend
A-Young Shin… | ||
| DVT, Empowering POS Decentralization | Collin Myers, John Park | 29m |
Distributed Validator Technology lets operators run an Ethereum validator across multiple machines so no single operator can unilaterally slash or cause… | ||
| Going Beyond Swaps: Orderbook DEX and Price Execution | Charles d'Haussy, Ran Vi, Ryan Kim | 31m |
dYdX reports $1 trillion trading volume and is migrating its exchange to Cosmos with a v4 testnet that accepts MetaMask and focuses on derivatives execution… | ||
| IP Expansion through Blockchain Infrastructure | TJ Kawamura, Carlos Pereira, Andy Albertson, Yonatan H. Hagos | 30m |
Panel argues that tokenized IP and tokenized IP can give creators real property rights but raise enforceability and royalty-collection problems, and that NFTs… | ||
| Early Stage Investing in Asia | Ciara Sun, Gabriel Yang, Sharvin Baindur, House L | 31m |
Panelists lay out concrete bets and results: a $100M early-stage fund raised last year, an NFT marketplace that pulls $180M revenue, backing of 30+ funds and a… | ||
| Decentralizing Possibilities: Exploring Blockchain's Role in IP Expansion | Luca Schnetzler, Tristan Yver | 29m |
Buy of Pudgy Penguins for $2.5M leads to a product-first pivot: a custody solution and a gasless sign-up flow where a toy’s QR code mints wearable NFTs… | ||
| The Last Frontier Market: How Africa Can Bring the Next Billion Users | Yoseph Ayele, James Zhang, Songyi Lee | 28m |
Panel argues Africa needs infra and hardware to convert mobile users into crypto users, not just hype: companies launch a $99 00 web3 phone with preinstalled… | ||
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