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Incheon Joins Hands with The Sandbox to Promote City in the MetaverseIncheon Metropolitan City is partnering with global metaverse platform The Sandbox to create innovative marketing content aimed at promoting its urban landscape within the virtual realm and establishing an overseas promotional network. This move makes it the first South Korean public institution to work with a metaverse platform.Photo by Jiho Choi on UnsplashThe Sandbox’s virtual worldBuilt on the Ethereum blockchain, The Sandbox enables users to employ non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for creating play-to-earn (P2E) games that can be monetized. The ecosystem’s utility token, SAND, facilitates this mechanism as it is used for in-game purchases. Currently, the platform boasts one of the highest cumulative NFT collection volumes among virtual world projects on the world’s largest NFT marketplace, OpenSea. It has also formed partnerships with over 400 entities around the world.City marketing strategyThrough this collaboration, Incheon plans to develop and introduce engaging content for users to experience the city virtually, such as a variety of events. Furthermore, the city also intends to utilize its intellectual property (IP) for activities such as NFT donation campaigns and metaverse creator training programs to implement extensive NFT content within The Sandbox’s virtual world.“We plan to continually develop content that enables people around the world to experience Incheon through our collaboration with the global metaverse platform,” said Lee Se-woong, Head of Incheon’s City Branding Division.

LINE NEXT Inc, a U.S.-based Web3 subsidiary of messaging app giant Line Corporation, has made a strategic partnership with ReadON, a global Web3 content provider running a “Read to Earn (R2E)” app called “ReadON DAO.” The service helps users develop routine reading habits by providing tokens as rewards. Photo by GuerrillaBuzz on UnsplashThis partnership will enable LINE NEXT to feature various digital products on its “DOSI,” a global digital commerce platform where users can freely create and trade digital items including NFTs.  In cooperation with ReadON in the marketing and business sectors, LINE NEXT plans to offer a number of innovative products to over one million users of ReadOn.  Various digital collaborative merchandise On Feb. 21, the two companies are scheduled to roll out digital collaborative merchandise inspired by “Catto,” the brand character of ReadOn, with a plan to introduce DOSI x ReadON pass tickets that benefit users of both platforms. Limited edition items offering exclusive perks and tokens that can be used on ReadOn will also soon be available for purchase. ReadOn’s previous digital items have proven to be popular: items introduced in January were sold out within just 10 seconds after they were released, with other items also selling out within 30 minutes over four consecutive days. LINE NEXT is committed to collaborating with ReadON to launch more services that can reach a broader audience. Initiative to make Web3 more accessible to the publicIn a related development, LINE NEXT launched the official web and mobile versions of DOSI in January. Under the initiative to make Web3 more accessible to the public, LINE NEXT strives to expand the range of products available on DOSI.                                                                         

Blockchain firm PiLab Technology has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mirae Asset Securities to collaborate on creating Web3 infrastructure – namely Web3 technology for identity authentication – and identify asset management trends in the Web3 sphere. This comes in an effort to establish leverage in the emerging tokenized securities market, according to Korean news outlet The Block Post on Thursday (KST).Photo by GuerrillaBuzz on Unsplash"Through our collaboration with Mirae Asset Securities, we expect to play a major role in the convergence of blockchain technology and financial markets," said Park Do-hyun, CEO of PiLab Technology. "PiLab Technology will continue to lead the way in making Web3 services more user-friendly." Financial giants uniteMirae Asset Securities is the largest investment banking and stock brokerage company by market capitalization in South Korea. The firm previously co-founded a financial innovation consortium with telecommunications conglomerate SK Telecom called Next Finance Initiative, which is preparing to issue tokenized securities by operating a token securities working group on a global blockchain network. Hana Financial Group also recently joined the consortium as a member company. Pioneering services in Web3Meanwhile, PiLab Technology operates its own multichain network called Bifrost, which houses a deposit and lending DeFi service called BiFi. The company has previously raised KRW 14 billion (approximately $10.9 million) in funding from venture capital firms like Korea Investment Partners and more. Last month, PiLab teamed up with the Korea Information Certificate Authority (KICA) and Travel Rule solutions provider CODE to establish an authentication system to advance the country’s Web3 environment.