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Korean Bithumb Exchange to Launch NFT Marketplace

 

Rumors abound that LG subsidiary, LG CNS, is that the technical partner serving to Bithumb develop its NFT marketplace that is ready to be launched for some purpose in 2022.

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South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb is developing an associate degree NFT marketplace with “a giant company” thought to be LG systema nervosum centrale, a subsidiary of LG Corporation. Bithumb business executive Heo Baek-young confirmed in an exceedingly Jan. thirteen interview that the exchange was presently developing a nonfungible token (NFT) exchange which might facilitate it keep competitive with Korbit and Upbit, 2 alternative domestic Korean exchanges. Heo said:

   “An NFT marketplace is necessary for promoting blockchain-based content, which can become an actuation within the future.”There is no confirmation nevertheless on the identity of the content creators or artists that have in agreement to issue add NFT type for Bithumb. Several media shops in the Asian nation have reportable that the NFT marketplace is being developed together with school big LG systema nervosum centrale, however a political candidate from Bithumb same on Jan. seventeen that “it is not possible to verify whether or not it’s LG systema nervosum centrale and whether or not it’s simply them or a gaggle of firms.”

Launching an associate degree NFT marketplace would facilitate Bithumb to stay competitive. Bithumb presently sits well in second place among Korean exchanges graded by mercantilism volume. However, it’s a foreign second behind Upbit that boasts $1.7 billion in 24-hour mercantilism volume compared to Bithumb’s $730 million. Upbit launched its own NFT marketplace in Nov. 2021 with some fanfare because it was able to secure many K-pop teams together with BTS to comply with exclusive NFT content.

 The Korbit crypto exchange, which is closely held by diversion big Nexon, was South Korea’s initial exchange to launch an associate degree NFT marketplace in June 2021. Korbit is Korea’s fourth-largest crypto exchange with regarding $7 million in 24-hour mercantilism volume.

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While international NFT traders tend to mint and trade on-chain on OpenSea, Korean traders tend to stay on centralized platforms. Despite the Klaytn blockchain being developed in Asian nations and being only 1 of 3 platforms with native support on OpenSea, mercantilism volume there has lagged behind the two-dimensional figures and Ethereum-based marketplaces.

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