Kakao Corp, a major Internet conglomerate and service provider for popular South Korean messaging app KakaoTalk, and a new stablecoin project, dubbed Terra, have signed a partnership agreement to develop the latter's blockchain-based payment system, English-language news outlet The Korea Times reported Nov. 14.
The new partnership agreement will apply the former's blockchain platform technology Klaytn, the brainchild of Kakao subsidiary Ground X, to a blockchain-based payment system.
"The partnership agreement is expected to contribute to promptly creating a blockchain ecosystem suitable for services offered to a large group of people."
Back in the spring, Kakao Corp announced plans to establish a blockchain subsidiary tentatively named "Kakao Blockchain," as well as to launch an Initial Coin Offering, Cointelegraph reported Mar. 5.
Later, the company introduced a new business plan, Kakao 3.0, that included opening a blockchain platform aimed at the wider Asian markets.
The testnet version of Kakao's new blockchain platform had been launched earlier this fall, ahead of a formal schedule to launch in Q1 2019, Cointelegraph wrote Oct. 8.
Terra, a stablecoin project co-founded by Daniel Shin - the creator of South Korean e-commerce marketplace Ticket Monster -revealed this fall the close of a $32 million funding round led by a string of major crypto exchanges, Cointelegraph reported Aug. 29.
South Korea: Messaging Giant Kakao, Stablecoin Terra Partner for Blockchain Payment System
gepubliceerd op Nov 14, 2018
by Cointele | gepubliceerd op Coinage
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