Seoul, South Korea, fifth November 2026, Chainwire
Seoul, South Korea, November fifth, 2026, Chainwire
With phased rollout focused for the primary half of 2027, the service is anticipated to attach LINE FRIENDS’ on-line and offline commerce with the Web3 ecosystem, providing prospects in Korea and overseas an extra cost possibility for buying bodily merchandise with minicoin
Digital IP entertainment company IPX (previously LINE FRIENDS) plans to introduce a cost service utilizing ‘minicoin’ at LINE FRIENDS on-line and offline shops. The service is meant to make digital asset funds a seamless extension of the fan expertise, linking followers’ engagement with character IP to the purpose of buy and connecting IPX’s on-line and offline commerce with a Web3-based digital ecosystem.
For greater than a decade, IPX has introduced its character IPs to life by way of merchandise, content material, and pop-ups, extending these experiences throughout on-line and offline channels worldwide. Constructing on its experience in IP and retail, the introduction of this service presents a brand new digital IP commerce mannequin that integrates digital asset cost know-how into IP merchandise purchases.
Minicoin is a utility coin developed and issued by Mini Labs below an official license granted by IPX to make use of its globally in style ‘minini’ character IP. Its blockchain-based ecosystem seeks to transparently report actions generated by way of interactions between IP and followers, together with creation, consumption, and transactions, and hyperlink them to registration and settlement processes.
The minicoin cost service is deliberate for phased rollout throughout LINE FRIENDS shops in Korea and overseas, with a rollout focused for the primary half of 2027. The service is anticipated to supply worldwide guests and abroad followers further cost choices. Ok-POP SQUARE, which opened within the coronary heart of Seoul’s Hongdae district in June 2025, welcomed over a million guests in its first yr, roughly 80% of whom have been worldwide followers from greater than 90 nations. As digital belongings achieve traction as cost strategies worldwide, the service is anticipated to see sturdy demand.
“This service rollout marks an essential step towards utilizing digital belongings to buy bodily merchandise, past buying and selling and use inside particular platforms,” mentioned an IPX official. “We imagine that the worth of IP can develop additional because it expands past connecting with followers by way of content material and merchandise to discovering new methods to have interaction with them throughout the digital IP ecosystem. We’ll proceed to discover new IP enterprise alternatives that join IP, followers, and commerce collectively on this evolving panorama.”
About IPX (F.Ok.A. LINE FRIENDS)
IPX is the brand new company identify of LINE FRIENDS, a worldwide character model that began with unique characters together with BROWN, CONY, and SALLY, created to be used as stickers for the main cellular messenger app LINE and its 200 million lively customers worldwide. IPX has introduced a brand new enterprise technique that it might speed up the worldwide growth of its IP companies by diversifying its IP portfolios concentrating on all ages and advancing its digital and retail enterprise. IPX offers numerous IP experiences together with BT21(BTS), ZO&FRIENDS(G-DRAGON), minini, and JOGUMAN. It has additionally carried out its IP-based enterprise by partnering with world firms together with Netflix (unique animated sequence) and HoYoverse (Genshin Affect) to win the hearts of over 50 million Millennials and Era Z worldwide. IPX at the moment operates in 18 markets worldwide, together with Seoul, New York, LA, Tokyo, and Shanghai, and operates on eight on-line gross sales platforms.
Contacts
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Jiwoo Hong
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Sr. Director
Hanna Park
Burson
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