Interchain NFT game platform on the way from South Korean services provider 2bytes and blockchain outfit ICONLOOP.
January 26, 2022
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Game Developer and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press]
Author: 2bytes
Seoul, South Korea – January 25, 2022 – Global game services startup 2bytes Corp. (led by CEO, Ham Young Chul), along with major South Korean blockchain company ICONLOOP Inc. (led by CEO, Jonghyup Kim) and the ICON Foundation announced their strategic partnership to establish a new blockchain-based interchain NFT game platform called ‘SPERA’, with the release of a teaser site on January 25th.
Within the newly announced partnership, 2bytes will develop and operate the SPERA platform, helping to grow the blockchain community and ecosystem, while ICONLOOP and ICON Foundation will provide technical expertise utilizing its interchain technology to support interoperability of NFTs on the platform.
The teaser site released today provides a first glimpse into SPERA and provides insights into how the platform will be developed. The name of the platform is a portmanteau of ‘Space Opera’ which also means ‘to hope’ in Latin. The goal of the platform is to establish itself as an interchain NFT blockchain game platform that allows for the interoperability of NFTs issued from various other blockchain networks and platforms.
2bytes is a South Korean startup that offers game localization, QA, operations and strategic consultation services to game developers hoping to reach a global audience. Since founding, it has managed to add high profile clients such as Pearl Abyss, Kakao Games and over 40 other game developers to its growing portfolio of projects. 2bytes has also recently established its own game development studio to begin work on their own game titles. Through the new partnership, 2bytes hopes to establish and expand its own brand of blockchain business and will spearhead the project based on its expertise in previously launching and servicing global hit games.
ICONLOOP is a major player on the blockchain scene in South Korea with its own platform and service. It provides technological support to the global interchain project ICON through a foundation that includes major public institutions and corporations worldwide.
Within the partnership, the ICON Foundation will focus on establishing an interoperatable blockchain ecosystem based on its interchain technology.
Currently, the vast majority of NFTs issued and distributed on various existing blockchain platforms do not have much use beyond ownership. Likewise, NFTs found in play-to-earn titles are currently limited in that they can only be used within the same game and platform.
The aim of SPERA is to exceed those limitations by optimizing the interoperability of NFTs through the implementation of interchain BTP (Blockchain Transmission Protocol) technology.
Unlike centralized cross-chain technologies, the key difference of BTP, the signature interchain technology developed by the ICON Foundation connecting multiple interoperable blockchains as part of the global ICON interchain project, is that it provides higher security and versatility through its decentralized architecture.
2bytes and the ICON Foundation plans to ultimately showcase a platform that not only features NFTs from various chains and ecosystems, but also one where users can immerse themselves in opportunities through play-to-earn game experience.
Further details about the interchain NFT game platform, SPERA can be found on its teaser site (https://spera.world) released today.
About 2bytes Corp.
2bytes is a South Korean game services startup company led by industry veterans with extensive experience in launching massively succesful global game titles. It collaborates with game company partners to provide game localization, QA, live ops services, and strategic consultation services tailored for the global video and mobile game market. 2bytes has grown to over 90 employees recently establishing its own game development studio, and works with over 40 game company partners including major developers Pearl Abyss and Kakao Games. 2bytes also plans add blockchain game development and NFT platform services as part of its business through recently announced partnership with ICONLOOP Inc. and the ICON Foundation.
*2bytes Website – http://www.2bytescorp.com
About ICONLOOP Inc.
Founded in May of 2016, ICONLOOP Inc. is a major blockchain company that leads South Korea in innovating blockchain platforms and services. Based on independently developed blockchain technologies, ICONLOOP provides technological services to various public institutions, corporations and to the global interchain project ICON. It also works to popularize the use of blockchain technologies by providing various blockchain-based services such as DID (Decentralized Identifier) certification service ‘ZZEUNG’ based on certification platform ‘MyID’, visitor management service ‘VisitMe’, and ‘Jeju Safety Code’ the electronic visitor registry for the province of Jeju, South Korea.
*ICONLOOP Website – http://www.iconloop.com
About ICON
ICON is the global interchain project launched by the ICON Foundation in 2017 and is a smart contract and blockchain-compatible layer1 blockchain with ICX being the ICON network’s virtual asset. ICON BTP (Blockchain Transmission Protocol) differs from many existing bridging solutions in that it is an inter-blockchain communication protocol allowing for data and NFT assets to be shared between blockchains. It is compatible without limitation on a blockchain’s consensus algorithm, running instead smart contracts, not relying on node validators to verify transactions between blockchains. Some blockchains that are to be connected to ICON via its BTP technology are Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Polkadot, NEAR Protocol, Harmony, and also feature Balanced, DAO, Omm Finance, Optimus Protocol, the Equality Exchange, and DeFi projects.
*ICON Website – http://www.iconrepublic.org
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