NEAR Protocol Completes Gaming Ecosystem by Onboarding Vortex Gaming a Web3 Subsidiary of Koreas Largest Game Media•Community INVEN
NEAR Protocol Completes Gaming Ecosystem by Onboarding Vortex Gaming a Web3 Subsidiary of Korea’s Largest Game Media·Community INVEN.
- NEAR Foundation confirmed the onboarding of Vortex Gaming Koreas largest game media·community INVENs Web3 subsidiary
- NEAR Foundation continues to strengthen collaboration with leading companies in game industry to attract users and companies to NEAR ecosystem
SEOUL South Korea June 24 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NEAR Foundation announced on the 23rd that the onboarding of Vortex Gaming a Web3 subsidiary of a leading game industry INVEN into the NEAR ecosystem has been confirmed through a strategic partnership. INVEN is the largest game media·community in Korea with a monthly active user (MAU) count reaching 7.2 million
In addition to onboarding content on NEAR Protocol NEAR Foundation and INVEN plan to collaborate in supporting the growth of Vortex Gaming and strengthening the NEAR game ecosystem. Moreover establishing an active collaboration system to enhance brand awareness and business network such as conducting offline hackathons and events to foster developer talent.
INVEN is the largest game media·community in Korea. For over 20 years it has served as a leading company in the game industry driving development as the top online game media platform. Based on content generated in-house INVEN innovatively continues to expand to industries such as entertainment and Web3.
Vortex Gaming is a content-based game community that builds services optimized for Web3 games and provides a global social media platform and features such as Gaming Guild. Vortex Gaming aims to break stereotypes of current Web3 games by offering specialized content such as thorough analysis of in-game economy and the completeness of the game. By leveraging its successful experience in building Web2 communities Vortex Gaming plans to establish a robust user base by incorporating both high quality content and INVENs existing wide pool of users.
NEAR Protocol is a global Layer 1 blockchain that focuses on usability and scalability. NEAR is also the Blockchain Operating System (BOS) an OS that allows Web2 companies and developers to effortlessly build decentralized apps and experiences for the open web. With BOS features like FastAuth Web2 companies and developers can experience and onboarding process similar to login via email These features facilitate the entry barrier present in the current Web3 game industry and will play a pivotal role alongside Vortex Gaming in popularizing the NEAR ecosystem for gaming.
Vortex Gaming CEO HOON JAI LEE stated: The ultimate goal is to build an integrated gamer community that encompasses both Web3 and traditional Web2 gamers by providing high quality Web3 and Web2 content alike. LEE added: Gamers and their communities are the most crucial components of the game ecosystem. In addition to offering game content for gamers and their communities Vortex Gaming envisions to establish a sustainable cycle by incentivizing gamers production of content such as character builds and game guides.
Commenting on her support for INVEN joining the NEAR Protocol Marieke Flament CEO of NEAR Foundation said: Following the leading companies in the gaming industry such as Kakao Games Wemade Netmarbles Marblex we expect our sustainable game ecosystem to be further enhanced through this partnership with INVEN and look forward to making further inroads in this dynamic space.
Scott Lee Co-CEO of NEAR Korea emphasized: While the strong content competitiveness of leading companies plays a crucial role in attracting many users to the NEAR ecosystem community is the key driving force in maintaining this competitiveness. He further highlighted: The synergy effects resulting from the onboarding of Vortex Gaming will further strengthen NEARs position as the optimal mainnet in the Web3 game ecosystem accelerating ecosystem development.
