South Korean online video game to run on blockchain

“Kingdom Beneath Hearth,” a preferred South Korean online game, might be run on blockchain know-how later this 12 months. Picture courtesy of Bloom Know-how

SEOUL, April 11 (UPI) — Kingdom Beneath Hearth, an internationally well-liked South Korean on-line online game, might be operated on blockchain this 12 months.

Bloom Know-how, the creator of the sport, stated Monday it had efficiently run the sport on an internally created blockchain referred to as Locus Chain with out relying on recreation servers.

Kingdom Beneath Hearth was first launched within the early 2000s by South Korean corporations Blueside and Phantagram in over 30 nations, drawing followers in the USA and Europe.

“I believe traditionally, Locus Chain is the primary public blockchain to function servers for on-line video games. It’s a technological breakthrough,” Bloom Know-how CEO Lee Sang-yoon advised UPI Information Korea.

“For my part, we now have proved that recreation companies will be supplied on decentralized networks and know-how,” he stated.

Bloom Know-how stated it plans to allow customers to play Kingdom Beneath Hearth on the blockchain later this 12 months.

Digital Finance Analysis Institute chief Moon Younger-bae – a high blockchain professional in South Korea – stated a rising variety of companies will undertake blockchain know-how down the street.

“The general public blockchain has strengths as a decentralized community, however it additionally accommodates downsides, corresponding to slowing pace when the variety of customers will increase,” Moon stated in a cellphone interview.

“Over the previous few years, nonetheless, there have been a number of technological developments, together with the securing of decentralization and pace on the similar time, as demonstrated by Locus Chain. I believe extra progressive blockchain applied sciences are to observe,” he stated.