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 a further fee choice for buying bodily merchandise with minicoin
Digital IP leisure firm IPX (previously LINE FRIENDS) plans to introduce a fee 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 via 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 fee expertise into IP merchandise purchases.
Minicoin is a utility coin developed and issued by Mini Labs underneath an official license granted by IPX to make use of its globally fashionable ‘minini’ character IP. Its blockchain-based ecosystem seeks to transparently report actions generated via interactions between IP and followers, together with creation, consumption, and transactions, and hyperlink them to registration and settlement processes.
The minicoin fee 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 extra fee 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 12 months, roughly 80% of whom have been worldwide followers from greater than 90 international locations. As digital property acquire traction as fee strategies worldwide, the service is anticipated to see sturdy demand.
“This service rollout marks an necessary step towards utilizing digital property to buy bodily merchandise, past buying and selling and use inside particular platforms,” mentioned an IPX official. “We consider that the worth of IP can develop additional because it expands past connecting with followers via content material and merchandise to discovering new methods to have interaction with them throughout the digital IP ecosystem. We are going to 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 title of LINE FRIENDS, a world character model that began with authentic characters together with BROWN, CONY, and SALLY, created to be used as stickers for the main cellular messenger app LINE and its 200 million energetic customers worldwide. IPX has introduced a brand new enterprise technique that it will speed up the worldwide enlargement of its IP companies by diversifying its IP portfolios focusing on all ages and advancing its digital and retail enterprise. IPX gives 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 corporations together with Netflix (authentic animated sequence) and HoYoverse (Genshin Influence) to win the hearts of over 50 million Millennials and Technology Z worldwide. IPX at present operates in 18 markets worldwide, together with Seoul, New York, LA, Tokyo, and Shanghai, and operates on 8 on-line gross sales platforms.
Contacts
SupervisorJiwoo HongBurson[email protected]Sr. DirectorHanna ParkBurson[email protected]
