Wemade's Jang Hyun-guk: "Wemix 3.0 Mainnet to Open Next Month... Aiming to Be the World's No.1 Mainnet"

Jang Hyun-guk, CEO of Wemade, is being interviewed on the 3rd at Wemade headquarters in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. / Seongnam = Photo by Kang Jin-hyung aymsdream@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Nahum] Jang Hyun-guk, CEO of Wemade, announced on the 3rd that the company’s own mainnet, WEMIX 3.0, will be launched as early as next month.

At the Q2 media briefing on the same day, CEO Jang said, "The completeness of the WEMIX 3.0 mainnet, which launched its testnet last month, is improving day by day."

He added, "The current status shows a level of completeness that allows us to open next month," and "Our goal is to become the world’s number one mainnet, and I believe this is fully achievable."

Wemade has been verifying the stability of the WEMIX 3.0 protocol since the 1st of last month. The plan is to launch the mainnet after completing the tests.

Wemade plans to secure 40 node council partners. CEO Jang said, "In WEMIX 3.0, we will operate under the name of node council partners, granting more transparent and decentralized authorities," and "We are recruiting capable overseas partners who can contribute to the WEMIX ecosystem."

Regarding the Q2 turnaround to a deficit this year, CEO Jang explained that the cause was a sharp increase in marketing expenses. He said, "Marketing costs temporarily rose due to the launch of the new title 'Mir M,' so they will return to normal during periods without large-scale new releases."

He continued, "Wemade has a lot to do with the opening of WEMIX 3.0, so we need to keep hiring good people," and "We will continue to recruit 80 to 100 personnel quarterly in the second half of the year."

CEO Jang also expressed anticipation for the new MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) 'Night Crow,' which will be unveiled at G-STAR this November. Night Crow is being developed as a blockchain game by Mad Engine, in which Wemade invested 10 billion KRW in 2020.

CEO Jang said, “Through Night Crow and Legend of Mir, we will present a more advanced blockchain economy,” and “We are developing with the goal of dominating the global MMORPG market by integrating the blockchain know-how Wemade has accumulated.”