About 1,000 attend Upbit Developer Conference preliminary events

South Korea’s unicorn startup Dunamu Inc. hosted two preliminary events for the Upbit Developer Conference (UDC) scheduled for later this month and both were met with higher-than-expected turnout.

Dunamu is the operator of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, founded in 2017.

The company hosted a Q&A session last month to answer questions from aspiring developers on the topics of non-fungible tokens (NFT), Web 3.0, smart contracts and more.

“We designed the online conference for 500 attendees on the beta service of our metaverse platform ‘2nd block’ but a whopping 843 people showed up,” a Dunamu employee who organized the event told The Korea Economic Daily. “The interest for emerging technology was palpable.”

The fifth annual UDC will take place for two days from September 22 in the port city of Busan. 

It is the largest developer conference in South Korea, in which 617 companies and 15,100 people participated over the last four years. 

Last Wednesday, Dunamu held a joint mentoring event with the Banks Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs’ D.Camp, in which Martin Oh, chief technology officer of blockchain thinktank Lambda 256 Ltd., owned by Dunamu, and other C-level executives of Dunamu affiliates participated. 

About 150 people joined in on YouTube Live to hear the industry veterans in real-time.

This year’s UDC will be held at the Busan Port International Exhibition & Convention Center (BPEX), the first offline event in three years. 

The speaker lineup includes Tron founder Justin Sun, The Sandbox COO and co-founder Sebastien Borget, Solana Foundation’s head of product and partner engineering Matt Sorg, and other prominent figures in the industry.

Approximately 3,000 developers from around the globe are expected to be at the two-day event. 

Write to Nan-Sae Bin at binthere@hankyung.com
Jee Abbey Lee edited this article.