WhaleEx Partners with AcroEOS. Initiates EOS World Tour in Seoul to Discover Great dApps

EOS World Tour is a series of meet ups initiated by WhaleEx, with goal to connect EOS holders and to discover valuable dApps. The first event took place on September 16th in Seoul, Korea. WhaleEx worked closely with top tier Korean EOS BP AcroEOS on the event planning and execution. The two organizers filtered through a long list of dApp projects to finally settle on 7 dApps to showcase during the meet up. The event was filled with EOS holders and community participants, with discussions ranging from EOS specific topics to broader blockchain industry outlook.

As a leading EOS based decentralized exchange, WhaleEx updated the audience with its latest development progress and future roadmap. WhaleEx has so far provided a sneak peak of its exchange architecture, in which user assets are safely stored in smart contract’s custody. Its proprietary off-chain trade matching engine is capable of completing trades in 10 microseconds. WhaleEx will support web, iOS and Android platforms, offering user experience on par with centralized exchanges.

Several EOS dApp projects also presented at the event. The founding members openly shared their experience developing dApps for different industry use cases.  

Ultimo5 is the team behind HTML5 game platform to provide additional profits for developers, monetary rewards for players, all on an open and transparent platform.  

ITAM Network is building a platform to facilitate in-game item storage and trading with its purpose specific wallet and exchange.  

ada mixes fashion and social network to create a mobile game that boasts photorealistic fashion clothing licensed by avant-garde design houses.  

Owdin is a distributed virtual software defined data center that enhances user experience and is capable of defending against myriad of cyber security attacks.

Langchain provides translation services based on AI and community inputs. As volunteers manually translated between languages, AI improves it algorithms for auto-translation. Langchain is an open and decentralized translation platform.

Paytomat is an Ukraine-based project. It provides a payment solution for merchants where customers have the option to pay with a variety of cryptocurrencies, and merchants can choose to be paid in fiat currencies. Paytomat showed off their live demo at the Seoul event. Attendees of the event were able to use their payment solution to purchase espresso drinks at Debunk, the event venue.

This event is made possible by selfless contribution from leading Korean BP AcroEOS, a subsidiary of ICB Co., Ltd., an expert in payment technology and merchant acceptance whose main businesses are cross border retail payments, remittance, and logistics. ICB launched AcroEOS to accelerate the EOS ecosystem’s access to existing real world transaction systems. Through ICB, AcroEOS has the licenses required in Korea to operate in the financial technology sector. The event venue Debunk is dedicated to service EOS community and will be open to host future EOS events.

Since announcement, EOS World Tour has received support from over 80 entities ranging from BPs, media, dApp. The tour will be covering over 10 cities worldwide in the coming months.