South Korea’s largest crypto exchanges have introduced they’ll delist WEMIX (WEMIX) — the native token of gaming firm Wemade’s blockchain platform Wemix — alleging the agency supplied “false info” in response to an funding warning it was issued.
Bithumb, Upbeat, Coinone, Korbit and Gopax — that are a part of a collective referred to as the Digital Asset eXchange Alliance (DAXA) — introduced on Nov. 24 that they’d terminate contract assist for WEMIX, with buying and selling set to finish on Dec. 8.
Within the funding warning issued Oct. 27, DAXA alleged that there was significantly extra WEMIX in circulation than Wemix had disclosed, and Wemix had pledged to work with DAXA to alleviate these considerations.
After information of the choice to delist broke, WEMIX Communication launched a press release claiming it had sincerely responded to requests and considerations raised by DAXA and corrected various points the place they imagine the circulating provide had been overstated the group, including:
“The WEMIX group doesn’t acknowledge or agree with the unreasonable determination made by the Digital Asset eXchange Alliance (DAXA)… It’s essential to notice that the Basis has not circulated a single WEMIX greater than what we’ve formally disclosed so far.”
The worth of WEMIX plummeted following the information, and on the time of writing is down 70.8% with a present value of $0.476.
The CEO of Wemade Henry Chang has reportedly invested his month-to-month wage into the WEMIX token eight instances, together with buying 18,928 WEMIX Basic with October wage this 12 months.
Wemade is greatest identified for its hit franchise The Legend of Mir which peaked at over 200 million signal ups and consists of one of many world’s hottest blockchain video games, Mir 4. It introduced on Nov. 2 that it had raised $46 million from Microsoft, and asset administration corporations Kiwoom Securities and Shinhan Asset Administration. Chang stated on the time:
“Wemade and Wemix will proceed to exert efforts to draw extra capital and actively make investments to construct the worldwide digital economic system platform.”
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Wemade additionally introduced a plan to launch a brand new economic system platform which mixes non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).
Whereas South Korea is likely one of the greatest gaming markets and blockchain adopters on this planet, the nation has banned play-to-earn (P2E) blockchain video games.
Since being elected on Mar. 10 in a decent race, crypto-friendly President Yoon Suk-yeol has hinted that the ban might be lifted and is trying to develop the digital asset market by overhauling “laws which are removed from actuality and unreasonable.”
