Mini Dapp
EDCON 2025 · September 2025 · 9:59
Benji Kim introduces LINE NEXT’s Dapp Portal and its mini-dApps inside the messaging app and on the web. He discusses social-login wallets, the Kaia Wave builder programme and plans to expand beyond games into DeFi and stablecoin services, explaining how LINE’s distribution could connect familiar consumer experiences with Web3 applications.
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From EDCON 2025, hosted by EDCON.
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I'd like to invite our next speaker, Mr. Benji Kim. Mr. Cam, the floor is yours. [Music] Hello everyone. Um, I'm Benji. I work as the director at Line Next at the moment. Um I'm here to um present what line messaging app is doing in the web3 business. Would like to share the road map and also the things that we've been doing at line in the web three business.
So miniab is actually a web 3 app store made by line messaging app and I'm pretty much sure that uh since we're in Japan like many of you have heard about what live messaging app is. We have around 200 million users and the the key regions that we have for line app is Japan, Taiwan, Thailand. Line next is a web3 focus company under Lines's umbrella. Uh we established this company back in 2022 and we have raised the biggest investment in web 3 in Asia back in 2024 and we've launched this web 3 app store
called DAP portal just early this year. So miniab the dab portal consists of two versions one running on the line app directly and another version that is running on the browser. So in order to connect your dabs with the DAP portal you will need to use the SDK that we provide on the website of line next. uh without the SDK you can never get your deps on board so please check it out u I'll be sharing the QR code after this presentation
for the line version um you can directly access the D portal on the line app but right now we have taken it down for one month because we're now upgrading the app store at the moment um so no installation of the dabs are required because all the dabs are running on the uh running by HTML um technology and creating wallet for um line ecosystem is just 10 seconds. You just need to click a few times to create the wallet. And we also support um CEX wallets like OKX and Bet in order to to invite um web3 native users into our
ecosystem. And for builders, we actually have a great marketing channels that we can use to target web to line users. Uh we can use the promotional um official like messages targeting the uh users in the line app. For the web version, no installation of uh Linux is needed because we don't want to limit ourselves within Lines ecosystem, but we would rather want to tap into global users that are not um using the line in their regions.
And in order to access the web version, you can just simply type that portal.io on your preferred browser. You can create your wallet by using your social media accounts like Google, Facebook or Cacao Talk. And no VPN is required to use this um web3 app store. So we are now about to uh finishing the season one of the builders of a program called Kaya Wave. Um let me just share some key figures that we have got from the season one. So uh we have launched around 100 mini deps on the DEP portal and uh the we surpassed a total of 130
million cumulative users um meaning that this is not the like unique users but it's a sum of all the users that have used our um dabs but unique number wise we're around the 60 million users. So uh yeah we have 60 million users on the dev portal and we also generated 13 million sales volume just in six months and for this KYA program we have received around 1,000 applications uh from builders from different regions for the GMV wise um the average of top three projects on that portal is around at 2 million USD
and ARPU it's around at um $2,400 uh for the top three projects. These are the dabs that I like. Uh we recently launched um a dab called Ragnarok. It's one of my favorite games and just in two weeks we acquired 300,000 um users. I think right now we have passed around uh 500k after launching this um dab just in four weeks.
We're now working on a season two of Ka Wave. So, uh, we're going to change the support program moving forward. Uh, we would rather just go with the milestone basis moving forward. Meaning that if you hit milestone one, we're going to drop you a great package. If you hit milestone two, we're going to provide you with a better support. And once you hit um milestone 4 that we have internally, we're going to have a unique um package that we have never provided before. So, we're going to get your service directly listed on the very front page of the lineup, meaning that your service will be uh exposed to 200 million users
around the world. And this is only for um the devs that have hit the milestone that we have uh as a as a standard. We'll be able to share more details about this uh in in the coming weeks. And in the season two, we would like to also invite D5 mini devs. So in the season one, um, we've been only like locked in for gamefy dev because gaming games are more like gaming is more familiar uh to like web to users, right? But in the season we would like to also invite DeFi depths in order to uh to to introduce the stable coin ecosystem
towards web to users on the line app and this is one more thing that I want to share today. So uh we all know that the stable coin has become a thing um you know recently right. So yeah, when we look at the gold market, the digital gold sector um captures 11% of the market share. But for the dollar, it's only at 1% and for other currencies, it's only at 2%.
We see a lot of uh players now trying to issue stable coins recently. For example, like JPYC, they got the official goat from the government, right? And also Progmat is setting up a uh remittance rail for B2B players in South Korea, Nepal pay, they're working with us closely in Taiwan. Um legislation is in in preparation. In Thailand, um Big Cup is talking to the government and you know, they're now in the sandbox. in Indonesia, they have two big players um trying to issue stable coins as well.
And in light of um and in order to leverage this hype around this uh stable coin, Line is now building a NEO bank. This will be officially announced in um in the coming weeks, probably during the KBW or uh during the token 2049. So, please stay tuned. This is going to be a massive uh launch that maybe people have never seen before. This is just a mockup that we have. So um on the tap one, you can check um your balance, your assets. On the tap two, you'll have access to the web three app store that we have, meaning that you can leverage your stable coins that you have in your wallet. Um on the tap two to
purchase items or spend on your um favorite games. on the tab three we're going to have tax but yes we do understand that providing a dex service um in in in Japan is not legal yet so we'll probably uh drop this tax product once we have a go ahead from the government and on the t four you can you know we're going to have the wallet for stable coins for line users so um yeah this is about it from me today if you want to learn more about lines ecosystem Please scan the QR code here. Thank you for having me.