IPX Plans to Bring ‘minicoin’ Payments to LINE FRIENDS Online and Offline Stores, Expanding IP Experiences Beyond Content and Merchandise

Seoul, South Korea, November fifth, 2026, Chainwire

With phased rollout focused for the primary half of 2027, the service is predicted to join LINE FRIENDS’ on-line and offline commerce with the Web3 ecosystem, providing clients in Korea and overseas an extra fee choice for buying bodily merchandise with minicoin

Digital IP entertainment company IPX (previously LINE FRIENDS) plans to introduce a fee service utilizing ‘minicoin’ at LINE FRIENDS on-line and offline shops. The service is meant to make digital asset funds a seamless extension of the fan expertise, linking followers’ engagement with character IP to the purpose of buy and connecting IPX’s on-line and offline commerce with a Web3-based digital ecosystem.

For greater than a decade, IPX has introduced its character IPs to life by way of merchandise, content material, and pop-ups, extending these experiences throughout on-line and offline channels worldwide. Building on its experience in IP and retail, the introduction of this service presents a brand new digital IP commerce mannequin that integrates digital asset fee know-how into IP merchandise purchases.

Minicoin is a utility coin developed and issued by Mini Labs underneath an official license granted by IPX to use its globally standard ‘minini’ character IP. Its blockchain-based ecosystem seeks to transparently document actions generated by way of interactions between IP and followers, together with creation, consumption, and transactions, and hyperlink them to registration and settlement processes.

The minicoin fee service is deliberate for phased rollout throughout LINE FRIENDS shops in Korea and overseas, with a rollout focused for the primary half of 2027. The service is predicted to provide worldwide guests and abroad followers further fee choices. Okay-POP SQUARE, which opened within the coronary heart of Seoul’s Hongdae district in June 2025, welcomed over a million guests in its first yr, roughly 80% of whom have been worldwide followers from greater than 90 international locations. As digital belongings acquire traction as fee strategies worldwide, the service is predicted to see sturdy demand.

“This service rollout marks an vital step towards utilizing digital belongings to buy bodily merchandise, past buying and selling and use inside particular platforms,” mentioned an IPX official. “We consider that the worth of IP can develop additional because it expands past connecting with followers by way of content material and merchandise to discovering new methods to interact with them throughout the digital IP ecosystem. We will proceed to discover new IP enterprise alternatives that join IP, followers, and commerce collectively on this evolving panorama.”

 About IPX (F.Okay.A. LINE FRIENDS)

IPX is the brand new company title of LINE FRIENDS, a world character model that began with authentic characters together with BROWN, CONY, and SALLY, created to be used as stickers for the main cellular messenger app LINE and its 200 million lively customers worldwide. IPX has introduced a brand new enterprise technique that it could speed up the worldwide enlargement of its IP companies by diversifying its IP portfolios concentrating on all ages and advancing its digital and retail enterprise. IPX supplies various IP experiences together with BT21(BTS), ZO&FRIENDS(G-DRAGON), minini, and JOGUMAN. It has additionally carried out its IP-based enterprise by partnering with international firms together with Netflix (authentic animated sequence) and HoYoverse (Genshin Impact) to win the hearts of over 50 million Millennials and Generation Z worldwide. IPX presently operates in 18 markets worldwide, together with Seoul, New York, LA, Tokyo, and Shanghai, and operates on 8 on-line gross sales platforms.

Contacts

Manager
Jiwoo Hong
Burson
jiwoo.hong@bursonglobal.com
Sr. Director
Hanna Park
Burson
hanna.park@bursonglobal.com

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