SEOUL VIBE: Business Lounge
🎉Join us for a special business opportunity at KBW 2025! (ⓧ.ⓧ)
This is the third of three side events under the theme of “Seoul Vibe,” centered on K-Culture, from K-BBQ to K-POP, crafted to let you feel the true SOUL of SEOUL at KBW 2025.
Hosted at the Walkerhill Hotel during KBW 2025: IMPACT, the Business Lounge offers a private networking space in the heart of the main venue.
It will bring together distinguished co-hosts — Kraken, The Sandbox, Aligned, Aethir) — along with leading projects and industry leaders to connect through high-level business conversations in a setting designed for exceptional accessibility and comfort.
Each suite is located in the Walkerhill Hotel’s Grand Hall wing, directly connected to the main conference hall by elevator for seamless movement between sessions and meetings.
※ Details
Time-table: 09:00 – 17:00
Meeting Requests: Submit via Luma, and each dedicated team will follow up to coordinate schedules.
Room Information: Specific suite numbers will be announced soon.
This is more than just a meeting room. It is an exclusive environment for strategic networking, VIP conversations, and building the partnerships that will shape the future of Web3.
👥 Get to know our co-hosts
1. Kraken
Kraken is a technology platform built on crypto that unlocks access and reduces inefficiencies to drive financial freedom — for the crypto economy and beyond. Millions of individuals, professional traders, and institutions around the world use Kraken to trade digital and traditional assets, including cryptocurrencies, national currencies, U.S. futures, and U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs.
Kraken markets can be monitored and traded via the web or through the Kraken and Kraken Pro iOS and Android apps. Futures platforms by NinjaTrader, a Kraken company, are available on desktop, web, and mobile via www.ninjatrader.com.
2. The Sandbox
The Sandbox, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, is one of the decentralized virtual worlds that has been fueling the recent growth of virtual real estate demand, having partnered with major brands including Warner Music Group, Ubisoft, The Rabbids, Cut the Rope, Tony Hawk, Gucci Vault, The Walking Dead, Invincible, Snoop Dogg, Adidas, Deadmau5, Steve Aoki, SM Brand Marketing, The Smurfs, Care Bears, and Atari.
Building on existing The Sandbox IP that has more than 40 million global installs on mobile, The Sandbox metaverse offers players and creators a decentralized and intuitive platform to create immersive 3D worlds and game experiences and to safely store, trade, and monetize their creations.
3. Aligned
Aligned is a vertically integrated stack for building applications on a verifiable internet. Whether it's financial infrastructure or AI systems, we provide the foundation for provable execution with one-click solutions for wallets, rollups, interoperability, and ZK services in a world where trust is no longer a given.
Aligned provides a full stack of infrastructure and services for verification, rollups, proving, interoperability and wallets that make it easy for anyone to build future-proofed solutions and products on top of Ethereum using the latest ZK technologies.
4. Aethir
Aethir is revolutionizing DePIN with its Scalable Decentralized Cloud Infrastructure (DCI) for Gaming & AI. Founded in 2021, Aethir has over $150M in funding, distributed 90,000+ Checker Node licenses, backed by Framework Ventures, Sanctor Capital, Animoca Brands, Hashkey and more. Aethir counts 2M+ community members and currently has access to 3000+ NVIDIA H100s.
5. XPLA (ⓧ.ⓧ)
XPLA is a Web3 gaming-focused Layer 1 blockchain led by the Com2uS Group. Built on Tendermint and fully EVM-compatible, XPLA delivers scalability, interoperability and has achieved ISAE 3000 certification for its security and reliability. With 20+ titles, including AAA IPs like Summoners War: Chronicles and The Walking Dead: All-Stars, plus its wearable NFT project Hello PAL.