CEO Jang Hyun-guk's Next, Acquires Jet5, a developer specializing in blockchain games
Sep 04, 2025
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NEXUS announced on the 4th that it has acquired Jet5, a developer specializing in blockchain games.
With this acquisition, Nexus will accelerate the expansion of the global blockchain ecosystem by recruiting CEO Kim Kang-soo, the founder of Jet5, as a key talent.
CEO Kim is a developer from Seoul National University of Technology, and served as a producer and CSO of the mobile longevity game 『Dragon Village』 at Hibro. Since then, Jet5 has been established in 2020 and has been developing with an emphasis on blockchain technology and game development. Representative works include mobile MMORPG"Pixel Heroes Adventure" and are developing a social platform X (formerly Twitter)-based"Project XYworld"
CEO Kim will join Next's production TF as head of the company's production TF and oversee the design and execution of talknomics of onboarding games, and will speed up the strengthening of the game lineup in the CROSS ecosystem and establishing a blockchain-based game economy model, according to Next. CEO Kim also planned 'Immersive Tokenomics (immersive token economy) of 'Lohan 2 Global', which is scheduled to be pre-booked on the 5th.
"We will continue to recruit development talents to the blockchain. The Jet5 team will be responsible for innovating talknomics in various genres of games," said Chang Hyun-guk, CEO of Nexus.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
