{"id":46392,"date":"2025-09-08T18:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=46392"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:46:41","slug":"upbit-parent-files-giwa-trademarks-amid-rumors-of-new-blockchain-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=46392","title":{"rendered":"Upbit Parent Files \u2018GIWA\u2019 Trademarks Amid Rumors of New Blockchain Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The parent company of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, Dunamu, has filed several trademark applications for what is rumored to be a new blockchain project under the name \u201cGIWA.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kipris.or.kr\/khome\/search\/searchResult.do\">trademark applications<\/a>, which have been circulating on social media, including stylized letters next to what could be the logo of the project.<\/p>\n<p>The rumors seem to have originated on microblogging platform X, where<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anna__yoon\/status\/1965065027272298677\"> one user<\/a> commented that a friend attending the Upbit Developer Conference (UDC) heard the blockchain is going to be its own blockchain network. <\/p>\n<p>Since then, several posts have amplified the rumors, yet no official confirmation has come from Upbit or its parent company Dunamu.<\/p>\n<p>A website tied to the name of the rumored blockchain, GIWA, is <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HBLVPUF0xk\">already live <\/a>and currently features a countdown suggesting that the network could be announced within the next few hours. The countdown appears below text that reads \u201cComing soon.\u201d The countdown coincides with UDC going live, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/udc.dunamu.com\/en\">event<\/a> is scheduled for Sept. 9 in Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Several other cryptocurrency exchanges have backed their own blockchain networks. These include Coinbase\u2019s layer-2 Base, OKX\u2019s OKChain, Binance\u2019s initial support for the BSC Chain, which later rebranded to BNB Chain, and others. <\/p>\n<p>More recently, Stripe and Paradigm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/09\/04\/stripe-paradigm-unveil-tempo-as-blockchain-race-for-high-speed-stablecoin-payments-heats-up\">unveiled Tempo<\/a>, a blockchain for high-speed stablecoin payments. The project is backed by a list of heavyweight partners, which include Anthropic, OpenAI, Revolut, and Deutsche Bank.<\/p>\n<p>CoinDesk has reached out to Upbit and Dunamu for comment but hasn\u2019t heard back at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The parent company of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, Dunamu, has filed several trademark applications for what is rumored to be a new blockchain project under the name \u201cGIWA.\u201d The trademark applications, which have been circulating on social media, including stylized letters next to what could be the logo of the project. The rumors seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-46392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}