Jdot

· Co-founder @holohive_
· Your unfair advantage in Korea
· prev. @MBMVentures @MaplestoryU

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

@0xYano koreamaxxing

[Yano @0xYano]

4,000 Telegram views can look disappointing next to 40,000 X impressions.

But they are typically worth way more.

Telegram views are highly vetted, people who know are more interested and have more money to spend.

Compared to x views which are often random and do not convert.

Do not sleep on tg.

[Yano @0xYano]

korea alone could have filled @jumperapp's sale three times over.

$10.3M committed. the cap was $3M.

- four months before we started: 76th of 82 projects in korea
- sale day to allocations: #1, ahead of solana and hyperliquid

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

@0xYano 101

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

Before: Goal of $1M in commitments for Korea

After: $10.3M committed

Koreamaxxing

[Holo Hive @HoloHive_]

A recent look into how we helped @jumperapp

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

@HoloHive_ @jumperapp make the jump

[Holo Hive @HoloHive_]

A recent look into how we helped @jumperapp

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

1 in 10 bidders in Jumper's sale came from Korea

Whats crazier?

Korea accounted for about 1 in 5 dollars bid

[Yano @0xYano]

How we helped drive $10.3M in bids for Jumper's solana:Aybt5BWuW6kMNt7Jk1UmSgLzpEKev5pEnh82TA5rpump token sale:

Jumper’s initial goal for Korea was $1M in commitments, by the time the sale closed Korea had committed $10.3M

1 in 10 bidders in Jumper's sale came from Korea
whats crazier- they accounted for about 1 in 5 dollars bid

our job in Korea was to explain what Jumper had become.

it had grown beyond bridging but local coverage still leaned heavily on farming a possible airdrop.

during creator onboarding calls we found that while 85% of creators already knew Jumper, virtually all of them still saw it purely as a bridge

we worked with creators to explain the wider product, then build toward the sale.

We used those calls to shape the Korean rollout: explain what Jumper had built, show how to use it, and help readers understand the sale terms and how participation worked.

That meant giving people something they could act on:
> how to find an Earn position, fund it cross-chain, and track it
> how to trade tokenized assets
> how to evaluate the token sale terms and allocation rules

we even saw creators participate alongside the coverage, with four publicly sharing that they applied for the sale.

Before buying more reach, help people assess what you've built.

When you give a market the full picture, you turn an outdated brand impression into real understanding, and real participation.

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

@0xYano make the jump

[Yano @0xYano]

Count users and the Korean market looks small, count bids and you see how it can create big change. Jumper’s sale:
> 938 people. About 10% of everyone who bid.
> $10.3M committed. About 21% of the money.

Small slice of the crowd but twice the relative size of cash. koreamaxx

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

@0xYano 😭

[Yano @0xYano]

Just got back from korea, there were two KBWs and most people dont even know it

One was on the floor, the one everyone has access to - the one every one sees

then there is the other one, the hidden one, the one in the invite-only rooms. If you only did the first, the week looked quiet and boring however the reality is far from it

The expo was in Korea’s Wall Street, trad fi, banks, securities firms, payment companies etc. suits

The ppl that decide which products get built or which tokens get listed were in the invite only rooms, not the expo floor. They usually had a fully booked calendar and didnt really go to the conference floor.

If your calendar was only the official programme, you definitely missed the important parts of kbw

They had specific things to show. Checkout flows, merchant settlement, cross-border tests. The conversation if youre in crypto you already know has moved past whether blockchain might be useful.

Banks are going full throttle into crypto, stablecoins, stripe all show this:

Who accepts the payment?
How does the merchant get paid?
What happens between the two?

Korean institutions want a won stablecoin. Banks are already running internal tests, all are aiming for q1 2027

If you’re still waiting for an official announcement you’re already late.

Trading-product builders were in the same rooms.

Tokenization is not the hard part anymore. “We can tokenize this” was the start of the conversation. The harder questions i heard were who buys it, where it trades, and whether anyone can borrow against it.

Korea’s version ran both ways. Global assets into Korea, and Korean stocks made easier for overseas investors. DeFi isnt dead, it kept coming back through lending and liquidity.

Issuing an asset is one step. Giving people a reason to hold it and use it is another. The banks have the products. The rooms have the users.

Retail remains strong. The institutional focus of kbw did not erase the trading crowd. Live competitions still drew people.

Plasma ran cashback at Olive Young, so visitors had a reason to try a crypto card while shopping.

Paid posts were not the examples people named.

Privacy came up as a trading concern. People didn’t want others seeing their positions and trading ahead of them.

Most western teams flew in, met each other, and called it Korea. But the audience that forms opinion sits in private Telegram rooms. Those do not open because you bought a badge. If the relationship was not there before the week, the week did not create it… and this is what most people miss.

However the week showed progress, and how much is still being tested as an industry.

Gg.

If youre reading this and need some advice on korea, pls shoot me a dm, always happy to talk korea w crypto teams

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

There were 2 KBWs and most people dont even know it

[Yano @0xYano]

Just got back from korea, there were two KBWs and most people dont even know it

One was on the floor, the one everyone has access to - the one every one sees

then there is the other one, the hidden one, the one in the invite-only rooms. If you only did the first, the week looked quiet and boring however the reality is far from it

The expo was in Korea’s Wall Street, trad fi, banks, securities firms, payment companies etc. suits

The ppl that decide which products get built or which tokens get listed were in the invite only rooms, not the expo floor. They usually had a fully booked calendar and didnt really go to the conference floor.

If your calendar was only the official programme, you definitely missed the important parts of kbw

They had specific things to show. Checkout flows, merchant settlement, cross-border tests. The conversation if youre in crypto you already know has moved past whether blockchain might be useful.

Banks are going full throttle into crypto, stablecoins, stripe all show this:

Who accepts the payment?
How does the merchant get paid?
What happens between the two?

Korean institutions want a won stablecoin. Banks are already running internal tests, all are aiming for q1 2027

If you’re still waiting for an official announcement you’re already late.

Trading-product builders were in the same rooms.

Tokenization is not the hard part anymore. “We can tokenize this” was the start of the conversation. The harder questions i heard were who buys it, where it trades, and whether anyone can borrow against it.

Korea’s version ran both ways. Global assets into Korea, and Korean stocks made easier for overseas investors. DeFi isnt dead, it kept coming back through lending and liquidity.

Issuing an asset is one step. Giving people a reason to hold it and use it is another. The banks have the products. The rooms have the users.

Retail remains strong. The institutional focus of kbw did not erase the trading crowd. Live competitions still drew people.

Plasma ran cashback at Olive Young, so visitors had a reason to try a crypto card while shopping.

Paid posts were not the examples people named.

Privacy came up as a trading concern. People didn’t want others seeing their positions and trading ahead of them.

Most western teams flew in, met each other, and called it Korea. But the audience that forms opinion sits in private Telegram rooms. Those do not open because you bought a badge. If the relationship was not there before the week, the week did not create it… and this is what most people miss.

However the week showed progress, and how much is still being tested as an industry.

Gg.

If youre reading this and need some advice on korea, pls shoot me a dm, always happy to talk korea w crypto teams

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

@0xYano gg

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

@0xYano The classic linkedin mic picture

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

@0xYano easily

[Yano @0xYano]

easily the top thing u can do for a project is koreamaxxx. its very simple, get addicted to treating korea as a multiplier, ignore follower counts, find the voices who move the market, speak where they speak, and understand decisions are made before they ever hit x.

[Yano @0xYano]

koreamaxxed with @jeg6322 in seoul for kbw.

we spoke about why teams miss the mark in korea: they buy a KOL list and expect the posts to do the rest.

getting korea right means knowing where your project fits, how to introduce it credibly, and how to build lasting demand. that takes local research, trusted relationships and ongoing execution.

dm me if you are trying to push your project in korea

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

@richiemcilroy theyre sleeping

[Jdot @JdotHamilton]

@0xYano @jeg6322 the goats