Blockchain-based BORA aims to create a decentralized entertainment platform focused on distributing digital contents while incentivizing community members. BORA uses sidechain technology to allow for highly-scalable dApps to be suitable for the platform. BORA has a team of 12 developers based in Korea that are working on releasing the mainnet version of BORA Island in Q1 of 2019. For now, we will have to suffice with the BORA testnet that was released in October 2018.
During their recent meetup in South-Korea’s capital of Seoul, BORA announced that they have already lined up at least five gaming developers that will implement BORA into their game(s). BORA tokens can be used to purchase in-game items or BORA Shell can be rewarded for playing games or fulfilling small tasks.
BORA intends to launch their Ethereum based ERC20 tokens before the end of 2018. We can expect an announcement any day now.
This week I want to take a look at the team behind BORA. I’m focused on the project’s core team members.
Core team members
CEO Geyhan Song
The CEO of BORA, Geyhan Song has extensive experience as a senior software developer. After he finished his Masters’ Degree in Computer Science at Sogang University, he started working at Samsung Electronics as a software developer. After four years he moved on to NHN to develop their gaming platform. He oversaw the development of gaming platform ‘Purple’ and he was in charge of the NHN platform development in the US. In 2012, Song started working at Smilegate as a business developer of the mobile game platform Stove. Song became the CEO of WAY2BIT and BORA in November 2017.
CSO Kei Yune
Yune finished his Bachelors Degree in Economics at Seoul National University in 2004. According to BORA’s blog post about the team, Yune has 20 years of experience in developing and launching PC, online and mobile games. In 2010, Yune started as the executive producer of Hangame poker, a platform that reached around 400 billion KRW in sales per annum. At 4:33, Yune led the business for ‘Blade,’ a mobile action RPG that at one point reached #4 in the Google Play Global Top.
CMO Cindy Lee
Lee is specialized in providing marketing services. In the past she served as a marketing officer and team leader at five well-known companies such as Neowiz Games, NCSOFT, and Smilegate. Besides being a marketing specialist, Lee also has management experience as she was the CSO of Double 8 Games, a subsidiary studio of DoubleU.
CTO Igoo Lee
Igoo Lee finished his education at Hyung Hee University before he went on to becoming an expert in the field of designing and operating optimized systems for large transactions. After gaining experience as an Oracle DB tuning consultant for an enterprise company, Lee moved to a dotcom company where he helped create the infrastructure. At NeoWiz Games, Lee worked as a DB infrastructure operations of well-known game titles such as Crossfire and FIFA Online. He also served as the Technical Director at 4:33, a mobile game publisher.
VP of Engeneering Kyoungwook Cheon
As a Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, Kyoungwook Cheon has a strong background in research in multimedia and communication network security. In 1998 he founded Cellab [Ltd.] and developed FreeChal game portal. He played a part in the development of Neowiz and Hangame online game platforms. Before joining Way2Bit as a Director of Blockchain Research Institute in 2018, he worked as a CTO at 4:33 Creative Lab.
For more information about BORA visit their official channels:
Website: https://www.boraecosystem.com/
Telegram: https://t.me/boraofficial
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bora_ecosystem
Medium: https://medium.com/@BORA_Ecosystem
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