The Korea Exchange has launched its Korea Start - up Market , where the shares of start - ups can be traded on the open market . The KSM service has applied this technology by using Coinstack, Blocko’s proprietary blockchain-based development platform. Blocko , a Korean start - up , provided its blockchain technology to the market for document and identity authentication via its development platform called Coinstack . Coinstack has been used by Korea ’s JB Bank , IBM , KISA , Samsung and others . The start - up received $ 1.3 m in series A round funding from Korea Venture Investment in July of this year .
The Korea Exchange has launched its Korea Start - up Market , where the shares of start - ups can be traded on the open market . Blocko , a Korean start - up , provided its blockchain technology to the market for document and identity authentication via its development platform called Coinstack . Coinstack has been used by Korea ’s JB Bank , IBM , KISA , Samsung and others . The start - up received $ 1.3 m in series A round funding from Korea Venture Investment in July of this year .