이투데이에 따르면 웹3 컨설팅 기업 디스프레드 리서치가 국내 투자자들로부터 가장 있기 있는 가상자산으로 스택스(STX)를 꼽았다. 2위는 세이(SEI), 3위는 리플(XRP), 4위는 이캐시(XEC), 5위는 시바이누(SHIB)로 집계됐다. 디스프레드는 올해 1월 1일부터 8월 25일까지 가상자산 정보분석 플랫폼 코인마켓캡 기준 시가총액 상위 100위 이내의 가상자산 중 국내 5대 거래소에 상장된 가상자산을 분석 대상으로 설정했다. 한편 비트코인은 29위, 이더리움(ETH)은 35위, 솔라나(SOL)는 25위로 나타났다.

"올해 국내 최고 인기 가상자산은 스택스"

According to Etoday, Web3 consulting firm Disspread Research selected Stacks (STX) as the most popular virtual asset among domestic investors. SEI (SEI) ranked 2nd, Ripple (XRP) 3rd, Ecash (XEC) 4th, and Shiba Inu (SHIB) ranked 5th. Disspread analyzed virtual assets listed on the top 5 domestic exchanges among the top 100 virtual assets by market capitalization according to the virtual asset information analysis platform CoinMarketCap from January 1 to August 25 of this year. Meanwhile, Bitcoin ranked 29th, Ethereum (ETH) 35th, and Solana (SOL) 25th.

"The most popular virtual asset in Korea this year is Stacks"

Over the past six months, I've gone from being an observer of Web3 to entering the payment industry. Now, I've chosen to stop and cease working on Web3 payments.

This isn't a retreat after a failure, but rather a judgment and adjustment made after truly getting involved. In these past six months, I've traveled to Yiwu, Shuibei, Putian, and even Mexico, seeing how payments are actually implemented in the most prominent places mentioned in reports. I've also been involved, building a Web3 payment MVP, taking over accounts, developing Web3 payment tools, and trying to run my imagined path from the first step to the last.

But the further I went…

An entrepreneur's account: From beginning to end, why I stopped developing Web3 payments.

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