DB Financial Investment Selected as Preferred Bidder for Busan Blockchain Project... To Launch Carbon Reduction STO Platform

DB Financial Investment has been selected as the preferred bidder for building an STO (Security Token Offering) platform in the blockchain-specialized business project led by Busan Metropolitan City, marking an expansion of its digital asset business.

On May 11, DB Financial Investment announced that it was chosen as the preferred bidder in the "2026 Blockchain-Specialized Cluster Development Project Open Call," which is being promoted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Internet & Security Agency, and implemented by Busan Metropolitan City and Busan Technopark.

Accordingly, the company will officially launch the "Busan-Specialized Blockchain-Based Carbon Reduction Security Token (STO) Platform Development and Commercialization Project," with plans to commence work at the end of May 2026.

This project will use energy-saving facilities installed at key logistics centers in the Busan area as underlying assets. The core of the initiative is to verify the business feasibility by implementing the carbon reduction revenue rights generated here as a digital fractional investment model based on STO.

DB Financial Investment aims to securitize carbon assets, which were previously managed mainly by institutions, through a blockchain platform, and to verify both the technical utility and market potential of developing them into investment products that anyone can trade. The company is also focusing on ensuring stability and tradability so that these products can be established as practical investment instruments.

To this end, DB Financial Investment will collaborate with Marinachain, a Busan-based marine finance IT specialist. Marinachain possesses carbon emissions monitoring and asset evaluation technology, as well as blockchain infrastructure capabilities. The two companies plan to conduct a joint technology demonstration by linking carbon reduction performance data to the distributed ledger and processing large-scale transactions without delay.

In this process, DB Financial Investment will be responsible for designing the STO public offering structure and handling the overall financial structuring in accordance with the Capital Markets Act framework.

To reinforce its business operations and collaboration with related institutions, the company recently completed its move to the 63rd floor of the Busan International Finance Center (BIFC). The space will also house the preparatory corporation of the Korea Exchange-Koscom consortium (KDX), which has received preliminary approval to operate an over-the-counter fractional investment exchange. DB Financial Investment plans to cooperate with various related organizations to contribute to the establishment of Busan's digital finance infrastructure and the activation of blockchain-specialized businesses.

Jusik Lee, Head of the New Digital Asset Business Division at DB Financial Investment, stated, "This project is an important initiative to verify the effectiveness of an innovative fundraising model that combines Busan-specialized tangible assets and blockchain technology. We will continue to work closely with Busan Metropolitan City to build a successful reference and lead the next-generation digital capital market."

Through the Busan blockchain-specialized project, DB Financial Investment is taking the lead in building an STO platform based on carbon reduction assets, accelerating the expansion of the digital capital market and the blockchain finance ecosystem.

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