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Whisper, the Web3 wallet and secure messaging platform, will present a new ecosystem built around its signature app during Korea Blockchain Week in Seoul. The company behind the app (Seoul-based EQBR Holdings Co.) has announced that its Chairman, Paulus J. Lee, who also founded Whisper, will deliver a keynote speech at 4:40 p.m. on September 30 at Grand Walkerhill, during the public conference days of September 30 and October 1.
Korea Blockchain Week runs from September 29 to October 1 at Walkerhill Hotels & Resorts. The September 29 program is the invite-only Upbit Institutional Summit, with the main conference following over the next two days.
Whisper Brings a Web3 Wallet, Messaging, In-App Swaps, and a dApp Store Into One App
Whisper is available to download for free via the Apple App Store and Google Play, and is named “Whisper MSG” in the stores themselves. The current build includes end-to-end encrypted messaging that uses private keys; a multi-chain wallet with support for more than 10 blockchains and over 100 assets; instant token swaps (which are compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine); a feed covering project alerts and Web3 news; and a curated store for DeFi, GameFi, SocialFi, and NFT dApps.
The app has been downloaded over 1.38 million times, and users can register with a unique address rather than a phone number or email. Messages are encrypted and removed after receipt is confirmed, and the product is powered by EQBR’s Equilibrium blockchain engine. Lee himself has also stated that the app is designed for everyday Web3 users.
“Most people don’t want to learn about blockchain. They want to message a friend, pay a merchant, and swap a token in one place, quickly and securely,” Lee said. “We built Whisper so those everyday actions work smoothly on-chain, without the user having to think about the chain.”
EQBR has already put the stack into commercial settings. From 2023 through 2025, Whisper handled real-time, fully on-chain peer-to-peer payments at the Jeju Food & Wine Festival on Jeju Island, in partnership with local institution Jeju Bank. Whisper’s payment system facilitated purchases and digital gift voucher redemptions at over 200 restaurants throughout the festival. During a separate demonstration, Whisper ran the same technology on a Raspberry Pi, showing that the software can operate on low-power hardware.
The blockchain technology behind Whisper is protected by US Patent No. 12,586,064 B2, which was granted to EQBR Holdings in March 2026. The system uses a micro-chain architecture and a non-competitive consensus method, allowing separate services to run independently. This design prevents one application’s heavy activity from slowing the others and, during testing, has produced confirmation times of three seconds and up to 4,500 transactions per second (TPS) in throughput on a single micro-chain.
Whisper Ecosystem Announcement Planned for September 30 in Seoul
“At Korea Blockchain Week, we’ll show the next step for Whisper: a new ecosystem built around the app,” Lee said. “We look forward to sharing it with the community in Seoul.”
Lee has over 30 years of games and digital content experience, and is considered a founding father of the sector as a whole. He produced Tiger Woods Golf 2000 at Electronic Arts, and holds a master’s degree in materials science from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
The Whisper MSG app is available for free on the Apple App Store and Google Play, with further ecosystem-related updates to come following Lee’s September 30 keynote at Korea Blockchain Week.
