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<p>Linekong Interactive, a Beijing-based gaming and film production company listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (HKEX), has made a strategic move by earmarking $15 million for investment in projects designed to build on the Bitcoin network.</p><h2 id="header-0">The ‘BTC Next’ fund</h2><p>Wang Fang, the founder of Linekong, <a href="https://twitter.com/wangfeng_0128/status/1722173964439769435" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">took</a> to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday to announce the establishment of the “BTC Next” fund. The fund’s primary goal is to fast-track the development of emerging projects within the Bitcoin ecosystem, spanning a wide range of areas, including asset issuance protocols, trading markets, expansion initiatives, virtual machines, NFT’s real-world asset (RWA) and GameFi.</p><p>As part of its initial efforts, Linekong Interactive plans to actively engage in research and investment activities within the Bitcoin network’s ecological assets. The firm will also make its investment portfolios publicly available, enabling transparent visibility into its chosen projects within the Bitcoin ecosystem.</p><h2 id="header-1">Building on Bitcoin</h2><p>The idea of building out Web3 offerings on the Bitcoin network is one that has attracted considerable debate in recent years. Traditionally, Bitcoin has been recognized for its limited programmability in comparison to newer blockchains like Ethereum.</p><p>Many see that as a feature and benefit. For the most part, Bitcoin has remained largely unchanged since its inception in 2008. A myriad of alternative blockchain projects started to emerge due to the frustrations of developers in wanting to have greater programmability options.</p><p>However, the past year has seen significant developments within the Bitcoin ecosystem, thanks to the introduction of novel data storage methods known as Ordinals, Inscriptions and BRC-20 Bitcoin tokens modeled on Ethereum’s ERC-20 standard.</p><h2 id="header-2">Growing momentum</h2><p>In May, Singapore’s OmniBOLT, a project that develops solutions on Bitcoin’s layer-2 network environment, <a href="https://medium.com/&#64;coinness.gl/omnibolt-to-support-brc-20-tokens-on-lightning-471085949a7d" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">outlined</a> that it will support BRC-20 tokens on Lightning Network. In the same month, crypto exchange OKX <a href="https://medium.com/&#64;coinness.gl/okx-wallet-to-support-brc-20-tokens-and-bitcoin-ordinals-2c03f00edda7" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">announced</a> its support for Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC-20 tokens.</p><p>Established in 2007 as an online gaming company in Beijing, Linekong Interactive made its debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2014. Wang Fang, prior to founding Linekong, served as the Vice President of Software Development at Kingsoft Software, a prominent Chinese information technology conglomerate.</p><p>In 2018, Wang Fang stepped down as CEO of Linekong to dedicate his focus to blockchain technology. During this period, he initiated multiple projects implicating NFTs, DeFi and Bitcoin mining. In 2022, following an invitation from Linekong’s board of directors, he returned as CEO with the objective of achieving a more seamless integration of Linekong products with the emerging world of Web3.</p><p>One community member provided a nuanced take on why there has been less development on Bitcoin on X today, <a href="https://x.com/BitPaine/status/1722048282338214348?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">stating</a>:</p><p>“It turns out you can actually do a lot of cool things within the constraints of #bitcoin’s code, but VCs [venture capitalists] weren’t interested in funding these things because they couldn’t cash out on the sale of unregistered security tokens. Fiat incentives at work.”</p><p>Linekong Interactive’s $15 million investment in the Bitcoin ecosystem reflects a growing trend of interest in expanding the capabilities and applications of the Bitcoin network in spite of the incentives that venture capital firms may have followed in the overarching crypto space in the past.</p>

Chinese tech firm pours $15 million into Bitcoin fund

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