Lotte Group, a South Korean conglomerate, introduced at CES 2025 that it has chosen the Arbitrum blockchain to energy its metaverse platform, “Lotte Caliverse.”
Lotte Caliverse is a digital world constructed utilizing Epic Video games’ Unreal Engine 5. The platform permits customers to discover a digital metropolis, store with real-world supply choices, play video games, and interact with content material in a extra immersive approach — replicating the sensation of being bodily current.
The platform will characteristic well-known manufacturers comparable to Givenchy, MCM, 7-Eleven, and even the music pageant “Tomorrowland.”
Steven Goldfeder, CEO of Arbitrum’s growth workforce, emphasised that the blockchain will supply environment friendly and seamless efficiency for the metaverse, making certain customers have a clean expertise.
This collaboration highlights Lotte’s continued concentrate on its digital tasks. The corporate launched a prototype of its metaverse at CES 2023 in Las Vegas. Quickly after, it introduced a partnership with KT Alpha, a subsidiary of Korea Telecom, one in all South Korea’s main telecom suppliers, to include digital actuality (VR) content material into Caliverse.
Regardless of its push into the metaverse, Lotte’s latest historical past with blockchain know-how has been combined. In June final 12 months, the corporate shut down its NFT platform after two years, citing declining gross sales and challenges within the broader business. This choice adopted comparable strikes by corporations like Starbucks and GameStop.
