External Handoff Ingest

Entity: Credit Suisse First Boston Date: 2026-04-20T00:50:14.974Z Source: External LLM (manual handoff)

Overall Assessment

LINE NEXT is a private Korean Web3/NFT subsidiary of LINE with substantial 2023-2024 equity funding from Crescendo Equity Partners and Hanmi Semiconductor Chairman Kwak, focused on DOSI marketplace on Finschia blockchain; public records show standard private-company transparency with no U.S. regulatory filings or anomalous signals.

Stage Notes

facts

• status: success
• items: 6
• summary: LINE NEXT Corporation is a South Korea-based Web3/NFT venture of LINE (affiliate of LY Corporation), focused on global NFT platform DOSI (launched January 2024) built on the Finschia public blockchain; it raised USD 140 million in December 2023 (largest Asian Web3 round that year) and had 5.5 million users with 470,000+ transactions as of late 2023.

sources

• status: success
• items: 5
• summary: Official LINE Corp press release provides primary investment and operational details; Korean and English mainstream reporting confirms Hanmi Chairman stake and Crescendo portfolio linkage; corporate site confirms Web3 focus.

connections

• status: success
• items: 4
• summary: LINE NEXT maintains documented ownership, investment, and governance ties to its corporate parent, major PE investor Crescendo, the Finschia Foundation, and Hanmi Semiconductor (via chairman stake and shared Crescendo ecosystem).

public_data_ingest

• status: success
• items: 3
• summary: As a private South Korean company, LINE NEXT shows no listings or mandatory disclosures in U.S. or Korean public corporate databases; the sole referenced SEC filing (2018) yields no verifiable EDGAR match for this entity.

Ingest Summary

• Facts created: 6
• Sources created: 5
• Connections created: 2 (2 skipped)
• Stages marked: 4