April 24th 2018; Cambridge, UK and Seoul, Korea
Online gaming platform provider turns to device security leader Trustonic to provide protection.
The online gaming industry continues to grow, making it an attractive proposition for investors and developers. Unfortunately, this popularity also makes it a potentially lucrative target for hackers and fraudsters. As a shield against this threat, GameHub, the leading international mobile gaming platform, is utilizing best-in-class security technology from Trustonic to protect its PlayCoin cryptocurrency wallet.
PlayCoin is a blockchain-based cryptocurrency created by GameHub. It was formed to build a strong, transparent and profitable relationship between users, game creators, social influencers and advertisers. By using the Trustonic Application Protection (TAP) solution, the user’s private key is protected by a unique combination of software and hardware in end-users’ devices, providing the best possible security for PlayCoin, irrespective of the device used. There are already more than 1.5 billion devices which embed Trustonic’s Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)* hardware security technology. TAP also ensures that those devices without a TEE automatically leverage the most sophisticated software protection available, including white box cryptography and code protection techniques.
Dennis Kim, CEO of GameHub, commented: “The PlayCoin ecosystem is diverse and international. From the outset, we need to ensure that all those who interact with PlayCoin are secure, otherwise they will not place trust in our platform. Separate security tokens and OTP generators are cumbersome and, whilst they offer security, they also deliver a poor customer experience. To select a security solution, we looked at various wallets and tried to crack their security. The one protected by TAP was the only one that we couldn’t break. By using Trustonic, we not only address the security problem, but we also enhance the user experience, which is a critical element to our service. This will enable us to deliver simpler, faster and safer transactions.”
“More and more developers are recognizing the value of the TEE,” added Ben Cade, CEO of Trustonic. “Delivering security while maintaining or improving the user experience is critical for innovators such as GameHub and Trustonic is the only company giving service providers easy access to hardware security in mobile devices. This is yet another interesting use case and I am sure that there are many more to come”
About GameHub
GameHub is an online gaming ecosystem that aims to revolutionize traditional online game industry by applying blockchain technology to streamline mobile game downloads and digital marketing to eliminate middlemen. GameHub created PlayCoin as a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency to use within the GameHub ecosystem helping both game developers and social influencers. For developers, GameHub provides a new game platform for indie game developers to easily launch and promote their games while earning more profits compared to monopolized giant platforms. Social influencers and game users can earn rewards by playing and promoting the game through SNS media channels (social mining). GameHub will launch PlayShop, an online game portal for indie game developers in June of 2018.
About Trustonic
Trustonic is a venture formed in 2012 by blue chip leaders in the semiconductor industry (ARM) and digital security (Gemalto). Trustonic’s mission is to protect, enrich and simplify people’s digital lives by enabling optimum security on all smart connected devices and associated services and applications. Trustonic has already pioneered the adoption of advanced Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) security technology into the world’s leading mobile devices, such as those from Samsung, vivo, OPPO, Xiaomi, LG, Meizu and Gionee, and has working solutions today underpinning Samsung Knox, Samsung Pay, Alipay and Symantec VIP.
