ITCEN Global said on Thursday its first-quarter consolidated revenue totalled 3.29 trillion won.

That was up about 100 percent from a year earlier. The company said its Web3 division, led by Korea Gold Exchange, and its IT services business, including ITCEN CTS and ITCEN Entec, drove growth across the board.

Operating profit rose 193 percent to 99.2 billion won, while net profit climbed 178 percent to 72.7 billion won.

ITCEN Global said it achieved its highest-ever first-quarter performance in 2026, following record results in 2025, helped by rapid growth in its gold trading platform business centred on Korea Gold Exchange. It stressed that growth momentum, supported by rising proceeds from gold sales, was raising expectations for stronger full-year 2026 results.

Its Web3-based future finance business is also taking shape step by step. With its top-ranked physical gold distribution business combined with the IT, logistics and risk management capabilities of its digital affiliates, ITCEN Global is expanding gold trading beyond offline distribution into digital financial infrastructure based on real-time pricing and mobile channels.

Its IT services division is focusing on pursuing digital transformation across the public and private sectors, backed by a business portfolio centred on artificial intelligence and solutions.

Its Web3 business plans to accelerate the digital transformation of physical gold through platforms including Korea Gold Exchange Digital Asset's Geumbang Geumbang. It also plans to integrate the storage, distribution and use of gold into a single financial experience through its real-world asset-based, gold-backed account app, Gold Standard Wallet. It also plans to seek an exchange expansion within this year and build a digital future finance ecosystem in earnest by tokenising real assets, including gold.

ITCEN Global said it is conducting joint South Korea-Japan stablecoin research with JPYC, Japan's largest yen-pegged stablecoin operator, and plans to build a cross-border payment standard linking the yen, gold and the won.

Kang Jin-mo (강진모), chief executive of ITCEN Global, said the Korea Gold Exchange-led gold trading platform business again drove growth in the first quarter of 2026, extending its record performance. He said this reflected progress in the company's Web3 business and the results of building an RWA-based future finance platform. He said the company will lead the global RWA market by launching Gold Standard Wallet, issuing gold and silver tokens within the year, listing on overseas virtual asset exchanges, and conducting joint South Korea-Japan stablecoin research with JPYC to secure a cross-border payment standard. He added it aims to realise a 10 trillion won digital gold ecosystem within five years and sustain strong growth.