Bithumb Holds In-House AI Contest, Identifies 107 Cases of AI Use

Cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb identified 107 cases in which AI was used to innovate work practices.

Bithumb announced on October 26 that it held its first in-house artificial intelligence (AI) contest, “AI Tips, Thumb?,” for 110 employees from August 17 to 31. The contest was designed to improve the organization’s overall performance and work efficiency by having employees share the AI know-how they had acquired on the job.

The judging consisted of a document review and two rounds of presentations. Thirteen entries that passed the document review were presented, and in the final round, seven judges evaluated them based on “level of AI use” and “organizational impact.”

The first prize went to Ko Juho, a team leader in the IT division, who developed a tool to monitor Claude Code token usage and cache performance in real time. The second prize was awarded to Eom Seongryeol, a manager in the IT division, for using AI to automate repetitive tasks performed during service outages. The third prize went to five entries that drove organizational change, including an AI-powered information-leak monitoring platform.

The prizes are 10 million won for first place, 5 million won for second place, 3 million won per entry for third place, and 500,000 won per entry for fourth place. Winners of participation prizes will receive gift certificates worth 100,000 won.

A Bithumb representative said, “This contest showed that efforts to use AI can bring about positive change by embedding AI DNA throughout the organization. We will continue to expand related infrastructure and foster a culture of innovation in the company so employees can actively use AI across various areas of work to achieve new results.”

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