Banxa is a global financial technology company specializing in payment processing. Its services provide interconnectivity between the traditional financial (TradFi) system and the digital asset economy. It currently processes more than $10 billion in payments annually for a wide range of clients including Visa, MasterCard, Kraken, and dozens more.
The company’s core service suite offers solutions for the facilitation of fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat conversions allowing businesses to accept and process cryptocurrency payments while enabling users to purchase digital assets. This allows for the seamless integration of cryptocurrency payments, trading, and compliance solutions enabling one-stop global expansion into more than 150 countries serviced and unlocking new revenue streams for businesses.
Banxa also provides robust compliance tools, including know your customer (KYC) and anti money-laundering (AML) solutions with more than 45 licenses. It also offers trading and wallet infrastructure through APIs and SDKs, enabling businesses to integrate cryptocurrency buying, selling, and holding functionalities directly into their own platforms via the Hedera blockchain.
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Shinhan Bank is one of South Korea's largest and oldest commercial banks, with a history dating back to 1897. It offers a comprehensive range of financial services, including personal and corporate banking, foreign exchange, wealth management, and investment banking with a focus on digital innovation. It is a member of the Hedera Governing Council.
Its parent company is the Shinhan Financial Group, a major financial holding company in Korea with a significant domestic market share and an expanding international presence across Asia, Europe, and North America.
Shinhan Bank offers a blockchain-based loan management platform through a partnership with the Small Business Market Promotion Corporation (SEMAS). It has also launched a blockchain credentialing system for verifying loan documents and an integrated blockchain-based Decentralized ID (DID) for its mobile banking app, SOL.
Additionally, Shinhan Bank previously partnered with Standard Bank to develop a cross-border remittance system using stablecoins built on the Hedera distributed blockchain network. This enables the issuance and trading of stablecoins pegged to national currencies such as the South Korean won and South African rand utilizing Hedera's Token Service (HTS) and Consensus Service (HCS).
Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) is a technology consulting company founded in 1993 and based in St. Louis, Missouri. It specializes in designing and building custom software solutions for enterprise clients across various industries, including defense, aerospace, financial services, and healthcare.
OCI's services span the entire software development lifecycle, from strategy and design to implementation and support. The company offers expertise in a wide range of technologies, including real-time and embedded systems, cloud computing, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT). A significant part of their work involves helping organizations modernize their legacy systems and adopt new technologies to improve efficiency and drive innovation. They also create and sponsor multiple open-source projects, most notably Grails, a popular web application framework based on the Groovy programming language.
Object Computing leverages its extensive experience in enterprise software to help organizations build and integrate solutions on the Hedera network. OCI provides consulting, training, and development services specifically for Hedera, enabling businesses to utilize the platform for applications requiring high throughput, security, and auditable data logging.
Maalexi is an AI-powered B2B marketplace for agricultural products dedicated to helping small and medium-sized businesses trade across borders. With offices in the US, UAE, and India, Maalexi is building a global digital ecosystem for the food and agriculture sector.
The company's platform provides a range of services designed to de-risk and streamline international trade. These include an AI-driven sales engine, AI-powered quality inspections, and "SMART Track & TRACe" for real-time shipment monitoring. Maalexi also offers innovative solutions such as "Warehouse Stock & Sell," where they purchase and store goods, and "Procurement at Origin," which allows buyers to acquire products directly from the source.
Maalexi uses the Hedera Consensus Service to create an immutable and verifiable log of all business transactions and documents. This includes everything from digitally signed legal contracts and invoices to quality and quantity acceptances. By hashing these critical documents and recording them on the Hedera public ledger, Maalexi provides a high degree of security and transparency, which in turn helps to build trust between buyers and sellers.
HLiquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol built and deployed on the Hedera blockchain network. It offers users a method to take out loans against their HBAR collateral and enables HBAR holders to access liquidity in the form of a USD-pegged stablecoin without selling held HBAR assets.
The core mechanism allows users to deposit HBAR into a smart contract to mint the protocol's stablecoin to obtain interest-free loans with a one-time borrowing fee. HLiquity operates on a system of over-collateralization, requiring borrowers to maintain a collateral ratio above a specified minimum to secure their debt.
A key component of the protocol is the Stability Pool, where users can deposit the HLiquity-issued stablecoin. These deposits are used to absorb debt from liquidated positions, and Stability Pool providers are compensated with a share of the liquidated HBAR collateral. HLiquity aims to provide a capital-efficient and censorship-resistant borrowing solution within the Hedera DeFi ecosystem.