Union Finance is a non-KYC peer-to-peer permissionless protection marketplace that allows users to mitigate risks associated with decentralized finance (DeFi) through the purchase of downside protection services. It also offers users the option to provide liquidity to the platform for the purpose of earning premiums from those seeking protection. Union’s state-of-the-art protocol has integrated capabilities built to secure multi-layer risks across smart contracts and protocols in a single-stop scalable system.

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Union Finance’s platform offers distinct products to address different risk scenarios. These include C-OP (collateral optimization and volatility protection), a service aimed at mitigating the risks associated with holding cryptocurrencies over extended periods, and U-CDS (Union crypto default swaps), which provide protection against specific adverse events such as smart contract exploits and oracle attacks.

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The firm’s services are targeted towards individuals and entities involved in the DeFi space who require tools to safeguard their investments and strategies over both short and long-term programs.

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Union Finance has established a range of partnerships across the blockchain and DeFi ecosystem, including UniLend, Waves, Avalanche, BlockScience, Kleros, and Router, as well as the Hedera blockchain network.

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Hex Trust is a fully-licensed and insured digital asset custodian that provides bank-grade infrastructure and services for the Web3 ecosystem. Its mission is to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the digital asset economy by providing a secure and compliant platform for institutional investors.

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The company offers a comprehensive suite of services built around its proprietary platform, Hex Safe. This includes institutional-grade custody for a wide range of digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, security tokens, and NFTs. In addition to custody, Hex Trust provides staking services, DeFi access, and brokerage and financing solutions. This integrated approach allows their clients, which include financial institutions, asset managers, and Web3 projects, to securely manage and grow their digital asset portfolios.

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The Hex Safe platform supports HBAR and all tokens issued on the Hedera Token Service (HTS), making it an official custodian for the Hedera ecosystem. This partnership enables institutional clients to securely hold and stake HBAR, as well as to custody and manage HTS-based tokens. Hex Trust also serves as a strategic custodian for TOKO, a tokenization engine built on Hedera in collaboration with DLA Piper.

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Chainabuse is a community-powered scam reporting platform operated by blockchain intelligence company, TRM Labs. It was launched in 2022 to give users a means to report and track fraudulent activity across the crypto ecosystem. The platform's mission is to make the digital economy a safer place by providing a centralized and public forum for sharing information about scams, hacks, and other malicious activities.

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The core service of Chainabuse is a free-to-use, multi-chain reporting tool. It allows anyone to submit reports on illicit activities, including malicious crypto addresses, websites, and social media accounts. These reports are made public in a searchable database, creating a valuable resource for the community to proactively check for potential threats before engaging in transactions. By consolidating reports and enabling users to contribute additional information, Chainabuse helps to identify and expose larger fraud networks.

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Chainabuse is a founding Hedera partner. Its platform supports the reporting of scams on the Hedera network, allowing users to flag malicious activity involving HBAR or other Hedera-based assets. This provides a critical layer of security for the Hedera community, enabling users to make more informed decisions and helping to protect the ecosystem from bad actors.

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Diamond Standard creates a novel, investable, and tradeable asset class through the tokenization of real, investment-grade IGI (International Gemological Institute) and GIA (Gemological Institute of America) certified diamonds. 

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These commodities are investment products combining real diamonds with digital blockchain technology. They offer investors a standardized unit of diamonds in the form of “Coins” and “Bars.” These can be traded for liquidity or held as investments secured by both the physical commodity and the immutable Hedera blockchain.

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Each Coin and Bar contain an equivalent, optimized set of natural diamonds that add up to the same geological scarcity of carat weight, color, and clarity. Every sample and every commodity are public, and are designed to trade in lockstep market price.

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Inside each asset is a military-grade wireless (NFC) encryption chip, enabling authentication, instant transactions, and remote audit.

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Diamond Standard seeks to provide investors with a secure and accessible way to invest in diamonds at convenient, lower entry point via digital tokens called “Carats” issued from physical commodities.

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