Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network connecting smart contracts on various blockchains with real-world data, events, and off-chain computation. Its fundamental purpose is to enable hybrid smart contracts by providing them with secure and reliable access to external resources, thereby bridging the gap between on-chain and off-chain environments. Chainlink is recognized as an industry standard for building, accessing, and selling oracle services.
The platform offers a comprehensive suite of services to developers and enterprises. These include “Chainlink Price Feeds,” which deliver accurate and tamper-proof financial market data to DeFi applications, “Chainlink VRF” (verifiable random function) for generating provably fair randomness essential for NFTs and blockchain gaming, and “Chainlink Automation,” which provides decentralized and reliable smart contract automation. Furthermore, “Chainlink Functions” allow smart contracts to connect to any external API and run custom computations, while the cross-chain interoperability protocol (CCIP) facilitates secure data and token transfers across different blockchain networks. Chainlink Proof of Reserve offers automated verification of on-chain and off-chain reserves.
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Deloitte, a global leader in professional services, provides a wide range of audit, consulting, tax, and advisory services. Leveraging its deep industry expertise, the firm developed the Environmental and Social Impact (ESI) Platform. This platform is a sophisticated digital measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) solution that enables corporations to measure, track, and report on their ESG initiatives. Its primary function is to transform sustainability efforts into evidence-based, auditable claims, directly addressing the challenge of greenwashing by providing a clear and credible record of a company's environmental and social impact.
The ESI Platform's foundation is a strategic partnership with The Hashgraph Association. The platform is built on the Hedera public distributed ledger, utilizing its technology to not only record ESG data but also to tokenise these verified impacts. Using the open-source Hedera Guardian toolset, the ESI platform creates a transparent and immutable audit trail, allowing for the creation of quantifiable, transferable digital assets that represent real-world sustainability outcomes.
Staking Rewards is a comprehensive data aggregator and research platform focused on proof-of-stake (PoS) cryptocurrencies and their associated staking opportunities. The platform provides users with the necessary tools and information to make informed decisions regarding staking participation and yield generation.
The core service of Staking Rewards revolves around offering live, unbiased, and historical data across a wide array of PoS assets. This includes detailed metrics such as staking yields, network participation rates, and validator information. Users can track and compare different staking assets side-by-side, analyze key performance indicators, and estimate potential rewards through calculators provided on the platform.
Staking Rewards also features a verified staking provider (VSP) program. This initiative helps users identify and connect with reputable and vetted staking service providers. Additionally, the platform offers "PRIME by Staking Rewards," a feature designed to provide access to potentially exclusive or enhanced yield opportunities. Through its secure offerings, the platform serves as a central hub for individuals and institutions looking to engage in crypto staking and optimize their passive income strategies from digital assets.
Arkose Energy Corp. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Texas, It is focused on real world mining operations and utilises digital data mining solutions to fulfill its environmental commitments. One of its key focuses is on reducing flare gas and mitigating emissions by converting its oil and gas production into electricity to power its own data centers for cryptocurrency mining.
The company offers a range of services to the energy sector, including engineering, construction management, and fabrication of modular skids for various applications like test separators and gas scrubbers. It also defines itself as a data mining company, leveraging its energy production to power digital asset mining operations. This vertical integration is intended to create a more efficient and environmentally conscious approach to both energy production and cryptocurrency mining.
Arkose Energy utilises the Hedera network to bring transparency and verifiability to its operations. Data from its energy production and digital mining activities is processed through the Hedera Consensus Service. This creates an immutable and auditable log, allowing stakeholders to verify the company's emissions reduction efforts and the provenance of its energy usage for mining.
Gaimin is a Swiss-based company founded in 2018. Its vision is to create the world's most powerful decentralised supercomputer by harnessing the collective power of the gaming community.
Gaimin's core product is a free-to-download PC application that runs in the background, detecting when a user's computer is idle and then utilizing its processing power for various tasks, such as AI model training, video rendering, and blockchain computations. In return for contributing their resources, gamers are rewarded with Gaimin's native cryptocurrency, GMRX. This creates a passive income stream for gamers and provides a cost-effective solution for businesses in need of high-performance computing. The Gaimin platform also serves as a game launcher and a hub for Web3 gaming, with an integrated marketplace for NFTs and other digital assets.
Gaimin uses the Hedera network to tokenise in-game assets as NFTs, allowing players to have true ownership of their digital items. One of the first games to be integrated with this system is a version of Minecraft called Gaimcraft, where users can create NFTs that are interoperable between the Gaimin marketplace and their Minecraft inventory.