Curios is a creator-focused platform designed to overhaul digital content distribution by enabling creators to sell their work directly to fans while retaining 100% of their sales revenue. The platform supports a wide array of digital content, including music, audiobooks, ebooks, videos, comedy works, digital artwork, and event sales and ticketing.
It offers a direct purchasing model for fans allowing them to buy and permanently own content without recurring subscription fees. Fans can consume owned content via the Curios website or mobile apps, both of which support offline access. Curios emphasizes a transparent connection where creators own their fan data and intellectual property while maintaining compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The Curios platform provides tools for NFT creation and sales, cross-platform smart contract deployment, and white-label marketplace solutions. This allows creators to offer verifiably unique items and engage fans with unlockable content and secure airdrops. It also provides increased accessibility by enabling NFT purchases with fiat currency and traditional credit cards.
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Korbit is a South Korean cryptocurrency firm base in Seoul and launched in 2013. It was the first exchange to launch a Bitcoin-Korean Won (BTC/KRW) market. It’s primary features include facilitating buying, selling, and secure storage of a broad spectrum of digital assets, encompassing major cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum, alongside numerous altcoins, primarily through KRW pairings.
Beyond these core trading functions, Korbit users can engage in crypto-to-crypto trading, utilize the platform’s dedicated digital asset wallet, and participate in staking services to earn rewards on their holdings. Korbit also operates a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace and provides tools such as automated trading, recurring investment options, and bundled asset purchases.
Korbit employs employs robust security measures including multi-factor authentication and substantial cold wallet storage. The exchange is committed to full compliance with South Korea's stringent financial regulations, encompassing comprehensive anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) procedures and collaboration with domestic financial institutions such as Shinhan Bank for verified real-name accounts.
NOWPayments is a non-custodial cryptocurrency payment gateway that was founded in 2019. Its mission is to make it easy for businesses to accept a wide variety of cryptocurrencies, with a focus on providing a seamless and secure payment experience.
The core of NOWPayments' service is a platform that allows merchants to accept over 300 different cryptocurrencies, including stablecoins, and to receive payments in their preferred fiat currency. The platform offers a range of integration options, including APIs, e-commerce plugins, and donation widgets. A key feature of the platform gives users the ability to offer automatic coin conversion, which allows merchants to accept a variety of cryptocurrencies without having to manage multiple wallets. The platform also offers a mass payments solution, which enables businesses to send payments to multiple recipients in various cryptocurrencies.
NOWPayments has a direct integration with the Hedera network, providing full support for HBAR and other Hedera-based tokens. This allows merchants using the NOWPayments platform to accept HBAR as a form of payment.
AdsDax is a digital advertising platform founded in 2013 that aims to solve endemic problems in the advertising industry, such as fraud and a lack of transparency, by removing intermediaries and fostering direct, value-based connections between brands and consumers.
The core of AdsDax's service is a self-serve advertising platform that allows brands to create, buy, and sell advertising in a transparent environment. A key feature of their model is the use of incentivised experiences, where consumers are rewarded with digital assets for their engagement with advertising content. This approach, which leverages AI for campaign optimization, is designed to move beyond superficial metrics such as "likes" to drive authentic engagement and build brand loyalty. The platform supports a variety of ad formats, including interactive and video ads, and is utilised by major advertising agencies.
AdsDax uses the Hedera Consensus Service to track and verify millions of advertising events such as impressions, clicks, and conversions in real-time. Each event is recorded on the Hedera public ledger, creating an immutable and auditable trail that provides a single source of truth for advertisers and publishers. This allows for the automated and near-instantaneous settlement of payments to publishers and rewards to consumers using cryptocurrencies.
Numbers Protocol is a decentralized network designed to establish trust and authenticity in digital media. Its primary mission is to address the challenges of misinformation and copyright infringement by creating a verifiable record of content provenance from creation to publication. It provides a transparent and immutable history for digital assets, including images, videos, and audio files.
At its core, Numbers Protocol offers a suite of tools and services for creators and developers. This includes the "Capture App," which allows users to register their digital creations, embedding them with unique identifiers and contextual metadata. The "Numbers Blockchain" serves as a specialized distributed ledger for indexing these assets and their histories. The protocol also features a "Verify Engine," a reverse-image search tool enhanced with AI, enabling users to trace the origin and modification history of digital media.
By leveraging blockchain technology and decentralized storage, including the Hedera blockchain network, Numbers Protocol enables users to create on-chain proof of their digital media, secure ownership, and track usage.