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.
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ValueNature is a South Africa-based organization working to create a new class of nature-based commodity credits. The company's mission is to accelerate the recognition of nature's value by creating a transparent and efficient market for biodiversity and natural carbon credits.
ValueNature's core service is the facilitation of nature-based investment projects. They are actively developing projects across the Global South that are designed to generate both biodiversity and carbon credits. The company's methodology involves using a combination of on-the-ground sensor technologies and remote sensing data to measure and verify the positive impacts of these projects on local ecosystems. The goal is to create a robust and evidence-based system for quantifying and valuing nature, with a commitment to ensuring that 80% of the revenue from the sale of credits goes back to the local custodians of the land.
ValueNature is building its platform on the Hedera Guardian, an open-source toolset for creating and managing digital environmental assets. This allows for the tokenization of their biodiversity and carbon credits, creating a transparent and auditable record of their entire lifecycle.
Hsuite is a comprehensive platform offering tools and services designed to enhance interaction and development on the Hedera network. It provides a unified user experience for individuals, developers, and businesses engaging with Hedera's distributed ledger technology (DLT).
The services include secure HBAR and HTS token management through integrated wallet functionalities, tools for the creation and administration of HTS tokens, and interfaces for deploying and interacting with Hedera Smart Contracts. Hsuite also provides non-fungible token (NFT) management, including minting and trading capabilities, alongside integrations for decentralized identity (DID) applications. For businesses, it offers payment gateway solutions to facilitate transactions using Hedera-based assets.
Hsuite’s streamlined common operations provide an entry for new users as well as robust resources for developers building applications on Hedera. Its flagship feature, Smart-Nodes, are highly customizable programs deployed inside virtual images which can be hosted and decentralized through cloud computing environments such as Google cloud and Amazon Web Services.
Vancelian is a financial services application that combines traditional finance (TradFi) expertise with blockchain technology to offer high-potential investment and savings solutions. Its stated mission is to make investing and saving accessible by providing expertly designed, high-performing financial products. It is registered with France's Financial Markets Authority (AMF) as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) in compliance with French and European regulations.
The Vancelian platform provides several storage products, including "Flex Vault" for daily interest, "Blockchain Vault" for Bitcoin mining returns, and "Term Vault" which combines Bitcoin mining with DeFi strategies. It also facilitates automated portfolio management, trading services for more than 90 cryptocurrencies, and dedicated IBAN services upon registration as well as a Vancelian Visa card.
Vancelian features seamless integration with Hedera Hashgraph with additional security through know-your-customer (KYC), multi-party computation (MPC) technology in partnership with Fireblocks, and regular penetration tests. It is general data protection regulation (GDPR) compliant.
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.