Flutterwave is a U.S.-based, Africa-focused fintech company founded in 2016. Its mission is to build a modern payment infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy, simplifying commerce for businesses of all sizes across the continent and other emerging markets. The company provides a unified platform that allows merchants to make and accept payments without the complexities of navigating fragmented financial systems.
It offers a comprehensive suite of products and services through a single API. For enterprises and small businesses, this includes payment processing for various methods such as credit cards, mobile money, and bank transfers through its Flutterwave Checkout and Payment Links products. It also provides tools to create online stores (Flutterwave Store), issue invoices, and manage cross-border payouts. For individuals, its Send App facilitates international remittances, allowing users to easily transfer money to and from Africa.
Flutterwave has partnered with Hedera to integrate USDC stablecoin settlements on the Hedera network.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Merkle Science is an artificial intelligence-powered blockchain analytics, threat detection, and predictive risk platform. It provides a comprehensive suite of solutions to detect, investigate, and prevent illicit on-chain activities.
Its detection and mitigation tools go beyond simple identification and blacklisting to provide actionable intelligence for a broad range of clients. These include cryptocurrency exchanges, DeFi platforms, NFT marketplaces, financial institutions, and government and law enforcement agencies.
Through its “Compass" and “Tracker” tools, Merkle Science offers predictive risk monitoring and regulatory compliance (KYC/AML/CFT) for automated forensic investigations enabling cross-chain tracing capabilities. Its “Onchain Pulse” service also provides a deep data platform for AI-powered analytics.
Merkle Science’s Know Your Blockchain Business (KYBB) platform leverages comprehensive risk profiles that combine proprietary on and off-chain data to facilitate analytical data-based vendor due diligence.
Expanding beyond analysis and mitigation, Merkle Science also offers training and certification programs for professionals conducting operations in the digital asset space. These include MiCar compliance certification for stablecoin issuers, AML and CFT certification, and cryptocurrency investigation certifications.
Hashgraph Application Studio is a specialized no-code/low-code development platform designed to build and deploy enterprise-grade decentralized applications (dApps) on the Hedera network. It is the result of a strategic partnership between Joget Inc., an open-source application development firm, and The HBAR Foundation. The studio essentially provides a Hedera-centric version of the Joget platform, aiming to democratize dApp development by making it accessible to users with limited or no coding expertise.
The platform’s core functionality revolves around a visual, drag-and-drop interface. This allows users to design application workflows, create user interfaces, and manage data without writing extensive code. A key feature is the "Hedera Ledger Pack," a pre-built integration that simplifies complex interactions with Hedera’s native services. Through simple configuration, users can perform on-chain actions such as creating accounts, transferring HBAR and HTS tokens, minting and burning NFTs, and logging data to the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS).
By abstracting the technical complexities of blockchain, the Hashgraph Application Studio significantly accelerates the development lifecycle for Hedera-based projects.
TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company founded in 2018, with headquarters in San Francisco. It specializes in helping financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies detect and investigate cryptocurrency-related fraud and financial crime. TRM's mission is to build a safer financial system by blending blockchain data with advanced analytics.
The company's core services are delivered through a comprehensive risk management platform that includes solutions for transaction monitoring, wallet screening, and forensics. Key products include TRM Transaction Monitoring, which provides real-time risk scoring for AML (Anti-Money Laundering) compliance, and TRM Forensics, which offers tools to trace the source and destination of crypto funds. The platform supports over 100 blockchains and 200 million digital assets, providing a cross-chain view of transactions.
TRM Labs’ full suite of compliance and risk management tools supports HBAR, the native cryptocurrency of Hedera, as well as other assets issued on the network. This integration allows organizations building on Hedera to leverage TRM's platform to detect financial crime, meet regulatory requirements, and ensure the safety of their applications.