The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) provides post-trade clearing and settlement services that ensure the stability and efficiency of trading activity. As one of the premier financial market infrastructures over the past 50 years, DTCC processes trillions of dollars in securities transactions daily, offering a range of services that automate, centralize, and standardize the processing of financial transactions to mitigate risk and reduce costs.

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DTCC’s Digital Assets is a business unit dedicated to bridging the gap between traditional financial infrastructure and the emerging digital asset ecosystem. Its key services include the DTCC Digital Launchpad, an open ecosystem for collaboration on digital asset adoption, DTCC ComposerX, an end-to-end platform for managing the entire lifecycle of digital assets, and the Collateral AppChain, which provides scalable, tokenized collateral management.

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As a founding premier member of the Linux Foundation's LF Decentralized Trust alongside Hedera, DTCC is actively involved in shaping the future of open-source, decentralized technologies. 

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Banxa is a global financial technology company specializing in payment processing. Its services provide interconnectivity between the traditional financial (TradFi) system and the digital asset economy. It currently processes more than $10 billion in payments annually for a wide range of clients including Visa, MasterCard, Kraken, and dozens more. 

The company’s core service suite offers solutions for the facilitation of fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat conversions allowing businesses to accept and process cryptocurrency payments while enabling users to purchase digital assets. This allows for the seamless integration of cryptocurrency payments, trading, and compliance solutions enabling one-stop global expansion into more than 150 countries serviced and unlocking new revenue streams for businesses.

Banxa also provides robust compliance tools, including know your customer (KYC) and anti money-laundering (AML) solutions with more than 45 licenses. It also offers trading and wallet infrastructure through APIs and SDKs, enabling businesses to integrate cryptocurrency buying, selling, and holding functionalities directly into their own platforms via the Hedera blockchain.

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Unibright is a German software development company founded in 2017 specializing in enterprise blockchain solutions. Its mission is to simplify distributed ledger technology (DLT) integration for businesses.

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The core of Unibright's offering is the Unibright Framework, a "no-code" platform that enables the visual design and automated generation of smart contracts and other blockchain-based business logic. The firm also offers Unibright ONE, a service platform that synchronizes data across various blockchains and legacy IT systems. Another key component of Unibright’s operations is Baseledger, a public, council-governed blockchain that is designed for enterprise-grade performance and data privacy.

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In 2021, Unibright integrated the Hedera Token Service (HTS) into its Freequity platform, a 360-degree solution for tokenization that includes issuance, regulatory compliance, and liquidity services. This integration allows Unibright's enterprise clients to issue and manage tokens on the Hedera network, taking advantage of its high throughput, low and predictable fees, robust security, and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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