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.
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Meeco is a data privacy and digital identity company founded in 2012. Headquartered in Australia, with offices in the UK and Belgium, Meeco's mission is to empower individuals with control over their personal data, enabling them to get value in exchange for what they share.
Meeco's core product is the Secure Value Exchange (SVX) platform, a suite of infrastructure tools for managing verifiable credentials, decentralised identity, and secure data storage. This includes a white-label digital wallet, a vault for end-to-end encrypted data, and services for managing the entire lifecycle of digital credentials. A key application of this technology is Trustury, an open-source interface designed to bring transparency to ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) markets by allowing for the visualization and auditing of sustainability tokens.
Meeco has developed a Decentralised Identifier (DID) SDK for Hedera and uses the Hedera Consensus Service to create verifiable logs. The Trustury platform is built to support the Hedera Guardian, an open-source tool for digitizing and auditing sustainability projects.
BlockScience, founded in 2017, is an R&D, engineering, and analytics firm that specializes in the design and analysis of complex systems. With an interdisciplinary team of engineers, data scientists, and social scientists, the company applies advanced mathematical and computational engineering to model, simulate, and design resilient socio-technical systems for a diverse range of clients, including for-profit companies, non-profits, and government organizations.
The firm's core service is providing a rigorous, data-driven approach to designing and validating economic and governance mechanisms. A key product in their toolkit is cadCAD, an open-source Python-based modeling framework they developed. This tool allows for the creation of "digital twins" of complex systems, enabling clients to simulate and test new business models, market designs, or automated smart contract logic before deployment. This approach is used to analyse system safety, resilience, and sustainability under various conditions.
BlockScience has a direct collaboration with Hedera and the Hedera Foundation to design and model innovative market mechanisms for renewable energy and other environmental assets. This work includes the development of Automated Regression Market Makers (ARMMs), a novel price discovery mechanism for semi-fungible assets like energy credits.
Zero Hash is a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) crypto-as-a-service infrastructure provider that empowers businesses to integrate digital assets from the Hedera blockchain network directly into their customer experiences. It offers a comprehensive, API-driven solution for custody, liquidity, and regulated settlement for cryptocurrencies and stablecoins.
It provides a crucial on-ramp for Hedera ecosystem, enabling business clients to natively integrate Hedera Hashgraph into their platforms quickly and easily. This allows businesses to offer their customers the seamless ability to send, receive, store, and convert fiat, crypto, and stablecoins within a single cross-platform capable engine powered by Zero Hash's infrastructure.
Zero Hash is committed to compliance and regulatory coverage. It provides a “regulatory stack as a service” model and is licensed to operate in numerous territories including the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and many more. This allows businesses to launch compliant crypto and stablecoin products with support for a wide array of assets across numerous blockchains and geographies and advances the utility of the native Hedera HBAR and HTS tokens.
Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) is a technology consulting company founded in 1993 and based in St. Louis, Missouri. It specializes in designing and building custom software solutions for enterprise clients across various industries, including defense, aerospace, financial services, and healthcare.
OCI's services span the entire software development lifecycle, from strategy and design to implementation and support. The company offers expertise in a wide range of technologies, including real-time and embedded systems, cloud computing, machine learning, and the Internet of Things (IoT). A significant part of their work involves helping organizations modernize their legacy systems and adopt new technologies to improve efficiency and drive innovation. They also create and sponsor multiple open-source projects, most notably Grails, a popular web application framework based on the Groovy programming language.
Object Computing leverages its extensive experience in enterprise software to help organizations build and integrate solutions on the Hedera network. OCI provides consulting, training, and development services specifically for Hedera, enabling businesses to utilize the platform for applications requiring high throughput, security, and auditable data logging.