KuCoin is a major global cryptocurrency exchange established in 2017 and based in Seychelles. In keeping with its nickname "The People's Exchange," it serves over 40 million users across more than 200 countries and offers users interactivity with over 900 digital assets and a huge selection of trading pairs.
KuCoin provides a comprehensive suite of trading services, including spot, margin, and futures trading with leverage options. Beyond active trading, the platform features “KuCoin Earn,” which allows users to generate passive income through staking and lending. It also supports an active IEO (Initial Exchange Offering) platform called KuCoin Spotlight, giving users access to new token launches.
The exchange is known for its user-friendly interface featuring integrated tools such as advanced artificial intelligence-powered trading bots for automated strategies and pre-market trading for early access to tokens.
KuCoin's native token, KCS (KuCoin Token), plays a central role in its ecosystem, offering benefits such as trading fee discounts, daily bonuses, and participation rights in exclusive platform events. The platform also facilitates fiat-to-crypto transactions through P2P markets and third-party payment providers, supporting a wide array of fiat currencies. It also offers an integrated Web3 wallet and loyalty program.
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Tune.FM is a decentralized music streaming platform and NFT marketplace built on the Hedera network. It’s designed to upend and modernize the music industry's traditional compensation model. Its core mission is to enable transparent, secure, and instant artist payments while fostering direct connections with fan communities.
The Tune.FM platform is built on the Hedera blockchain network and utilizes the Hedera Token Service (HTS) for its native JAM token ($JAM), which relies on embedded Hedera features to facilitate real-time micropayments for artists, who are compensated for every second their music is streamed.
Tune.FM’s "play-to-earn" model features high speed processing with comparatively low fees, thus potentially allowing artists to retain a significantly greater portion of their earnings when compared to traditional streaming platforms.
Beyond streaming, Tune.FM features an integrated NFT marketplace where artists can mint and sell digital music collectibles including songs, albums, artwork, and exclusive fan experiences such as backstage passes via JAM tokens. For listeners, Tune.FM offers a platform for new music discovery, direct artist interactions and support, and a way to earn JAM tokens through fan engagement.
Shift Markets is a financial technology company that provides "Crypto-as-a-Service" solutions for businesses operating in the digital asset and forex markets. Headquartered in New York, the it has a global presence, helping clients launch and manage their own trading platforms.
The company's core services revolve around providing the infrastructure and technology needed to operate a digital asset exchange. Their flagship product is a white-label crypto exchange platform, which allows businesses to quickly launch their own spot and derivatives trading venues. This includes a customizable front-end interface, a full-featured back-office for managing operations, and access to deep liquidity through their proprietary engine, Nexus.
Shift Markets is directly integrated with the Hedera ecosystem through a partnership with the Hedera Foundation. The company has incorporated Hedera-based assets into its Shift Dashboard and the Nexus liquidity engine. This integration makes HBAR and other Hedera-native assets available across its network of over 70 exchanges and institutional clients.
Venly is a blockchain technology provider that creates tools and services to help businesses and developers integrate Web3 functionality into their applications. Headquartered in Belgium, the company's mission is to make blockchain technology accessible to everyone by providing user-friendly and scalable solutions.
Its offerings include a Wallet-as-a-Service that allows for easy integration of secure, custodial wallets into any application, complete with social logins to simplify user onboarding. Venly also provides an NFT API for minting and managing digital assets, and an NFT Marketplace solution that can be integrated into any platform. These services are designed to be blockchain-agnostic, providing a high degree of flexibility for developers.
Venly has a direct integration with the Hedera network, offering its full suite of tools and services to developers building on Hedera. This partnership, supported by the HederaHBAR Foundation, allows for the seamless creation of wallets, as well as the minting and trading of NFTs on the Hedera network using Venly's tools.
EarthID is a UK-based company founded in 2018 that has developed a decentralised identity and verifiable credentials platform. The company's mission is to combat identity fraud, enhance data privacy, and build customer trust in an increasingly digital world.
The core of EarthID's service is a platform that enables organizations to issue and verify digital credentials in a secure and frictionless manner. This includes solutions for Digital KYC, which streamlines customer onboarding, and passwordless authentication, which enhances security by removing the need for traditional passwords. The platform is designed to be compliant with global data regulations including GDPR.
EarthID's platform is built on the Hedera network and uses the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) to create an immutable and auditable log of all identity-related transactions, ensuring a high level of trust and transparency. The integration with Hedera is fundamental to EarthID's ability to offer a scalable and secure decentralised identity solution that can be used by organizations and individuals around the world.