Liithos is a AAA gaming and entertainment studio founded by high-profile industry veterans, including former PlayStation executive Michael Mumbauer and John Garvin, the creative director and writer known for blockbuster titles including Days Gone and Syphon Filter. The studio develops narrative-driven, transmedia intellectual properties that merge compelling storytelling with the capabilities of Web3 technology.
The studio’s debut project is Ashfall, a post-apocalyptic open-world game set in the Pacific Northwest. It is designed to begin as a single-player, story-focused experience that will later evolve to include multiplayer PvP and PvE elements. Liithos has chosen the Hedera network as the foundational public ledger for Ashfall and its future projects. This integration will power the game's economy, allowing players to truly own their in-game assets—such as weapons, gear, and cosmetics—as digital collectibles.
Supported by The HBAR Foundation, Liithos emphasizes that its approach is not "play-to-earn" but "play-and-own," focusing on enhancing the core AAA gaming experience rather than financial speculation.
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Fireblocks is an enterprise-grade platform that provides secure infrastructure for moving, storing, and issuing digital assets. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, it has become a leading provider of digital asset custody, transfer, and settlement technology for a wide range of financial institutions, including banks, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges.
The core of Fireblocks' service is its institutional-grade platform that combines multi-party computation (MPC) with hardware isolation to create a highly secure environment for managing digital assets. The platform also features the Fireblocks Network, a secure and efficient network for connecting with over 1,800 liquidity partners, trading venues, and counterparties.
Fireblocks is deeply integrated with the Hedera network, providing comprehensive support for HBAR and other Hedera-based assets. It also supports the Hedera EVM, enabling clients to interact with Hedera-based smart contracts and decentralized applications. Furthermore, the Hedera Guardian, an open-source platform for ESG assets, can be integrated with Fireblocks, allowing for the secure, remote signing of transactions.
LimeChain is a blockchain development and consulting company that provides end-to-end services for startups and enterprises seeking to build on Web3 technologies. LimeChain offers deep expertise across a wide range of protocols, delivering solutions that include custom dApp development, DeFi product engineering, smart contract creation and audits, and strategic blockchain consulting. It works with clients to navigate the complexities of the decentralized web, from initial proof-of-concept and architecture design to full-scale implementation and support.
The company has established itself as a key development partner within numerous blockchain ecosystems, including a significant and long-standing relationship with Hedera. LimeChain has been instrumental in building core functionalities and tools for the Hedera network. Their collaborative work includes leading the development of the Hedera Token Service (HTS) and creating an open-source demonstration of the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) integrating with enterprise systems such as Microsoft Dynamics.
Furthermore, LimeChain was a key technical partner in developing Hashport, a pioneering interoperability solution that uses HCS to bridge assets between Hedera and other major networks.
Logstash is an open-source, server-side data processing pipeline from Elastic NV. It ingests data from multiple sources simultaneously, transforms it, and then sends it to a chosen destination. It is a core component of the Elastic Stack, often used for centralizing and processing logs, metrics, and other event data.
In the context of the Hedera blockchain network, Logstash can be integrated using tools such as the logstash-output-hedera plugin. This specific Java Output Plugin is designed for the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS). It enables Logstash to send processed events or logs directly to an HCS topic. Users configure the plugin by specifying details including their HCS topic ID, an operator account ID, and the associated private key for that operator account. An optional submit key used for topic creation can also be provided, along with the target Hedera network, which can be "mainnet" or "testnet".
By using this plugin, applications can leverage Logstash's data collection and transformation capabilities to then record events onto the Hedera public ledger via HCS. This creates an immutable, verifiable, and timestamped log of the data, enhancing transparency and auditability for any system employing this integration.
Pyth Network is a first-party financial oracle network that supplies extremely low-latency real-world price data across crypto, equities, forex, commodities, and ETFs. In February 2024 the Pyth catalog of over 400 price feeds was launched on Hedera via a partnership with the HBAR Foundation, giving developers permission-less access to real-time data and confidence intervals to improve DeFi risk management. HLiquity, a decentralized borrowing protocol on Hedera, became the first application to integrate these feeds to ensure accurate pricing and proper collateralization.