MoonPay is a financial technology company that serves as a bridge between the traditional financial system and the Web3 economy. Its core business is providing a seamless and user-friendly payment infrastructure for buying and selling cryptocurrencies and NFTs. MoonPay offers both on-ramp services, allowing users to purchase digital assets with fiat currencies, and off-ramp services, enabling them to convert crypto back into traditional money. This is facilitated through a wide range of familiar payment methods, including credit/debit cards, bank transfers, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
For businesses, MoonPay’s primary product is an embeddable widget that can be integrated directly into decentralized applications, wallets, and NFT marketplaces. This allows end-users to acquire digital assets at the point of use without having to leave the application, significantly simplifying the onboarding process and improving conversion rates for developers. The company handles all the complex backend processes, including payment processing and regulatory compliance such as know-your-customer and anti money laundering checks.
As a multi-chain platform, MoonPay supports a vast array of blockchain networks, including an official integration with Hedera. This partnership allows users to directly purchase HBAR, Hedera’s native cryptocurrency, making the ecosystem more accessible to a global audience.
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Danae is a digital art company that provides a platform for contemporary art within the Web3 space. Its primary focus is on curating and presenting high-quality digital artworks from established artists and galleries, merging traditional art world practices with new technologies.
The main service offered by Danae is its NFT marketplace, which facilitates the sale and authentication of contemporary art as non-fungible tokens. The platform's services include expert curation, ensuring that all works in its collection meet a standard of artistic excellence. A key feature is the use of blockchain technology to provide transparent and secure art authentication, making the provenance and ownership of a digital artwork easily verifiable. This allows collectors, galleries, and curators to connect and transact with a higher degree of confidence.
Danae's platform is multi-chain, with a direct integration with the Hedera network. The company utilises the Hedera Token Service (HTS) for the minting of its NFTs.
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.
Gate.io, established in 2013, is one of the first global cryptocurrency exchanges. It is headquartered in the Cayman Islands, serves over 23 million users, and is widely renowned for its extensive selection of digital assets listing over 3,800 cryptocurrencies and tokens.
It offers a comprehensive trading experience which includes spot, margin, and futures trading alongside leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Beyond active trading, the platform provides numerous ways to earn through "Gate Earn," which features staking, lending, structured products, and auto-investment plans. It also features an initial exchange offering (IEO) launchpad for new projects called "Gate.io Startup."
A key component of its ecosystem is GateToken (GT), its native utility token, which offers users trading fee discounts, VIP tier benefits, and participation in governance and exclusive events. Gate.io has also developed “GateChain,” its own public blockchain focused on asset security and decentralized trading, which is EVM-compatible.
The Gate platform also features a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, advanced trading bots, copy trading, and a payments service called “Gate Pay.”
EtaSwap is the first decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator on the Hedera network. Its primary purpose is to consolidate liquidity from various decentralized exchanges within the Hedera ecosystem into a unified interface. This allows users to trade Hedera-based digital assets more efficiently, circumventing the need to navigate multiple platforms to find the best terms.
The platform functions by identifying the most advantageous prices and optimal trading routes across integrated DEXs for a given token swap. Key features include route optimization, direct integration with multiple Hedera DEXs, and a user-friendly interface designed to simplify the trading process. EtaSwap offers the potential for better execution rates and reduced slippage on their trades.
EtaSwap aggregates liquidity from prominent Hedera DEXs including SaucerSwap , Pangolin, HeliSwap, and HSuite. It serves as a single entry point for token swaps on Hedera, offering users seamless access to the combined liquidity of these platforms and is open to integrating additional exchanges.