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.
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.
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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Amplify World is the company behind Amplify.link, a Web3 platform designed to empower creators, brands, and communities to build their own decentralized loyalty and engagement ecosystems. Moving beyond traditional "link-in-bio" services, Amplify.link provides a suite of no-code tools that allow users to launch their own branded digital assets and rewards marketplaces.
Built on the Hedera network, Amplify.link leverages the Hedera Token Service (HTS) to allow any creator to easily mint their own fungible or non-fungible tokens. These tokens function as loyalty points that fans can earn by completing specific tasks designed to drive engagement, called “Quests.” Community members can then spend their earned tokens in a custom rewards marketplace curated by the creator, which can offer exclusive content, merchandise, event access, or other unique perks.
Amplify.link aims to shift the power dynamic in the creator economy by providing accessible and scalable infrastructure, giving creators direct control over their community engagement and monetization channels.
ValueNature is a South Africa-based organization working to create a new class of nature-based commodity credits. The company's mission is to accelerate the recognition of nature's value by creating a transparent and efficient market for biodiversity and natural carbon credits.
ValueNature's core service is the facilitation of nature-based investment projects. They are actively developing projects across the Global South that are designed to generate both biodiversity and carbon credits. The company's methodology involves using a combination of on-the-ground sensor technologies and remote sensing data to measure and verify the positive impacts of these projects on local ecosystems. The goal is to create a robust and evidence-based system for quantifying and valuing nature, with a commitment to ensuring that 80% of the revenue from the sale of credits goes back to the local custodians of the land.
ValueNature is building its platform on the Hedera Guardian, an open-source toolset for creating and managing digital environmental assets. This allows for the tokenization of their biodiversity and carbon credits, creating a transparent and auditable record of their entire lifecycle.
The Lumos Labs Hatch Accelerator is a program dedicated to fostering the growth of early-stage Web3 startups in India. Run by Lumos Labs, a Singapore-based innovation management firm, the accelerator is designed to identify and support promising projects that are building the next generation of decentralized applications.
The four-month program provides a comprehensive support system for participating startups. This includes mentorship from industry experts, a series of workshops covering various aspects of business and technology, and access to a wide network of investors and partners. The primary goal of the accelerator is to help these startups refine their products, achieve product-market fit, and scale their operations in the competitive Web3 landscape.
The Hatch Accelerator is a direct collaboration between Lumos Labs and the HederaHBAR Foundation, and it is specifically focused on expanding the Hedera ecosystem. The HederaHBAR Foundation provides the grant funding for the accelerator, demonstrating a significant commitment to nurturing the developer community and driving the adoption of the Hedera network in the rapidly growing Indian Web3 market.
The Hyperledger Fabric plugin for Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) enables Hyperledger Fabric networks to utilize the Hedera public network for transaction ordering. This plugin allows developers to replace or augment traditional Fabric ordering services such as Raft or Kafka with HCS, leveraging Hedera's asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant (aBFT) consensus mechanism.
The core function of the plugin is to have Fabric orderer nodes submit endorsed transactions to a designated topic on the Hedera Consensus Service. HCS then assigns these transactions a unique, immutable, and verifiable consensus timestamp and sequence. Fabric orderers subscribe to this topic via a Hedera mirror node, retrieve the ordered transactions, and use this sequence to consistently form blocks and propagate them within the private Fabric network.
By integrating HCS, Hyperledger Fabric applications gain several benefits including enhanced trust and decentralization in the ordering process, public verifiability of transaction sequences for increased auditability, and potentially reduced operational complexity compared to managing a traditional private ordering service.