Shinhan Bank is one of South Korea's largest and oldest commercial banks, with a history dating back to 1897. It offers a comprehensive range of financial services, including personal and corporate banking, foreign exchange, wealth management, and investment banking with a focus on digital innovation. It is a member of the Hedera Governing Council.
Its parent company is the Shinhan Financial Group, a major financial holding company in Korea with a significant domestic market share and an expanding international presence across Asia, Europe, and North America.
Shinhan Bank offers a blockchain-based loan management platform through a partnership with the Small Business Market Promotion Corporation (SEMAS). It has also launched a blockchain credentialing system for verifying loan documents and an integrated blockchain-based Decentralized ID (DID) for its mobile banking app, SOL.
Additionally, Shinhan Bank previously partnered with Standard Bank to develop a cross-border remittance system using stablecoins built on the Hedera distributed blockchain network. This enables the issuance and trading of stablecoins pegged to national currencies such as the South Korean won and South African rand utilizing Hedera's Token Service (HTS) and Consensus Service (HCS).
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IDEMIA is a multinational technology company specializing in identity and security solutions. Headquartered in France, the company provides a broad range of products and services to clients in over 180 countries, including governments, enterprises, and financial institutions. Its core mission is to enable citizens and consumers to interact, pay, connect, travel, and access public or private spaces securely in both the physical and digital realms.
Leveraging deep expertise in biometrics including fingerprint, facial recognition, iris recognition, cryptography, and artificial intelligence, IDEMIA develops solutions across three primary divisions: secure transactions, public security, and smart identity. Related offerings include secure payment technologies and card issuance, connectivity solutions for mobile operators and IoT devices, and the creation of physical and digital identity credentials such as passports, ID cards, and mobile IDs. Furthermore, IDEMIA provides systems for border control, public safety, and access control.
The company's solutions are integral to numerous critical activities, from facilitating secure financial transactions and ensuring trusted communication networks to managing citizen identities and securing travel and public spaces.
Gaimin is a Swiss-based company founded in 2018. Its vision is to create the world's most powerful decentralised supercomputer by harnessing the collective power of the gaming community.
Gaimin's core product is a free-to-download PC application that runs in the background, detecting when a user's computer is idle and then utilizing its processing power for various tasks, such as AI model training, video rendering, and blockchain computations. In return for contributing their resources, gamers are rewarded with Gaimin's native cryptocurrency, GMRX. This creates a passive income stream for gamers and provides a cost-effective solution for businesses in need of high-performance computing. The Gaimin platform also serves as a game launcher and a hub for Web3 gaming, with an integrated marketplace for NFTs and other digital assets.
Gaimin uses the Hedera network to tokenise in-game assets as NFTs, allowing players to have true ownership of their digital items. One of the first games to be integrated with this system is a version of Minecraft called Gaimcraft, where users can create NFTs that are interoperable between the Gaimin marketplace and their Minecraft inventory.
Tribe Accelerator is a Singapore-based, government-backed blockchain accelerator that is focused on supporting later-stage startups, helping them bring their innovative products to market by providing a "hyperconnected platform" of multinational corporations, government agencies, and top technology companies.
Tribe's core service is its accelerator program, which takes a product-focused approach to helping startups scale. The program provides participating companies with a wide range of support, including dedicated masterclasses on topics like fundraising and marketing, technical mentorship from industry experts, and exclusive networking opportunities.
Tribe has partnered with Hedera to support the growth of the Hedera ecosystem in Singapore and the broader Asian market. This includes providing mentorship and resources to startups that are building on the Hedera network, as well as working to connect these startups with Tribe's extensive network of corporate and government partners. This collaboration is a key part of Tribe's mission to drive the widespread adoption of blockchain technology and foster innovation in the Web3 space.
Hyphen is a technology firm dedicated to quantifying the true value of natural capital in real-time through building trust and accountability within carbon markets. It endeavors to make carbon markets a consistently viable and transparent financial instrument.
Hyphen’s operations feature an advanced atmospheric-based digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (aMRV) solution. This system features proprietary aMRV software that precisely quantifies greenhouse gas (GHG) flux data using on-site scientific instrumentation such as Eddy Covariance Towers.
The Hyphen platform ensures security through its incorporation of digital ledger technology (DLT) on the Hedera blockchain network. It leverages Hedera's immutable ledger to create secure, auditable records for GHG data and the entire MRV lifecycle. This is crucial for ensuring the verifiability of environmental data, enhancing the integrity of carbon credits, and addressing historical challenges of opacity in carbon accounting.
Hyphen’s offerings, including geospatial GHG data streams and Enterprise dMRV solutions, primarily target project developers and global carbon offsetters. By integrating its scientific MRV approach with Hedera’s capabilities, Hyphen aims to deliver verified climate intelligence and to foster a global financial system that effectively supports sustainable practices.