Standard Bank Group, located in South Africa, is Africa's largest bank by assets and among the longest operating financial institutions on the continent having been founded more than 150 years ago. The Group offers a comprehensive suite of financial products and services via the Hedera blockchain including a wide array of payment processing solutions for both individuals and businesses.
The firm’s primary functions include facilitating transactional banking, lending, asset finance, merchant solutions, trade finance, and international payment services for its business and enterprise clients. Standard Bank also provides insurance and asset management services.
As a member of the Hedera Governing Council, Standard Bank provides enterprise-grade, secure transactions and digitized cross-border trade processes on the immutable Hedera distributed blockchain ledger.
Standard Bank is one of the leading Hedera-based service providers utilizing Hedera's Token Service (HTS) and Consensus Service (HCS). The primary focus of this collaboration is to improve transaction efficiency and reduce costs associated with international cross-border payments.
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HashAxis is a global NFT marketplace built on the Hedera network, designed for buying, selling, and discovering digital collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It leverages the Hedera Token Service (HTS) to mint, manage, and trade NFTs and is supported by the HBAR foundation.
A key advantage of HashAxis is its utilization of Hedera's low and predictable transaction fees, high-speed performance (capable of 10,000 transactions per second), and carbon-negative footprint. This makes creating, buying, and selling NFTs comparatively more accessible and environmentally friendly. HashAxis also supports native Hedera functionalities including “atomic swaps” for secure peer-to-peer trading and on-chain royalty payments, which provide automatic compensation to creators for secondary sales.
HashAxis integrates “Filecoin” for decentralized NFT storage and is one of the only NFT marketplaces to offer a streamlined, no-code interface for users to engage with digital collectibles across various categories, including art, profile pictures and more.
Hashgraph Application Studio is a specialized no-code/low-code development platform designed to build and deploy enterprise-grade decentralized applications (dApps) on the Hedera network. It is the result of a strategic partnership between Joget Inc., an open-source application development firm, and The HBAR Foundation. The studio essentially provides a Hedera-centric version of the Joget platform, aiming to democratize dApp development by making it accessible to users with limited or no coding expertise.
The platform’s core functionality revolves around a visual, drag-and-drop interface. This allows users to design application workflows, create user interfaces, and manage data without writing extensive code. A key feature is the "Hedera Ledger Pack," a pre-built integration that simplifies complex interactions with Hedera’s native services. Through simple configuration, users can perform on-chain actions such as creating accounts, transferring HBAR and HTS tokens, minting and burning NFTs, and logging data to the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS).
By abstracting the technical complexities of blockchain, the Hashgraph Application Studio significantly accelerates the development lifecycle for Hedera-based projects.
Hash Horses is a "play-to-earn" digital horse racing platform that allows users to own, breed, and race virtual horses as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The company has created a complete ecosystem for digital horse racing enthusiasts, aiming to provide a realistic and engaging experience with real-world value.
The core of the Hash Horses platform is its collection of NFT horses, starting with the "Genesis" collection. Each horse has unique traits and abilities that affect its performance in races. The platform's services include a marketplace for buying, selling, and trading these NFT horses, as well as a breeding system that allows owners to create new, unique offspring. The central feature is the Racecourse, where players can enter their horses in races to compete for prizes and improve their horse's stats.
Hash Horses is built exclusively on the Hedera network. The Hedera Token Service (HTS) used to mint all NFT horses and the native fungible token and the racing and breeding mechanics are managed through smart contracts.
Lazy Superheroes is a play-to-earn (P2E) idle game built on the Hedera network, centered around a collection of unique superhero non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The project combines digital ownership with passive gameplay, allowing players to earn rewards without requiring constant, active participation. To engage with the game, a player must first own a Lazy Superhero NFT, which serves as their primary in-game character.
The core gameplay loop involves sending superhero NFTs on missions. Missions are time-based and, once initiated, they run passively in the background. Upon successful completion, players are rewarded with $LAZY, the game's native utility token. This token is central to the game’s economy and progression system. Players can then use their earned $LAZY to train their superheroes, which improves their stats and attributes. Upgrading a hero increases its effectiveness, allowing it to undertake more challenging missions and generate greater rewards in the future.
This cycle of sending heroes on missions, earning $LAZY, and reinvesting it into training forms a strategic loop that encourages long-term engagement. The entire ecosystem, from the superhero NFTs to the $LAZY token and the mission transactions, is built and managed on the Hedera network.