Starling Lab for Data Integrity is an academic research center that operates at the intersection of cryptography, decentralized web protocols, and the humanities. A joint initiative between the USC Shoah Foundation and Stanford University's Department of Electrical Engineering, the lab's mission is to develop and prototype tools and principles to establish trust in digital records. In an era of rampant misinformation and AI-generated content, Starling Lab is pioneering new methods to securely capture, store, and verify digital media.
The core of their work is the Starling Framework for Data Integrity, a comprehensive, open-source methodology for authenticating digital content. This framework is built on three pillars: Capture, which involves creating a chain of custody from the moment a photo or video is taken, Store, which uses decentralized networks like IPFS and Filecoin to securely distribute and preserve content, and Verify, which leverages immutable ledgers to register and audit the provenance of digital assets. This end-to-end approach has been applied in various real-world scenarios, from documenting the 78 days of the 2020 U.S. presidential transition with Reuters to preserving the USC Shoah Foundation's archive of 55,000 holocaust testimonies.
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TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company founded in 2018, with headquarters in San Francisco. It specializes in helping financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies detect and investigate cryptocurrency-related fraud and financial crime. TRM's mission is to build a safer financial system by blending blockchain data with advanced analytics.
The company's core services are delivered through a comprehensive risk management platform that includes solutions for transaction monitoring, wallet screening, and forensics. Key products include TRM Transaction Monitoring, which provides real-time risk scoring for AML (Anti-Money Laundering) compliance, and TRM Forensics, which offers tools to trace the source and destination of crypto funds. The platform supports over 100 blockchains and 200 million digital assets, providing a cross-chain view of transactions.
TRM Labs’ full suite of compliance and risk management tools supports HBAR, the native cryptocurrency of Hedera, as well as other assets issued on the network. This integration allows organizations building on Hedera to leverage TRM's platform to detect financial crime, meet regulatory requirements, and ensure the safety of their applications.
Dead Pixels Ghost Club (DPGC) is a community-focused non-fungible token (NFT) project built on the Hedera blockchain network. It features distinct hand-crafted pixel art consisting of 10,000 unique "ghost" NFTs which are released to the public in phased drops.
The DPGC platform leverages the energy-efficient and low-fee Hedera blockchain network for minting and trading its collectible NFTs. The project actively fosters interaction among its members through various events, including creative contests and story-writing competitions, encouraging holders to develop narratives for their ghostly collectibles.
DPGC collectibles are available on secondary Hedera-based marketplaces including SentX allowing users to further engage in expanded community showcases. The project has also inspired tools such as the "Dead Pixel Ghost Tab," a Chrome extension that displays a random ghost NFT with every new browser tab.
Rather than gaming or competition, the focus of Dead Pixels Ghost Club is on its art, collectibility, and community “spirit.”
The eftpos solution by Australian Payments Plus provides a cost effective, secure and flexible payment infrastructure for Australian businesses. It supports real time debit transactions, tap to pay on mobile devices, eftpos QR payments and least cost routing, which allows merchants to automatically direct debit transactions through the lowest cost network to help reduce the cost of acceptance.
Australian Payments Plus has worked with Google to enable least cost routing in Google Wallet, with ANZ and Suncorp the first issuers to offer this capability. It is also partnering with Giesecke and Devrient to develop eftpos Click to Pay with integrated least cost routing, an online checkout service that uses tokenisation to protect card credentials and is scheduled for rollout from early 2026 following pilot trials.
These developments enhance payment efficiency, improve security, support domestic data sovereignty and align with Reserve Bank of Australia findings that least cost routing can materially reduce merchant debit acceptance costs.
OKX, previously, Okcoin, is a prominent global cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 technology company headquartered in Seychelles. It serves over 60 million users worldwide and is known for its extensive range of digital assets.
The OKX platform supports trading for over 350 cryptocurrencies with numerous trading pairs and offers a comprehensive suite of services catering including spot, margin, and advanced derivatives trading such as futures with up to 125X leverage, perpetual swaps, and options.
Beyond its centralized exchange, OKX has significantly expanded into the Web3 space with its versatile OKX Wallet, a multi-chain self-custody wallet with support for decentralized applications (DApps), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator.
OKX also provides a growth platform for cryptocurrency holdings through its "OKX Earn" program which offers staking and savings products alongside automated trading via its artificial intelligence-powered automated trading bots.
It has its own native utility token, OKB, which provides users with trading fee discounts and access to exclusive platform features. Additionally, OKX has developed its own Layer 2 network, X Layer (formerly OKC Chain), a ZK-powered chain designed to enhance scalability and interoperability within its ecosystem, using OKB as the native gas token.