Uphold is a versatile global digital money platform offering a "anything-to-anything" trading experience that connects cryptocurrencies, fiat money, and precious metals to the digital marketplace. Uphold serves as a crucial access point for the Hedera ecosystem, allowing users to buy, sell, and hold HBAR through its simple interface while facilitating on-chain deposits and withdrawals.
Uphold's platform highlights the exchange’s transparency, publishing its assets and liabilities in real-time and maintaining a 100-percent plus reserve policy, ensuring user funds are fully backed.
Beyond basic trading, Uphold offers features including recurring buy orders for dollar-cost averaging and staking rewards on various digital assets, including HBAR. Its "Vault" feature provides enhanced self-custody options for HBAR holders and secure private key management with assisted replacement.
Uphold is also holds over 50 licenses and registrations globally, including compliance with FinCEN in the US, the FCA in the UK, and FINTRAC in Canada. They adhere to stringent anti-money launder (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) procedures.
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BankSocial is a global financial technology firm working to bridge traditional financial (TradFi) systems with emerging digital asset technologies. It utilizes artificial intelligence, machine learning, and distributed ledger technology (DLT), on the Hedera blockchain network.
The company offers a suite of integrated financial products and services designed for both individuals and enterprise financial institutions, with a specific focus on credit unions and their members. Key offerings include a self-custody crypto exchange, know your customer (KYC) user verification solutions, lending services, and the $BSL token, which offers staking with potential stablecoin rewards. Its ecosystem also encompasses a payments hub, fraud management tools, a digital wallet, and custom software and API development.
Its focus on the credit union sector allows it to provide partners with technology bridging TradFIi with Web3 and offers secure self-custody for cryptocurrency holdings and access to a suite of DeFi tools through a user-friendly interface.
The firm holds a Money Services Business (MSB) registration with the US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Canada’s FINTRAC through Fivancial Inc.
BankSocial also developed the Secura platform, in collaboration with Hedera, which focuses on real-time fraud monitoring and asset recovery in the Web3 space.
Deloitte, a global leader in professional services, provides a wide range of audit, consulting, tax, and advisory services. Leveraging its deep industry expertise, the firm developed the Environmental and Social Impact (ESI) Platform. This platform is a sophisticated digital measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) solution that enables corporations to measure, track, and report on their ESG initiatives. Its primary function is to transform sustainability efforts into evidence-based, auditable claims, directly addressing the challenge of greenwashing by providing a clear and credible record of a company's environmental and social impact.
The ESI Platform's foundation is a strategic partnership with The Hashgraph Association. The platform is built on the Hedera public distributed ledger, utilizing its technology to not only record ESG data but also to tokenise these verified impacts. Using the open-source Hedera Guardian toolset, the ESI platform creates a transparent and immutable audit trail, allowing for the creation of quantifiable, transferable digital assets that represent real-world sustainability outcomes.
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.
Capture, by Numbers Protocol, is a Web3 camera application designed to combat digital fraud and establish verifiable provenance for photos and videos. It functions as the primary creation tool for the Numbers Protocol network, allowing users to generate digital media that is authentic, traceable, and secure from the moment of creation. The app is targeted at content creators, photographers, journalists, and anyone concerned with the integrity and ownership of their digital work in an age of AI-driven misinformation.
When a user takes a photo or records a video with the Capture App, it automatically embeds the content with rich, tamper-proof metadata. This includes critical information such as the creator's identity, a secure timestamp, and geolocation data. This entire package is then registered on a blockchain, creating an immutable "birth certificate" for the asset. This process adheres to the C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) standard, ensuring a high degree of trust.
This "Capture-secured" content provides a clear and verifiable history that travels with the asset, allowing anyone to confirm its origin and view any subsequent edits. Furthermore, the app provides a seamless, one-click process for users to mint their verified content as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on various blockchains.