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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Merkle Science is an artificial intelligence-powered blockchain analytics, threat detection, and predictive risk platform. It provides a comprehensive suite of solutions to detect, investigate, and prevent illicit on-chain activities.
Its detection and mitigation tools go beyond simple identification and blacklisting to provide actionable intelligence for a broad range of clients. These include cryptocurrency exchanges, DeFi platforms, NFT marketplaces, financial institutions, and government and law enforcement agencies.
Through its “Compass" and “Tracker” tools, Merkle Science offers predictive risk monitoring and regulatory compliance (KYC/AML/CFT) for automated forensic investigations enabling cross-chain tracing capabilities. Its “Onchain Pulse” service also provides a deep data platform for AI-powered analytics.
Merkle Science’s Know Your Blockchain Business (KYBB) platform leverages comprehensive risk profiles that combine proprietary on and off-chain data to facilitate analytical data-based vendor due diligence.
Expanding beyond analysis and mitigation, Merkle Science also offers training and certification programs for professionals conducting operations in the digital asset space. These include MiCar compliance certification for stablecoin issuers, AML and CFT certification, and cryptocurrency investigation certifications.
Utherverse is a metaverse platform that enables developers to build interconnected virtual worlds. Based in Vancouver, Canada, the company provides tools for creating hyper-realistic, immersive experiences for consumers and offers opportunities for businesses to market and monetize their products and services within these virtual environments.
Its core services are centered around its metaverse-as-a-service offering. This includes a proprietary Web3 browser and metaverse search engine called Xaeon, which allows users to navigate and explore the "Virtual World Web". The Utherverse ecosystem is designed to support a wide range of business verticals, from virtual retail and entertainment to education and corporate offices. A key feature is the platform's robust virtual economy, which has processed billions of transactions and is powered by the native token, UTHR.
The platform also supports the creation and trading of functional NFTs (fNFTs), which are digital assets with in-world utility. Utherverse has a direct integration with the Hedera network, which is a core component of its transition to a Web3 architecture.
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Hala Systems is a social enterprise founded in 2015 that develops advanced technology to protect civilians in conflict zones. Its mission is to reduce violence and provide accountability through the creation of early warning systems and tools for documenting war crimes.
The company's flagship product is Sentry, an AI-powered early warning system that predicts and warns civilians of impending threats, such as airstrikes. Sentry uses a network of remote sensors and real-time data to provide warnings, giving people crucial time to find safety. The system has been deployed in Syria, where it has been credited with significantly reducing casualties. In addition to its warning capabilities, Hala Systems also focuses on accountability, developing tools that allow for the secure collection of evidence of war crimes.
To ensure the integrity of the data collected, such as photos and videos of potential war crimes, Hala uses the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) to create a tamper-proof and cryptographically secure record of the evidence. Each piece of media has its metadata logged on the Hedera network, creating a verifiable and immutable audit trail.