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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Unibright is a German software development company founded in 2017 specializing in enterprise blockchain solutions. Its mission is to simplify distributed ledger technology (DLT) integration for businesses.
The core of Unibright's offering is the Unibright Framework, a "no-code" platform that enables the visual design and automated generation of smart contracts and other blockchain-based business logic. The firm also offers Unibright ONE, a service platform that synchronizes data across various blockchains and legacy IT systems. Another key component of Unibright’s operations is Baseledger, a public, council-governed blockchain that is designed for enterprise-grade performance and data privacy.
In 2021, Unibright integrated the Hedera Token Service (HTS) into its Freequity platform, a 360-degree solution for tokenization that includes issuance, regulatory compliance, and liquidity services. This integration allows Unibright's enterprise clients to issue and manage tokens on the Hedera network, taking advantage of its high throughput, low and predictable fees, robust security, and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
Agryo is a global financial technology (AgriFintech) company that operates as a risk intelligence platform for the agricultural sector. Its core mission is to solve critical challenges in agricultural finance by providing data-driven risk analysis, which helps de-risk farming operations and facilitates access to credit and insurance for farmers, particularly small and medium-sized producers.
The platform leverages advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence and satellite imagery analysis, to process over 500 different data variables for any given crop field. This comprehensive analysis generates a dynamic risk score and a "digital twin" of the farm, offering lenders and insurers a clear, data-backed understanding of the operation's viability and potential yield.
Agryo is built on the Hedera network. The platform uses the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) to create an immutable and publicly auditable log of its risk assessments and crop monitoring reports. By anchoring these critical data points to the Hedera public ledger, Agryo provides financial institutions with verifiable proof that the information they are using for underwriting decisions is authentic and has not been tampered with, fostering greater confidence and unlocking capital for farmers worldwide.
Banxa is a global financial technology company specializing in payment processing. Its services provide interconnectivity between the traditional financial (TradFi) system and the digital asset economy. It currently processes more than $10 billion in payments annually for a wide range of clients including Visa, MasterCard, Kraken, and dozens more.
The company’s core service suite offers solutions for the facilitation of fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat conversions allowing businesses to accept and process cryptocurrency payments while enabling users to purchase digital assets. This allows for the seamless integration of cryptocurrency payments, trading, and compliance solutions enabling one-stop global expansion into more than 150 countries serviced and unlocking new revenue streams for businesses.
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W3C Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of globally unique identifier designed to enable verifiable, decentralised digital identity. As a formal web standard published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the DID architecture is a foundational component for building a more secure and user-centric internet.
Unlike traditional identifiers such as email addresses or usernames, DIDs are not tied to any centralised registry or company. This means that individuals and organisations can create and control their own identifiers, giving them "self-sovereign" control over their digital identities. The core of the system is the DID Document, a JSON file that contains the cryptographic keys and service endpoints associated with a DID. This document is stored on a distributed ledger or other decentralised network, allowing for secure and verifiable interactions.
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