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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MetaStable is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that aims to provide a secure, private, and compliant environment for trading synthetic assets. The company is focused on leveraging advanced cryptographic techniques to solve some of the key challenges in the DeFi space, such as high slippage, impermanent loss, and regulatory uncertainty.

The core of MetaStable's service is its Automated Market Maker (AMM), which is designed to facilitate the trading of synthetic assets with minimal price impact. A key feature of the platform is its use of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), which allows for the verification of transactions without revealing the underlying data. This provides a high degree of privacy and confidentiality for users. The platform also includes a "DeFi Firewall," a proprietary technology that helps to ensure regulatory compliance by preventing illicit funds from entering the ecosystem.

MetaStable’s "chain-agnostic" design and support for EVM-compatible DLTs allows it be interoperable with various networks including the Hedera blockchain. 

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Vancelian is a financial services application that combines traditional finance (TradFi) expertise with blockchain technology to offer high-potential investment and savings solutions. Its stated mission is to make investing and saving accessible by providing expertly designed, high-performing financial products. It is registered with France's Financial Markets Authority (AMF) as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) in compliance with French and European regulations. 

The Vancelian platform provides several storage products, including "Flex Vault" for daily interest, "Blockchain Vault" for Bitcoin mining returns, and "Term Vault" which combines Bitcoin mining with DeFi strategies. It also facilitates automated portfolio management, trading services for more than 90 cryptocurrencies, and dedicated IBAN services upon registration as well as a  Vancelian Visa card. 

Vancelian features seamless integration with Hedera Hashgraph with additional security through  know-your-customer (KYC), multi-party computation (MPC) technology in partnership with Fireblocks, and regular penetration tests. It is general data protection regulation (GDPR) compliant. 

Blade Wallet

Blade Wallet is a non-custodial Web3 digital wallet primarily designed for the Hedera Hashgraph ecosystem. It offers users a secure and seamless way to manage their Hedera native HBAR and Hedera Token Service (HTS) tokens as well as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It emphasizes enterprise-grade security with certification from third-party audit firms including CertiK. 

It is available on mobile for iOS and Android and as a Chrome browser extension. Blade Wallet provides self-custody with user-friendly interface. Its key features include native HBAR staking, an integrated NFT gallery, and the ability to buy HBAR and USDC directly in-wallet through partnerships with fiat on-ramp services with MoonPay and Banxa. The wallet also facilitates interaction with decentralized applications (DApps) within the Hedera network.

Blade Wallet also features dual network capabilities, allowing users to access and manage assets on both the Hedera and Ethereum blockchain networks from within the same wallet. This includes support for in-wallet cross-chain swaps between ecosystems which can be facilitated by integrations with services such as Changelly. Blade Wallet also supports integration with Ledger hardware wallets for users additional asset security.