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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Tribe's core service is its accelerator program, which takes a product-focused approach to helping startups scale. The program provides participating companies with a wide range of support, including dedicated masterclasses on topics like fundraising and marketing, technical mentorship from industry experts, and exclusive networking opportunities.
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The core of Power Transition's service is its Digital Energy Platform, a revolutionary energy resource management system that uses distributed ledger technology (DLT) to enable the tokenization of energy. This platform provides a common language for energy transactions and trading, allowing millions of devices, from electric vehicles to smart home appliances, to become active participants in the energy system. Key services include Smart MicroGrid Services, which enable peer-to-peer energy trading within a community, and Electric Vehicle Integration Services, which provide a single point of billing and data validation for EV fleet operators.
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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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