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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Its parent company is the Shinhan Financial Group, a major financial holding company in Korea with a significant domestic market share and an expanding international presence across Asia, Europe, and North America.
Shinhan Bank offers a blockchain-based loan management platform through a partnership with the Small Business Market Promotion Corporation (SEMAS). It has also launched a blockchain credentialing system for verifying loan documents and an integrated blockchain-based Decentralized ID (DID) for its mobile banking app, SOL.
Additionally, Shinhan Bank previously partnered with Standard Bank to develop a cross-border remittance system using stablecoins built on the Hedera distributed blockchain network. This enables the issuance and trading of stablecoins pegged to national currencies such as the South Korean won and South African rand utilizing Hedera's Token Service (HTS) and Consensus Service (HCS).
SEUN is a technology company developing an Internet of Things (IoT) device for monitoring water data. Its mission is to provide a secure and stable data management system to protect and prolong the life of large infrastructure that relies on water, such as hospitals, cooling towers, and well systems.
The core of SEUN's service is its customizable IoT device that can be used to monitor virtually any liquid. The platform is designed to provide real-time data and insights, functioning as a security system for water-based infrastructure. A key feature of the system is its use of distributed ledger technology to mitigate fraudulent activity and ensure the integrity of the data. The company's process is also GDPR compliant, underscoring its commitment to data privacy and security.
SEUN's platform is build in Hedera. It uses the the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) to provide an immutable and verifiable log of all water data, creating a "single source of truth" that can be trusted by all stakeholders.
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NOWPayments has a direct integration with the Hedera network, providing full support for HBAR and other Hedera-based tokens. This allows merchants using the NOWPayments platform to accept HBAR as a form of payment.
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