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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Capturiant, founded in 2022, is a Houston-based company that operates as a global environmental asset authenticator, registry, and marketplace. The company's mission is to bring efficiency, transparency, and trust to the historically opaque and fragmented environmental asset markets, including carbon credits.
The core of Capturiant's service is an integrated platform that manages the entire lifecycle of environmental assets. This includes the authentication and validation of projects that generate credits, the minting and registration of these credits on a digital registry, and a regulated exchange for trading them. By creating a transparent, private-sector-driven model with clear fee structures and robust standards, Capturiant aims to increase confidence and liquidity in the market.
Capturiant's entire platform is built on the Hedera network. The company utilizes Hedera's distributed ledger technology (DLT) to create an immutable and auditable record for every environmental asset it registers. By leveraging the Hedera Consensus Service, Capturiant ensures the integrity and transparency of all transactions, from the minting of a credit to its final retirement.
Buidler Labs is a software development and consulting company that specializes in building solutions on the Hedera network. It creates tools and infrastructure for developers to build and deploy decentralized applications (dApps) on Hedera, with a focus on enhancing the user experience and driving adoption of the ecosystem.
The firm's products include open-source libraries, hashgraph-react-wallets, and lightweight library that simplifies the process of connecting dApps to various Hedera-supported wallets such as Hashpack and Kabila. It also offers the Hedera Strato JS SDK, which provides a comprehensive toolkit for JavaScript developers. In addition to these developer-focused tools, Buidler Labs provides consulting services to help businesses design, build, and launch their own Hedera-based applications.
Buidler Labs’ work is aimed at lowering the barrier to entry for building on Hedera, particularly for developers who may be more familiar with Ethereum-based tools. Buidler Labs is a key player in expanding the developer base and the overall capabilities of the Hedera network.
DCX Group is a global B2B technology provider specializing in the tokenization of tangible, real-world assets. Its services serve as an on-ramp for traditional industries transitioning to the Web3 economy. The company is focused on bridging traditional finance (TradFi) with decentralized finance (DeFi) by transforming illiquid assets into regulated, tradable digital tokens or security token offerings (STOs).
DCX offers a comprehensive platform and services for tokenization including structuring and primary issuance of security tokens, facilitating secondary market trading through the DCX OTC and exchange solutions, and providing ongoing asset management tools. It emphasizes a regulation-forward approach, ensuring compliance with existing securities laws to build trust and security in the digital asset space.
The firm targets a diverse range of asset classes, including natural resources such as metals and mining, infrastructure projects with a focus on renewable energy, real estate, private equity, debt, and art and collectibles. A notable offering is “DCX Bullion,” which provides tokenized access to precious metals. By tokenizing these assets, DCX offers significant benefits such as increased liquidity, enhanced transparency via blockchain technology, fractional ownership opportunities for a broader investor base, and improved transactional efficiency. assets.
Indodax, founded in 2014, is one of the largest and oldest cryptocurrency exchanges serving the Indonesian market. It provides a platform for users to buy, sell, and trade a wide array of digital assets using the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR). The exchange boasts millions of registered users
Indodax offers a comprehensive suite of trading services including spot trading for numerous cryptocurrencies, ranging from major coins such as Bitcoin and Ethereum to a diverse selection of altcoins. The platform features a mobile application with distinct "Lite" and "Pro" modes to cater to both novice and experienced traders. Users can also engage in staking to generate passive income from crypto holdings.
The exchange places a strong emphasis on user education through its "Indodax Academy," which provides resources on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency trading. It is registered and licensed by Indonesia's Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency (BAPPEBTI), underscoring its commitment to operating within the local regulatory framework.