
Uphold
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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Acme Labs is a metaverse community built on the Hedera blockchain network dedicated to the world of visual storytelling with an emphasis on high quality art prints featuring nostalgic cartoons. It specializes in bringing art and collectibles from animation, comic books, and emerging XR media into the digital realm, providing a unique combination of classic creativity and modern technology.
It features numerous collaborations with established artists including “The Chuck Jones Gallery,” an initiative that resurrects "Lost Wrabbit," a unique character conceived by the legendary Looney Tunes director Chuck Jones and reimagined by artist Ben Olson, which seeks to preserve and modernize classic art stylings on Hedera.
Acme Labs’ platform allows creators and collectors to benefit from Hedera’s secure, fast, and accessible blockchain network while offering support for both credit card and cryptocurrency payments. It also provides a full suite of community services including virtual spaces where creators and enthusiasts can connect and collaborate.

Gate.io, established in 2013, is one of the first global cryptocurrency exchanges. It is headquartered in the Cayman Islands, serves over 23 million users, and is widely renowned for its extensive selection of digital assets listing over 3,800 cryptocurrencies and tokens.
It offers a comprehensive trading experience which includes spot, margin, and futures trading alongside leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Beyond active trading, the platform provides numerous ways to earn through "Gate Earn," which features staking, lending, structured products, and auto-investment plans. It also features an initial exchange offering (IEO) launchpad for new projects called "Gate.io Startup."
A key component of its ecosystem is GateToken (GT), its native utility token, which offers users trading fee discounts, VIP tier benefits, and participation in governance and exclusive events. Gate.io has also developed “GateChain,” its own public blockchain focused on asset security and decentralized trading, which is EVM-compatible.
The Gate platform also features a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, advanced trading bots, copy trading, and a payments service called “Gate Pay.”

Rivia is a Dallas-based technology firm specializing in stablecoin, payments, and finance infrastructure solutions. Its flagship product, the Rivia US Dollar ($rUSD) stablecoin, is a low-cost settlement layer token pegged to the US dollar and used to facilitate global financial transactions and remittances via immutable blockchain ledger technology.
Its stablecoin offering is based on a "proof of reserve" (PoR) guaranteeing a 1:1 backing for its $rUSD stablecoin. $rUSD is broadly integrated across numerous digital payments and assets services and provides cross platform compatibility with major distributed ledger technologies including Hedera, Ethereum, Algorand, and Solana.
Rivia’s stablecoin model emphasizes collaboration with US credit unions to create expanded access to American markets. Key features of its offerings include low-cost, high-speed transactions, global accessibility, and enhanced security and stability derived from credit union liquidity distribution.
Its established partnerships include integrations with financial institutions such as Fivancial, LoneStar, Resource One, Plaid, and Janusea.

IOWNME is a platform developed by IPrivata, a company focused on data privacy and digital rights. Its designed to provide individuals with a way to assert ownership and control over their personal data, particularly in the context of name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights for athletes.
The core of the IOWNME service is the platform’s Declaration Certificate, a legally-grounded digital certificate that establishes a root proof of authenticity for an individual's data. This certificate links the rights embedded in a patent to an individual's personal information, effectively transforming the enforcement of data privacy from a matter of privacy policy to one of property rights, intellectual property, and contract law. This provides a more robust and proactive framework for individuals to protect and monetize their personal brand and content.
The IOWNME platform is built on the Hedera network. IPrivata is working directly with the Hedera Foundation and Acoer, a DLT developer, to integrate the Declaration Certificate into the Hedera ecosystem.
