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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Red Swan Digital Real Estate is a commercial real estate tokenization platform. It specializes in converting property ownership into digital assets. This process creates increased liquidity in the traditionally illiquid real estate market and makes investments more accessible through fractional ownership via the Hedera blockchain.
The company operates a the RedSwan CRE Marketplace, which hosts over $10 billion in commercial real estate deals. It offers a secure, straightforward, and transparent way to invest in real estate where investors can buy and sell tokenized shares of various commercial property types, including apartments, offices, retail spaces, and industrial buildings.
Red Swan offers investment services to accredited investors, qualified purchasers, and institutional investors. For property owners, it offers services to raise capital and enhance liquidity by tokenizing their assets.
The company emphasizes compliance with US securities regulations and offers compliance services. It operates as an SEC Registered Investment Advisor with its affiliate RedSwan Markets LLC, a FINRA/SIPC registered broker-dealer. Togethery, they offer various investment funds, including those focused on specific regions or asset types, such as affordable housing and eco-tourism.
Through its tokenized CRE offerings, Red Swan seeks to lower investment minimums, increase accessibility, and broaden international access to commercial real estate opportunities.
Kabuto is a decentralized name service built on Hedera that allows users to register blockchain domains such as .hh and manage human-readable names secured by NFTs and smart contracts. It supports address and text records across multiple blockchains, making it easier for users to interact with digital assets and identities in a unified way. The platform was originally launched with a mirror node and explorer by LaunchBadge, providing tools for developers and users to view and interact with Hedera network data, though this component was later paused.
Kabuto continues to focus on decentralized identity and naming services, offering governance capabilities and DAO-ready features that allow users to participate in managing domain functionality and settings. By combining user-friendly naming with Hedera’s fast, secure, and scalable infrastructure, Kabuto aims to simplify blockchain interactions and promote wider adoption of the Hedera ecosystem.
The IBM Blockchain Platform was a short-term funding and technology project involving the Hedera blockchain network. While this specific project has evolved into an ongoing enterprise blockchain strategy, IBM remains intrinsically involved with the Hedera network as a member of the Hedera Governing Council.
This position provides IBM with a direct voice and vote in the governance of the Hedera public network, influencing its technical roadmap, policies, and overall strategic direction. As a council member, IBM also contributes to the network's operational integrity by running a consensus node.
This engagement with Hedera allows IBM to participate, offer insights and contribute to advancements which align with its broader interests in advancing enterprise-grade distributed ledger solutions (DLT). This involvement complements IBM's extensive work with permissioned blockchains and strengthens the partnership between Hedera and the broader technology industry while providing a holistic perspective on the evolving blockchain landscape for IBM’s global enterprise clients.
Utherverse is a metaverse platform that enables developers to build interconnected virtual worlds. Based in Vancouver, Canada, the company provides tools for creating hyper-realistic, immersive experiences for consumers and offers opportunities for businesses to market and monetize their products and services within these virtual environments.
Its core services are centered around its metaverse-as-a-service offering. This includes a proprietary Web3 browser and metaverse search engine called Xaeon, which allows users to navigate and explore the "Virtual World Web". The Utherverse ecosystem is designed to support a wide range of business verticals, from virtual retail and entertainment to education and corporate offices. A key feature is the platform's robust virtual economy, which has processed billions of transactions and is powered by the native token, UTHR.
The platform also supports the creation and trading of functional NFTs (fNFTs), which are digital assets with in-world utility. Utherverse has a direct integration with the Hedera network, which is a core component of its transition to a Web3 architecture.