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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Numbers Protocol is a decentralized network designed to establish trust and authenticity in digital media. Its primary mission is to address the challenges of misinformation and copyright infringement by creating a verifiable record of content provenance from creation to publication. It provides a transparent and immutable history for digital assets, including images, videos, and audio files.
At its core, Numbers Protocol offers a suite of tools and services for creators and developers. This includes the "Capture App," which allows users to register their digital creations, embedding them with unique identifiers and contextual metadata. The "Numbers Blockchain" serves as a specialized distributed ledger for indexing these assets and their histories. The protocol also features a "Verify Engine," a reverse-image search tool enhanced with AI, enabling users to trace the origin and modification history of digital media.
By leveraging blockchain technology and decentralized storage, including the Hedera blockchain network, Numbers Protocol enables users to create on-chain proof of their digital media, secure ownership, and track usage.
EarthID is a UK-based company founded in 2018 that has developed a decentralised identity and verifiable credentials platform. The company's mission is to combat identity fraud, enhance data privacy, and build customer trust in an increasingly digital world.
The core of EarthID's service is a platform that enables organizations to issue and verify digital credentials in a secure and frictionless manner. This includes solutions for Digital KYC, which streamlines customer onboarding, and passwordless authentication, which enhances security by removing the need for traditional passwords. The platform is designed to be compliant with global data regulations including GDPR.
EarthID's platform is built on the Hedera network and uses the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) to create an immutable and auditable log of all identity-related transactions, ensuring a high level of trust and transparency. The integration with Hedera is fundamental to EarthID's ability to offer a scalable and secure decentralised identity solution that can be used by organizations and individuals around the world.
Onchain Custodian is a centralized exchange headquartered in Singapore. It specializes in providing secure and compliant digital asset custody services tailored primarily for institutional clients including entities such as investment funds, family offices, and other financial institutions managing significant digital asset portfolios.
The core of Onchain Custodian's offering is a global, standardized, and resilient service focused on security, convenience, and regulatory adherence. Their solutions incorporate multi-signature wallets and advanced security protocols.
Onchain Custodian has previously partnered with firms such as IBM, Merkle Science and Accuity to enhance its compliance and transaction monitoring capabilities. As well as platforms including Apifiny and exchanges such as KuCoin and CyberBank. Additionally, it has provided custodian services for tokenization platforms such as Polymath.
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The core of Bambu's offering is a digital wallet that integrates banking, payments, and investing into a single, user-friendly application. Key services include FDIC-insured checking accounts with no overdraft fees, early access to paychecks, and the ability to send money to over 18 countries in Latin America. Bambu also offers a unique "Round Up" feature that automatically invests spare change from everyday purchases into a diversified portfolio, making it easier for users to start investing with small amounts. The platform is designed to be bilingual, supporting both Spanish and English, to better serve its target audience.
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