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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LAToken is a global cryptocurrency exchange established in 2017, headquartered in Malta. It offers trading options for a wide array of digital assets, with a particular focus on providing liquidity for new tokens and facilitating Initial Exchange Offerings (IEOs).
The exchange offers several key trading services, including spot trading, crypto-to-crypto margin trading, and perpetual contracts. Beyond traditional trading, LAToken supports staking programs, enabling users to earn rewards on their holdings, and features a non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace. The platform boasts a significant number of listed cryptocurrencies catering to both popular and lesser-known altcoins.
It has its own native utility token, LA (an ERC-20 token), which is used for various functions on the platform, such as paying trading fees, often at a discounted rate, and participating in certain platform-specific activities.
LAToken serves as a comprehensive cryptocurrency exchange where users can engage in spot trading across a wide selection of digital assets and also explore crypto-to-crypto margin trading and perpetual contracts for more advanced strategies.
Edge is a US-based non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet provider that was founded in 2014. Its primary product, Edge Wallet, is a multi-asset mobile application that allows users to buy, sell, store, and trade a wide variety of cryptocurrencies.
Key services include in-app cryptocurrency purchases through various third-party providers, crypto-to-crypto swaps, and the ability to purchase gift cards with cryptocurrency. A distinguishing feature of Edge is its "zero-knowledge" security architecture, which means that the company has no access to user funds or data. The wallet uses a simple username and password system for account creation and backup, which is a more familiar experience for mainstream users compared to traditional seed phrases.
Edge has a direct integration with the Hedera network, providing full support for HBAR and other Hedera-based assets. This allows users to securely store and manage their HBAR within the Edge wallet. The integration is seamless, enabling users to easily send, receive, and trade HBAR alongside other major cryptocurrencies.
Bonzo Finance is an open-source, non-custodial lending and borrowing protocol built on the Hedera network. It is a fork of the popular Aave v2 protocol and is designed to serve as "The Liquidity Layer" for the Hedera DeFi ecosystem.
The core of Bonzo Finance's service is its decentralized platform that allows users to lend and borrow a variety of cryptocurrencies, with a focus on HBAR, native USDC, and other Hedera ecosystem assets. Users supply crypto to the protocol to earn interest, provide liquidity, and as collateral for loans.
Bonzo Finance also offers "flash loans," which are uncollateralized loans that must be repaid within a single transaction. It has its own governance token, $BONZO.
Bonzo Finance is built on the Hedera Smart Contract Service, and it is designed to be fully compatible with the Hedera Token Service (HTS). It also utilizes the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) for its verifiable points and rewards program.
Joget is an open-source no-code/low-code application development platform designed to empower users, from citizen developers to professional programmers, to build, integrate, and orchestrate enterprise-grade applications and automate workflows with minimal coding. The platform focuses on accelerating digital transformation by simplifying application development and enabling faster delivery of solutions across various industries.
A key aspect of Joget's offering is its specific support for blockchain and digital ledger technology (DLT) applications through its integration with the Hedera blockchain network. This is facilitated by the Hashgraph Application Studio, a version of Joget tailored for the Hedera ecosystem, and the Hedera Ledger Pack plugin. These tools enable users to visually design and deploy decentralized applications (dApps) on Hedera, simplifying interactions with Hedera services like the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) and Hedera Token Service (HTS) for tasks such as account creation, asset transfer, and token management, directly from within the Joget environment.
Beyond its blockchain capabilities, Joget provides visual drag-and-drop interfaces for UI and process design, AI-powered development features, pre-built integrations, and an extensible plugin architecture. This allows organizations to improve time-to-market, achieve cost efficiencies, and enhance operational flexibility for a wide range of enterprise applications.