Circle's USD Coin (USDC), integrated with the Hedera network, offers a regulated, fiat-backed stablecoin pegged to the US dollar. This collaboration allows USDC to be minted natively on Hedera, leveraging the network's fast settlements (around 3-5 seconds), low transaction fees (typically $0.0001 to $0.001, paid in HBAR), and high scalability.
USDC on Hedera provides a trusted, stable, and reliable bridge for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and end-users on the Circle and Hedera networks. Circle's increasingly popular suite of developer APIs offers full support for USDC on Hedera, facilitating its use in various applications including both payments and micropayments.
With USDC, enterprises and financial institutions have access to cross-platform liquidity and secure cross-border transactions. It’s currently used to facilitate payments and micropayments within applications such as Calaxy, Dropp, and Scintilla as well as to in support of numerous DeFi, NFT projects, and network bridge applications building on Hedera including SaucerSwap and Hashport.
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Standard Bank Group, located in South Africa, is Africa's largest bank by assets and among the longest operating financial institutions on the continent having been founded more than 150 years ago. The Group offers a comprehensive suite of financial products and services via the Hedera blockchain including a wide array of payment processing solutions for both individuals and businesses.
The firm’s primary functions include facilitating transactional banking, lending, asset finance, merchant solutions, trade finance, and international payment services for its business and enterprise clients. Standard Bank also provides insurance and asset management services.
As a member of the Hedera Governing Council, Standard Bank provides enterprise-grade, secure transactions and digitized cross-border trade processes on the immutable Hedera distributed blockchain ledger.
Standard Bank is one of the leading Hedera-based service providers utilizing Hedera's Token Service (HTS) and Consensus Service (HCS). The primary focus of this collaboration is to improve transaction efficiency and reduce costs associated with international cross-border payments.
PowerSynch is a digital platform developed by American PowerNet, the first independent company to be granted a power marketer license by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). It specializes in providing direct access to wholesale electricity markets for commercial and industrial clients.
The PowerSynch platform functions as a marketplace for sustainable energy, connecting large-scale buyers directly with renewable energy generators. Its primary service is to facilitate transparent and efficient online transactions for wholesale power, bundled with Renewable Energy Credits (RECs). The platform enables buyers to competitively bid for wholesale blocks of power, offering flexible, short-duration Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs). For sellers, PowerSynch provides a streamlined process to offer their renewable energy to a larger market with the assurance of payment upon delivery. The platform manages the physical delivery of power and provides audit-ready data for environmental reporting.
PowerSynch leverages the Hedera network to ensure the transparency and verifiability of its transactions. The use of Hedera is intended to increase trust in the renewable energy market, prevent double-counting of RECs, and provide a secure, auditable trail for all transactions.
Mynt Music is a Web3 platform designed to address the challenges artists face with traditional streaming services, such as low revenue and a lack of direct engagement with fans. By leveraging blockchain technology, Mynt provides artists with the tools to take greater control over their work and monetization.
The core of the Mynt platform is built on the Hedera network. This allows artists to mint their music, artwork, and other exclusive content as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the Hedera Token Service (HTS). In addition to NFTs, artists can create and issue their own unique, fungible "Fan Tokens." These tokens function as a digital key to an artist's community, granting holders access to exclusive content, unreleased tracks, private channels, and unique real-world experiences. This model transforms passive listeners into active stakeholders in an artist's career.
By building on Hedera, Mynt benefits from the network's high speed, sustainability, and low, predictable transaction fees, which are essential for processing the high volume of micro-transactions involved in a thriving fan economy.
Zero Hash is a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) crypto-as-a-service infrastructure provider that empowers businesses to integrate digital assets from the Hedera blockchain network directly into their customer experiences. It offers a comprehensive, API-driven solution for custody, liquidity, and regulated settlement for cryptocurrencies and stablecoins.
It provides a crucial on-ramp for Hedera ecosystem, enabling business clients to natively integrate Hedera Hashgraph into their platforms quickly and easily. This allows businesses to offer their customers the seamless ability to send, receive, store, and convert fiat, crypto, and stablecoins within a single cross-platform capable engine powered by Zero Hash's infrastructure.
Zero Hash is committed to compliance and regulatory coverage. It provides a “regulatory stack as a service” model and is licensed to operate in numerous territories including the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and many more. This allows businesses to launch compliant crypto and stablecoin products with support for a wide array of assets across numerous blockchains and geographies and advances the utility of the native Hedera HBAR and HTS tokens.