WiCoin is a stablecoin launched by WiPay, a financial technology company with offices in Africa, the Caribbean, Columbia, and the US. It was launched to address the challenges of cross-border remittance and financial exclusion in its operational regions. It was built on the Hedera network utilizing the Hedera Token Service (HTS) and Hedera Smart Contract Service (HSCS) and is pegged to the US dollar.
It forms the backbone of the WiCoin Settlement Network, designed to create a unified system for transactions across numerous Caribbean islands, each with its own currency. It also extends into African markets and currencies.
The primary goal of WiCoin is to "bank the bankless" by providing an accessible and efficient means for cross-border payments and settlements by leveraging Hedera's fast transaction speeds, low and predictable fees, and robust security through its asynchronous byzantine fault tolerance (ABFT).
WiPay is supported by the Hedera HBAR foundation and seeks to enhance financial inclusion and streamline economic activity in underserved regions by providing a locally-accessible bridge between traditional banking services and low-cost, speedy digital transactions.
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Hyperstack is a Web3 company developing the "Credential Cloud" platform for issuing, managing, and verifying smart, secure, and immutable digital credentials. Its mission is to revolutionize digital identity by providing a no-code, high-impact framework that can be used by a wide range of organizations, from educational institutions to corporations.
The core of Hyperstack's service is its comprehensive credential management platform. This includes a design studio for creating custom-branded digital certificates and badges, tools for issuing credentials at scale, and a secure digital wallet for recipients to store and share their credentials. A key feature of the platform is its robust analytics dashboard, which allows issuers to track engagement with their credentials, providing valuable insights into their reach and impact. The platform is also designed for seamless integration with existing systems, such as Learning Management Systems (LMS) and HR platforms.
Hyperstack's entire platform is built on the Hedera network. It uses the Hedera Token Service (HTS) to mint credentials as NFTs, providing a secure and efficient way to manage their ownership and transfer.
Meeco is a data privacy and digital identity company founded in 2012. Headquartered in Australia, with offices in the UK and Belgium, Meeco's mission is to empower individuals with control over their personal data, enabling them to get value in exchange for what they share.
Meeco's core product is the Secure Value Exchange (SVX) platform, a suite of infrastructure tools for managing verifiable credentials, decentralised identity, and secure data storage. This includes a white-label digital wallet, a vault for end-to-end encrypted data, and services for managing the entire lifecycle of digital credentials. A key application of this technology is Trustury, an open-source interface designed to bring transparency to ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) markets by allowing for the visualization and auditing of sustainability tokens.
Meeco has developed a Decentralised Identifier (DID) SDK for Hedera and uses the Hedera Consensus Service to create verifiable logs. The Trustury platform is built to support the Hedera Guardian, an open-source tool for digitizing and auditing sustainability projects.
Gaimin is a Swiss-based company founded in 2018. Its vision is to create the world's most powerful decentralised supercomputer by harnessing the collective power of the gaming community.
Gaimin's core product is a free-to-download PC application that runs in the background, detecting when a user's computer is idle and then utilizing its processing power for various tasks, such as AI model training, video rendering, and blockchain computations. In return for contributing their resources, gamers are rewarded with Gaimin's native cryptocurrency, GMRX. This creates a passive income stream for gamers and provides a cost-effective solution for businesses in need of high-performance computing. The Gaimin platform also serves as a game launcher and a hub for Web3 gaming, with an integrated marketplace for NFTs and other digital assets.
Gaimin uses the Hedera network to tokenise in-game assets as NFTs, allowing players to have true ownership of their digital items. One of the first games to be integrated with this system is a version of Minecraft called Gaimcraft, where users can create NFTs that are interoperable between the Gaimin marketplace and their Minecraft inventory.
ServiceNow is an American software company, founded in 2003, that provides a cloud-based platform for automating and managing business workflows. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, ServiceNow’s core offering is the the Now Platform, an intelligent and intuitive cloud platform that automates workflows across IT, employee, and customer service departments.
The Now Platform allows businesses to streamline operations, optimize productivity, and create seamless experiences for both employees and customers. It includes a suite of applications for IT service management (ITSM), IT operations management (ITOM), strategic portfolio management, and more.
As a member of the Hedera Governing Council, ServiceNow is leveraging the Hedera Consensus Service to create immutable and auditable records of transactions and interactions that occur on the Now Platform. This integration enables the creation of trusted, multi-party business processes, enhancing data integrity and enabling new possibilities for tokenization, decentralised identity, and secure data sharing across organizational boundaries. This allows ServiceNow to extend the reach of its digital workflows to entire business ecosystems.