Sayl Cloud is an all-in-one marketing, commerce, and loyalty platform designed primarily for businesses in the hospitality and retail sectors. The company provides independent restaurants, hotels, and retailers with a powerful suite of tools to increase direct sales, own their customer relationships, and reduce their reliance on third-party aggregators that charge high commissions. Sayl’s platform integrates functionalities like online ordering, table reservations, customer relationship management (CRM), and marketing automation into a single, cohesive system.

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A key innovation for Sayl Cloud is its integration with the Hedera network to offer next-generation, Web3-powered loyalty programs. Through this integration, businesses can easily create their own branded tokens and NFTs on Hedera, transforming traditional points-based rewards into engaging digital assets. Customers can earn these tokens for their purchases and other interactions, and then redeem them for exclusive perks, creating a more dynamic and gamified experience. Supported by The HBAR Foundation, Sayl leverages Hedera's fast, secure, and low-cost ledger to make these "Loyalty 3.0" programs feasible for its clients. 

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AID:Tech is a payments infrastructure firm that utilizes blockchain and digital identity technologies to improve the distribution of aid, social welfare, and other financial entitlements. Its core mission is to deliver these resources with enhanced transparency, efficiency, and accountability, ensuring they effectively reach their intended beneficiaries.

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The company develops solutions focused on creating secure digital identities for recipients, which are then linked to the disbursement and tracking of aid or services. A key aspect of its technological approach is the integration of the Hedera network. AID:Tech leverages the Hedera Consensus Service (HCS) to create immutable and transparent audit trails for all transactions and the delivery of benefits. 

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AID:Tech’s goal is to minimize fraud and improve the overall integrity of distribution programs. Its platforms are aimed at governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and international development agencies, providing them with tools to digitize processes, empower recipients, and gather reliable data on the impact of their initiatives.

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Datahash, formerly known as Entrust, is Australia's pioneering full-service agricultural supply chain platform. Focused on combating the estimated $3 billion annual global wine fraud, Datahash leverages distributed ledger technology (DLT) to ensure the authenticity and traceability of agricultural products from origin to consumer.

Datahash utilizes the Hedera Consensus Service to log supply chain events immutably. Each update is recorded to a defined topic on Hedera, requiring a signature and receiving a consensus timestamp. This approach provides a complete and verifiable history of the supply chain, enhancing transparency and trust among stakeholders.

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Beem is a versatile Australian digital wallet owned by Digital Wallet Pty Ltd and now part of Australian Payments Plus, a member of the Hedera Governing Council and the collective that also includes BPAY Group, eftpos and NPP Australia.

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It enables Australians to pay, request, transfer and split money instantly by using familiar contact names instead of BSB and account numbers. The app also supports BPAY for bill payments and offers features such as rewards and cashback through Beem Rewards and Cashrewards, loyalty and gift card storage, animated stickers and group expense management.

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Eftpos acquired Beem in 2020 to expand into digital wallet services and leverage its payments infrastructure for faster growth. Since then it has been downloaded more than 1.4 million times and has facilitated over US 1 billion in transactions. Australian Payments Plus operates a Hedera network node in Australia and has trialled the Hedera Consensus Service and an Australian dollar based stablecoin to enable secure and low cost micropayments, providing a potential foundation for future Beem innovations.

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