Hex Trust is a fully-licensed and insured digital asset custodian that provides bank-grade infrastructure and services for the Web3 ecosystem. Its mission is to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the digital asset economy by providing a secure and compliant platform for institutional investors.

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The company offers a comprehensive suite of services built around its proprietary platform, Hex Safe. This includes institutional-grade custody for a wide range of digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, security tokens, and NFTs. In addition to custody, Hex Trust provides staking services, DeFi access, and brokerage and financing solutions. This integrated approach allows their clients, which include financial institutions, asset managers, and Web3 projects, to securely manage and grow their digital asset portfolios.

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The Hex Safe platform supports HBAR and all tokens issued on the Hedera Token Service (HTS), making it an official custodian for the Hedera ecosystem. This partnership enables institutional clients to securely hold and stake HBAR, as well as to custody and manage HTS-based tokens. Hex Trust also serves as a strategic custodian for TOKO, a tokenization engine built on Hedera in collaboration with DLA Piper.

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Banxa is a global financial technology company specializing in payment processing. Its services provide interconnectivity between the traditional financial (TradFi) system and the digital asset economy. It currently processes more than $10 billion in payments annually for a wide range of clients including Visa, MasterCard, Kraken, and dozens more. 

The company’s core service suite offers solutions for the facilitation of fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat conversions allowing businesses to accept and process cryptocurrency payments while enabling users to purchase digital assets. This allows for the seamless integration of cryptocurrency payments, trading, and compliance solutions enabling one-stop global expansion into more than 150 countries serviced and unlocking new revenue streams for businesses.

Banxa also provides robust compliance tools, including know your customer (KYC) and anti money-laundering (AML) solutions with more than 45 licenses. It also offers trading and wallet infrastructure through APIs and SDKs, enabling businesses to integrate cryptocurrency buying, selling, and holding functionalities directly into their own platforms via the Hedera blockchain.

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Hashport is an interoperability solution designed to connect the Hedera network with other major blockchain ecosystems and enable the transfer of digital assets across distributed ledgers. It functions as a public utility, facilitating bidirectional token bridging, which allows users to move assets from one network to another.

The platform supports connections between the Hedera blockchain network and other prominent blockchains such as Ethereum, Polygon, and BNB Chain. The process involves users locking their original assets on the source chain to facilitate “porting” of newly-minted, wrapped versions of the original asset to the destination chain. Upon retrieval, the ported asset version is burned on the destination network thus unlocking the original tokens on their native chain.

Hashport utilizes a consortium of independent and reputable validators verify and authorize transactions in order to ensure end-to-end security. These validators monitor events on the connected chains to ensure the integrity of the bridging process. By enabling seamless cross-chain transfers, Hashport plays a vital role in expanding the reach of decentralized applications (dApps) and assets within the Hedera ecosystem.

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Kabuto is a decentralized name service built on Hedera that allows users to register blockchain domains such as .hh and manage human-readable names secured by NFTs and smart contracts. It supports address and text records across multiple blockchains, making it easier for users to interact with digital assets and identities in a unified way. The platform was originally launched with a mirror node and explorer by LaunchBadge, providing tools for developers and users to view and interact with Hedera network data, though this component was later paused.

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Kabuto continues to focus on decentralized identity and naming services, offering governance capabilities and DAO-ready features that allow users to participate in managing domain functionality and settings. By combining user-friendly naming with Hedera’s fast, secure, and scalable infrastructure, Kabuto aims to simplify blockchain interactions and promote wider adoption of the Hedera ecosystem.