Category: Crypto

Capital Markets Veteran and Fintech Pioneer Kelley Millet Formally Joins Prontoblock as CFO and Member of the Board

Prontoblock, today announced the appointment of Kelley Millet as the company’s Chief Financial Officer and Board Member, effective July 15, 2022. Mr. Millet brings more than 20 years’ experience in driving growth, and has a proven track record building and scaling high performance teams. He has served – as Managing Director and Global Head of Debt Capital Markets with JPMorgan, President and Member of the Board of Directors of Market Axess, and President of Millennium Advisors.

Mr. Millet’s extensive experience in capital markets and the fintech sector will accelerate Prontoblock’s traction as a bridge to DeFi serving banks and other financial institutions across the tokenization of fixed income assets, commodities and collateral. He was a leader in the first wave of innovation in the electronic trading of fixed income instruments, taking them from telephone to electronic and straight through processing. With the current repricing and disruption in the equity, fixed income and cryptocurrency markets, Mr. Millet sees an even larger opportunity in migrating these markets – especially the $52 trillion fixed income market – to a Web3 infrastructure.

Mr. Millet’s experience will ensure that Prontoblock solutions accurately address, digitize and make more efficient existing trading activity in fixed income markets. Prontoblock solutions effectively address the inefficiencies that persist when issuing and trading those securities.

Prontoblock’s vision is to serve both the institutional and retail sectors participating in financial markets. In addition to his experience overseeing internal financial functions, Mr. Millet brings experience across both the executive and board levels to the role.

Currently, enabled by Web3 infrastructure, the fixed income assets tokenized by Prontoblock’s platform facilitate greater market access by means of increased efficiency via the blockchain and fractionalized ownership – in the process increasing liquidity and decreasing the cost of capital. The ticket size of such transactions and the associated costs in brokering them make them unavailable to many potential investors. If tokenized as digital assets, either as utility tokens or NFTs, the fixed income market could be opened up to many more investors, and in the process deepening liquidity.

About Prontoblock

Prontoblock provides innovative solutions to financial intermediaries, and ultimately everyday people. Our products open up both traditional and digital asset markets and streamline investment instrument operations using DeFi protocols. The Prontoblock platform tokenizes, hosts and maintains securities issued by clients. It powers a smart-contract solution that fully automates due diligence, establishes reliable records of current stakeholders and compliance, and significantly improves efficiency by reducing administrative friction.

Media Contact:
Alex Gault
alex@prontoblock.com
415-830-6739

Quantum Generation and Plato collaborate to deploy a Fully decentralized Space base quantum Network by 2027

Quantum Generations Qubit Blockchain The first testing node was launched to low Earth orbit in 2018 on SpaceX and was the first generation of Blockchain to engage in the space race and quantum space revolution. Schedule to deploy the Plato Blockchain nodes in the 1st quarter of 2023.

The partnership between the space industry and Blockchain is mutually beneficial. Conducting transactions via satellites will provide an even higher level of security and decentralization to distributed ledger technologies like Plato and Qubit Blockchain. Consequently, the quantum infrastructure is protected against any physical intrusion.

Plato’s robust WEB3 platform and data execution, coupled with Quantum Generations’ quantum communications, data storage technology, and space-based Quantum Internet, will transform the digital economy and open up the last mile.

Additionally, the collaboration will present a chance to advance space technology. We have opened up an exclusive membership program for the QG Community. Every new member will receive a Web3 address from the Plato’s platform and be placed on the priority list for the QPhone and other products and services. “We are thrilled to be a part of such significant industry advancements. Furthermore, we are pleased to collaborate with a distinctive partner in Plato, which will now be the Fourth Blockchain to participate in this space race,” said Larry Castro, CEO of Quantum Generation.

The partnership represents a huge step toward the quantum space revolution and a new frontier.

About Quantum Generation

Quantum Generation is developing 24/7 access with new sovereignty worldwide under a decentralized, incentivized, secure, and private platform. Space-Based Quantum Ecosystem QUBIT Blockchain Satellites and Quantum Generation Quantum Mesh Network. Creating the QG (Quantum Generation) Space-Based Social Community. QGWave (Quantum Frequency), transforming our global infrastructure in quantum communications, space-based banking, exchange, data storage, Decentralized social platforms, and more with QSAT quantum secure satellite constellation.

Video: https://youtu.be/Wskld60-dc0
Web: https://quantumgeneration.io

About Plato

Plato is an open intelligence repository and platform that curate’s the latest data intelligence across the innovation economy. The platform is designed to provide a safe and secure environment to consume sector-specific real-time data intelligence while delivering fully secure Web3 connectivity. Plato covers 27 Market Verticals across 27 languages. Plato’s mission is to drive the shift to Web3 by organizing the technology sector via real-time research access across multiple data sets including an organized taxonomy consisting decentralized directories; news and intelligence, regulatory information, company fundamentals, pricing and liquidity, data analytics, OnChain data, people directory, dApp directory and GitHub contributions to the registry. Plato was designed to seamlessly connect users with thousands of Defi specific applications

Web: https://platodata.ai
Video: https://vimeo.com/557585798

Blockpass and BlockOn Capital Partner over India Blockchain Week

Blockpass, the Safe Network for Crypto, is announcing a partnership with BlockOn, the worldwide blockchain venture builder & firm. As part of this move, Blockpass will provide information, updates and coverage of BlockOn’s events, and BlockOn has invited Blockpass to speak at its India Blockchain Week (IBW – https://www.inblockchainweek.com/ ) event, which covers a whole host of themes from NFTs to Governments to Start-Ups over its 7 days.

BlockOn incubates and accelerates projects which promote a better ecosystem for cryptocurrency and blockchain companies by leveraging its network, infrastructure, visibility and funds. BlockOn guides innovators in the development of their ideas and road maps, accelerates their development and customer acquisition efforts, connects with and secures investment and partnerships, and gains visibility through online and in-person community building efforts. In addition it also hosts blockchain events in the ASEAN region and beyond. Through its efforts, BlockOn is committed to revolutionizing the world and professionalizing the blockchain space.

Blockpass is a digital identity verification provider which provides a one-click compliance gateway to financial services and other regulated industries. Through Blockpass, users can create, store, and manage a data-secure digital identity that can be used for an entire ecosystem of services, token purchases and access to regulated industries. For businesses and merchants, Blockpass is a comprehensive KYC & AML SaaS that requires no integration and no setup cost. You can set up a service in minutes, test the service for free and start verifying and on-boarding users. Currently with more than one million verified user identity profiles, Blockpass facilitates instant onboarding, and thousands of companies have taken advantage of this opportunity to get access to users with reusable digital identity profiles.

“Working with those who set out to help others is always rewarding, so partnering with BlockOn is a real pleasure for us.” said Blockpass CEO Adam Vaziri. “It’s been a tough couple of years for events thanks to COVID, but now things are beginning to return we’re delighted to be invited to such a significant event as IBW to speak about Blockpass and the importance of regulatory compliance.”

“BlockOn is a pioneer in the crypto and blockchain space since 2017 when Bitcoin was not forked. Basic KYC & AML standards were never discussed at Crypto Conferences. Blockpass has a SaaS solution that requires no integration and no setup cost to start verifying and onboarding users. Government Agencies in India will be happy to see Blockpass which can help regulators to see advanced compliance standards in the crypto industry,” said Siddharth Pandya, Head of Partnerships at BlockOn.

Blockpass has grown significantly in size and use since its inception, both in the number and range of users and organizations it has partnered with and the scope of its work. Blockpass continues to develop its digital identity protocol with updates and additions to improve the compliance experience. The existential need for DeFi projects to be regulatory compliant and the recent integrations have led to a surge in interest for Blockpass’ On-chain KYC(TM) solution which promises to change the way blockchains enable compliance. Through its recent work with Animoca Brands, Blockpass is developing the ability to provide KYC where the delivery of the verification result is provably sent and shown on a blockchain without sharing the underlying data. This represents a significant step towards the future Blockpass hopes to bring about where identity verification can be proved without revealing any personal information at all.

About Blockpass
Blockpass is “the Safe Network for Crypto”, with millions of crypto enthusiasts who are pre-verified through bank-grade KYC/AML and who can reshare their profile with a single click. Existing and new Blockpass users are verified by the fastest, cheapest, fully stacked KYC/AML technology in the crypto sector and provided with Blockpass’ unique product balance of user-centric data security and KYC profile reusability. Blockpass’ network is essentially a highly dynamic permissioned decentralized database of known users, with financial incentives for stakeholders and users to improve and continually maintain data with users’ permissions. Other innovative features include crypto ownership proof for FATF Travel Rule compliance, an activity-driven reputation system, “clean crypto” – the whitelisting and blacklisting of crypto wallet addresses, as well as mitigation against bots and fraudulent identities. In 2021, Blockpass introduced its On-chain KYC(TM) solution that enables customers to access zero-knowledge verification of users so they can access probably completed verifications and adhere to standards without seeing the underpinning data. In 2022, Animoca Brands and Yuga Labs were the first to utilize On-chain KYC(TM), verifying over 150,000 users in the $320 million Otherside NFT sale – the largest to date in Crypto sector history. The Blockpass App is available from the App Store and Google Play.

For more information and updates, please visit and sign up to the following:
Website: http://www.blockpass.org
Email: sales@blockpass.org

About BlockOn Capital
BlockOn Capital is a worldwide blockchain venture builder/ VC firm providing acceleration and advisory support to global innovators in blockchain and emerging technology. BlockOn Capital helps innovators from seed to deal, guiding innovators in the evolution of their idea and road maps, accelerating their development and customer acquisition efforts, connecting them with secure investment and partnerships in order to help them gain visibility through online and in-person community building efforts. In addition to their client services, they are the premiere hosts of the most impactful blockchain events in the ASEAN region and beyond. They are committed to revolutionizing and professionalizing the blockchain world.

MEXC Global Lists $MYST by Mysterium Network, a Cryptocurrency to Fight Growing Internet Censorship Worldwide

Major cryptocurrency exchange MEXC Global has listed $MYST token by Mysterium Network (www.mysterium.network), the Swiss-based Web 3.0 company challenging the $30 billion VPN industry with its next-generation anonymity network.

Trading of the MYST-USDT (www.mexc.com/exchange/MYST_USDT) pairs opens at 12:00 p.m. UTC on Thursday, July 14, 2022.

The VPN market is estimated to reach more than $77 billion by 2026. With increasing censorship, shutdowns and surveillance online, over a quarter of the world’s internet users depend on a VPN for daily internet access. Most recently in Sudan, authorities cut off access to the internet to disrupt anti-government protests being held nationwide.

Internet disruptions also come at a great cost to the global economy. In 2022, a total of over 19,000 hours of downtime cost the worldwide economy more than $10 billion.

“These kinds of internet shutdowns are becoming common practice by governments around the world. Saldy, they are increasing in number, rather than slowing down. While there are some great initiatives and campaigns to call out these abuses of power, including from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, we need to focus on building internet infrastructure and tools that are resistant to shutdowns and censorship,” says Donatas Grinkas, Head of Mysterium Network.

Mysterium’s open-source web infrastructure is making the internet borderless and accessible for all. The network is made up of tens of thousands of exit nodes spread across more than 130 countries. These nodes are run by everyday people using devices such as computers and Raspberry Pis to share their IP addresses to users and businesses around the world in exchange for MYST, a utility token native to the network. There are already thousands of nodes around the world earning passive income daily (https://mystnodes.com), providing a secure line of communication and access to the open internet.

This peer-to-peer marketplace lays the groundwork for all kinds of services to be built, including the project’s flagship product, the Mysterium VPN (www.mysteriumvpn.com), available for Android, Windows, Mac and Linux (iOS in 2022). Developers and entrepreneurs can build encrypted, censorship-resistant tools using the open APIs, while businesses can plug into the network via the B2B service, Lavafy. Launched in 2020, Lavafy is already being used by five VPN clients.

“Regular VPNs are just a band-aid fix for what is a deeply flawed infrastructural problem, which is why we’re trying to build a solution that fixes things on the deeper protocol and networking level. Peer-to-peer networks like ours allow users everywhere to easily share web resources with each other, such as storage, computing power and now internet access. The goal is to ensure information flows around the web freely, without any unethical blocks from self-interested corporations and governments,” says Grinkas.

More information about Mysterium can be found at mysterium.network
Discover the dVPN at MysteriumVPN.com or run a node and earn crypto with MystNodes.com

About Mysterium Network

Mysterium Network is an open-source ecosystem of tools and infrastructure making the internet borderless and accessible for all. Founded in 2017 in Switzerland, Mysterium’s protocol is designed to break virtual barriers, giving users equal access to information. Anyone can join the peer-to-peer marketplace to rent their unused bandwidth and IP address to a global community. The project’s flagship product, Mysterium VPN, is available for Android, Windows, Mac and Linux.Mysterium held a successful token sale through which it raised $14 million CHF.

Unocoin Collaborates With CleverTap to Offer Its Users Omnichannel Customer Experiences

CleverTap, the modern, integrated retention cloud, today announced it has partnered with Unocoin, India’s first crypto exchange, to optimize, accelerate their user engagement, and provide a seamless omnichannel customer experience.

Through this collaboration, and by integrating CleverTap’s solution into its app, Unocoin is now equipped to better understand user behavior and has the ability to create segments based on user activity, demographics, and other parameters. Unocoin will also be able to create hyper-personalized campaigns to engage with its audience across multiple channels at the right time with precise communication.

“As a platform that helps individuals with investments into cryptocurrencies, we need to be cognizant of the exact needs of our users. Understanding a customer’s behavior on our app becomes vital as this helps us provide a tailored experience. Since awareness and understanding of cryptocurrencies at large is at a nascent stage, delivering precise communication becomes all the more important,” said Suhas SK, Senior Vice President – Marketing, Unocoin Technologies Private Limited.

CleverTap enables Unocoin to keep track of app activity, in-app purchases, and returning users. Unocoin will also be able to personalize customer experience using real-time behavioral data with precise predictive recommendations, leading to engagement opportunities based on each user’s exact needs.

“We are delighted to partner with Unocoin in their journey to make investing in cryptocurrency easy for all. With CleverTap Retention Cloud, Unocoin will be able to hyper-personalize the experience for every investor.

Today, hyper-personalization is crucial at every point in a customer’s journey and is a key enabler to growth. We are confident that with our help, Unocoin will be able to grow and offer its customers exactly what they need,” said Vikrant Chowdhary, Chief Growth Officer, CleverTap.

About CleverTap
CleverTap is the modern, integrated retention cloud that empowers digital consumer brands to increase customer retention and lifetime value. CleverTap drives contextual individualization with the help of a unified and deep data layer, AI/ML-powered insights,and automation enabling brands to offer hyper-personalized and delightful experiences to their customers. 1,200+ customers in 60+ countries and 10,000+ apps, including Gojek, ShopX, Canon, Mercedes Benz, Electronic Arts, TED, Jio, Premier League, TD Bank, Carousell, Papa John’s, and Tesco, trust CleverTap to achieve their retention and engagement goals, growing their long-term revenue. Backed by leading venture capital firms, including Sequoia, Tiger Global Management, and Accel, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in Mumbai, Singapore, Sofia, Sao Paulo, Bogota, Amsterdam, Jakarta, and Dubai. For more information, visit clevertap.com or follow on LinkedIn and Twitter.

About Unocoin
Started in 2013, Unocoin is a Bangalore-based technology startup and is India”s first entrant into the bitcoin industry. The company operates India’s largest (in Indian customer base) BTC-INR trading platform which enables Indians to buy, sell, store, use, and accept bitcoin. At its peak, Unocoin processed transactions worth more than INR 2B per month for its 1,300,000+ customers. The startup has been featured among the Top 20 companies in The Fintech20: India List, and have won prestigious titles like ‘The Golden SABRE award’ in financial communications for the project, ‘Bit-by-Bit: Building Bitcoin in India’ and ‘TECH30’ award from YourStory.For more information, visit https://www.unocoin.com/in

Media Contact:
Sony Shetty
CleverTap
sony@clevertap.com

Vishaal Mudholkar
Consultant
Archetype
vishaal.mudholkar@archetype.co
+9724309069

Forward-Looking Statements
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The HBAR Foundation and BCW Ventures Launch a Market Development Fund to Accelerate Growth on the Hedera Network

The HBAR Foundation and BCW Group today announced a collaboration focused on the rapidly expanding ecosystem at the intersection of distributed ledger technology and digital assets, with an initiative that supports the development and growth of the Hedera network. Kyle Baron, Managing Partner at BCW, and his team will lead and manage an all-encompassing Market Development Fund (MDF) to onboard prominent early-stage projects looking to build on Hedera.

BCW is a global fintech-focused strategy consulting and technology firm that works alongside industry-leading partners and clients to scale digital asset infrastructure, remove friction points, and enhance customer experiences to reimagine how the world does commerce. The BCW MDF furthers the HBAR Foundation’s support of the Hedera ecosystem by leveraging BCW’s expertise in Web3 infrastructure and experience in building scalable digital asset products for Fortune 500 clients. In collaboration with the HBAR Foundation, BCW will continue to identify, incubate, and develop innovative DLT solutions foundational to the growth of next-generation decentralised applications on the Hedera network.

The MDF is looking to fund projects focusing on (but not limited to)

  • Web3 Infrastructure
  • Decentralised Finance
  • NFT, Metaverse, and Gaming
  • Interoperability

BCW has worked closely with Hedera on a wide range of initiatives since 2018 including hashport, the first interoperability bridge connecting Hedera with the EVM world and TOKO, the enterprise grade digital asset tokenization and issuance platform. BCW has also been a proud sponsor of the Hedera Hackathon since 2020.

BCW Ventures enables developers and startups to benefit from BCW’s in-house technology and consultancy experts, proprietary multi-chain interoperability and data analytics solutions, and global network of industry founders and partners. BCW grant applicants benefit from the HBAR Foundation’s continued technical, marketing, and operational support in addition to other members of the BCW family, like hashport, a multi-chain interoperability solution connecting the Hedera, Polygon, and Ethereum networks that makes making dApp migration and token integration to Hedera easier than ever.

To apply for an MDF grant, apply online at https://www.hbarfoundation.org/apply-form and select ‘BCW’ from the Grant Category dropdown.

About BCW Group
BCW Group is a fintech-focused strategy consulting and technology firm with a strong footprint building products & businesses in the digital assets & distributed ledger technologies (DLT) industry. Our mission is to scale digital asset infrastructure, remove the friction points & enhance the customer experience to achieve ubiquity in the utility of digital payments, web 3.0 applications & connectivity of an on-demand digital universe. Our business lines include payments, consulting, technologies, products, research and ventures. We have built products in the areas of blockchain interoperability (hashport), data-analytics (Blockpour), tokenisation (TOKO), staking and IaaS tools (Arkhia).

What makes us unique is our ability to not only re-imagine and design the next generation of digital commerce, but to build the applications of the future alongside our world-class partners & clients.

Learn more about BCW Ventures at bcw.group or follow us on Twitter and on LinkedIn.
– Twitter: https://twitter.com/bcw_llc
– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bcw-group2019

About the HBAR Foundation
Founded in 2021, the HBAR Foundation fuels the development of the Hedera ecosystem by providing grants and other resources to developers, startups and organizations that seek to launch decentralized applications in DeFi, NFTs, CBDCs, ESGs, gaming and other sectors. In addition to providing funding through a streamlined grant process, the HBAR Foundation acts as an integrated force multiplier through expert support across technical, marketing, business development and other operational functions that are required to scale.

For more information, please contact:
Rufus Daniel
The HBAR Foundation
rufus@hbar.fund

SOURCE: The HBAR Foundation

TrueFi powers WOO X’s institutional services through decentralized loans to verified clients

TrustToken, the core team responsible for building the leading unsecured lending protocol TrueFi unveils its collaboration with WOO X, a zero-fee digital asset trading platform incubated by Kronos Research, the leading digital asset quant company and market maker. WOO X will use TrueFi to support its institutional services by issuing loans to its clients through the protocol.

The amount of value locked into the smart contracts powering decentralized finance (DeFi) services soared in 2021, and despite some fluctuations in the first months of 2021, the ecosystem is still very much in the green year-on-year. While lending has emerged as one of the most lucrative DeFi applications for both retail and institutional clients, decentralized lending protocols still largely have to rely on over-collateralization to avoid risks, which makes the service capital-inefficient. With its total of more than $1 billion loans originated in 2021, TrueFi ups the DeFi lending game by enabling loans to verified institutional borrowers through its lending protocol.

WOO X will rely on TrueFi as the lending protocol of choice for uncollateralized loans to its institutional clients in its native WOO token, making it TrueFi’s first non-stablecoin portfolio. WOO DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization working to foster the growth of the WOO Network, will provide the tokens for the loans, with all yields returning to the WOO DAO. The financial institutions trading on the WOO X platform have been verified through KYC measures, and the loan principal will only be released into their WOO X wallets. Due to TrueFi’s protocol technology, this type of transparency will show WOO token holders where DAO funds are moving.

The uncollateralized lending program follows an update of WOO X’s staking program, which now allows institutional clients to stake 600,000 WOO tokens to trade without fees through the platform’s API. The update has prompted demand for WOO loans among financial institutions looking to gain access to the service fast and with reduced risk exposure.

“Uncollateralized on-chain lending is the most capital-efficient credit a financial institution can get,” says Rafael Cosman, CEO of TrustToken. “Our first non-stablecoin portfolios are further testimony for how versatile TrueFi lending can be, supporting any digital assets at all–Bitcoin, Ether, and other top coins are also very much a possibility. We are excited to be reimagining loans for the 21st century as we work to push TrueFi’s total originated loans to $10 billion.”

“The institutional interest for crypto is soaring, and readily-available capital is one of the key conditions for big players to delve deeper into the space, especially in the current climate,” says Ran Yi, Chief of Ecosystem at WOO Network. “We are thrilled to be partnering with TrueFi to grant institutions fast and efficient credit through DeFi’s first uncollateralized lending protocol. By giving traders more flexibility, we enable more usage of the network, which ultimately benefits the entire ecosystem.”

About TrustToken

TrustToken is building the protocol for global lending. TrustToken’s TrueFi protocol brings uncollateralized lending and credit scoring on-chain, offering borrowers the highest possible capital efficiency at competitive rates, while offering lenders the broadest marketplace of financial products in DeFi. TrueFi has completed over $1B in loan originations with a perfect record of repayment.

The company’s TrueCurrencies are the world’s first independently-verified, fully collateralized stablecoins, trading on top exchanges like Binance, Huobi, and OKEx, generating billions in monthly trade volume. TrueCurrency users enjoy lightning-fast transactions, the lowest transaction costs of any stablecoin, easy exchange to and from fiat currency, and obsessive customer service.

Start using TrueFi at https://truefi.io, or learn more about TrustToken products at https://trusttoken.com.

For interested borrowers or asset managers looking to build financial products on TrueFi, please contact ryan.rodenbaugh@trusttoken.com.

About Kronos Research

Kronos Research is a leading quantitative trading company and cryptocurrency market maker, headquartered in Taipei. Founded in 2018, it grew its daily trading volume to about $5 billion per day while working to build an infrastructure for democratizing investment and trading with both traditional and crypto-assets. WOO X is its digital asset trading platform listing a wide array of coins and tokens, as well as futures contracts pairing $PERP against a variety of popular digital assets. The exchange relies on the WOO Network for liquidity, with WOO DAO working to foster the development of the ecosystem.

For more information, visit https://kronosresearch.com/

Metabook Launches Web3 / Metaverse Reserve System

Metabook announced today the launch of a Web3 rating system and is launching an influencer program, aimed at returning hope to the crypto ecosystem.

For that purpose, there is the first Ranking of Web3 leaders fighting against the wrong statements about “crypto winter”, and an XR program with the tagline “Ikonic. Own the moment”, with fan art contest dedicated to Johnny Depp. Depp was fighting the lies, and Web3 leaders do the same.

Metabook has created infrastructure, to be used for Web3 Reserve system that is the hedging mechanism for partners of our Sharing Economy. The Metabook mission is to make researches and take into Reserve pool the top rated NFTs, digital assets, to use them in XR campaigns and hedge the value. Facts show that there is no crypto winter, but a lot of patient venture capital allocated to bridge us into another bull run.

Web3 Bull Run needs:
– A new innovation trigger (like DeFi or NFTs) for a new form of native value.
That Value Is Coming From Metaverse Format Shifting, Backed by Meta Alliance
– A mass support by influencers. When influencers supported NFTs, it started booming.
– Big Tech executives don’t make a living off of media activities, so they can lie to the audience, when it is in their interest. Now, their interest is to replace the old workforce, and they tell us about “signs of recession, Winter”.

According to CB Insights, there are now 1,146 unicorns, 1000 more than there were in 2016 (and about 100 have become unicorns this year).

Top-20 Metaverse heroes who inspires the hope in a new innovation cycle.
Thanks to Jamie Burke and other open Metaverse / Web3 leaders. There is Metabook top-20:

1. Tal Eliashiv. Managing Partner at SPiCE Venture Capital
2. Bill Tai, Metagood founder
3. Matthew Ball. www.matthewball.vc/the-metaverse-primer
4. David Namdar. www.davidnamdar.com/portfolio
5. Jamie Burke (and the entire Outlier!)
6. Chris Hitchen. He invested in more than 100 startups and worked as venture partner with VC funds EQT Ventures, Project A and SquarePeg Capital prior to establishing Inventures, the Inventures Collective and now Possible Ventures.
7. CZ. Binance founder
8. Hrish Lotikar. CEO at SuperWorld. Ex-Global Evangelist at Toptal (backed by Andreessen Horowitz, this company now is hiring thousands of IT/marketing profs).
9. Sandeep Nailwal, Polygon founder
10. Alesis Ohanian, Reddit founder, his new fund is focused on this area.
11. Brendan Wallace
12. Brendan Blumer
13. Bryan Feinberg, Plato / W3 Networks
14. Tomasz Tunguz, Redpoint
15. Kathryn Haun
16. Gigi Levy-Weiss, NFX
17. Jeff Jordan (Andreessen Horowitz)
18. Fabrice Grinda
19. Niko De Jonghe
20. Sheridan Tatsuno.

Metabook will return Johnny Depp, to return the hope to the market

Metabook’s Rating Methodology, based on Cycle of Market Emotions, has the answer
to the market crash situation.

Toxic people. They make problems for good people. It is right in the Depp – Heard
case, it is right in the markets crash situation.

Metabook’s public appeal to Mark Andreessen: Why don’t you embrace a bold PR
strategy, like Johnny Depp, defeating the dominant public opinion, directed by toxic
media?

About Metabook:

The Metabook is an International Metaverse blockchain platform, aimed at doing crowd ratings and decentralized distribution of innovative technologies from these ratings.
Metabook platform is a community-driven Reputation platform: top rated digital assets will be taken into a Reserve pool, to share the benefits with the community.

“Ikonic. Own the moment”
https://www.facebook.com/MetabookHealth/

Source: Metabook.Digital

Moonstake Now Supports Staking of ORBS on Polygon Network

Moonstake is pleased to announce that our users can now earn interest from staking ORBS token on an additional chain – Polygon – on both the Web and Mobile Wallets! Hold, send, receive, and stake ORBS on both Ethereum and Polygon Network to earn multi-chain staking rewards with the best user experience through one single click!

Previously in April 2022, we initially integrated support for Polygon chain, specifically enabling users the ability to hold, send, receive, and own MATIC coin as well as MATIC tokens. As an official Guardian of Orbs Universe via strategic partnership with Orbs Network since March 2021, Moonstake is proud to bring our community as well as ORBS users globally the ORBS multi-chain staking experience on Ethereum and now Polygon!

Moonstake started the staking business last year with the aim to create the largest staking network in Asia. Since then, we have developed the most user-friendly Web Wallet and Mobile Wallet (iOS / Android) with support for over 2000 cryptocurrencies. After a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, Moonstake’s total staking assets have grown rapidly to reach $1 Billion, allowing Moonstake to become one of the top 10 staking providers globally. Since March this year, Moonstake has also entered DeFi together with the newly launched DeFi platform, Muse.Finance, who has begun releasing its core DeFi products which are all scheduled to be integrated into Moonstake platform to enable advanced DeFi connectivity for our global users.

Meanwhile, Orbs recently rolled out its Orbs 3.0 upgrade which utilizes Orbs’ unique features, designed for interoperability with EVM and non-EVM blockchains, to be set up as a separate decentralized execution layer operating between the base blockchain layer and application layer.

The Orbs Network is powered by the ORBS token, which is used for the settlement of fees and provides the system of incentives for election of Guardians (the Orbs validators) using Proof-of-Stake consensus. It is accessible across eight major chains: Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Solana, Avalanche, Fantom, Harmony and Cronos. The protocol’s expansion to Polygon Network was based on Polygon’s market prominence as a leading layer-2 project on top of Ethereum that is one of the market’s biggest blockchains for Web3 builders, boasting over 7,000 DApps in its developer ecosystem which features numerous big names – from DeFi projects such as lending platform Aave to luxury brands company Dolce & Gabbana and NFT marketplaces including OpenSea and Mark Cuban’s Lazy.com. Deploying Orbs staking on Polygon capitalizes on the advantages offered by the Ethereum stack in order to achieve both scalability and low fees as well as high security, while also offering users the flexibility to stake and earn with whichever chain they like.

How to stake ORBS on Moonstake Wallet
Here’s a simple 3-step process to stake ORBS with Moonstake Wallet
1. Register your Moonstake Web wallet
2. From the wallet screen, select ORBS on Polygon and click the “Stake Now” button.
3. Confirm the staking information, then click the “Staking” button and enter your wallet password.

How ORBS Staking Works
Hold ORBS Token and no minimum amount for staking.
Agree to lock in and stake ORBS.
The gas fee for transactions will be in MATIC tokens of Polygon instead of ETH like staking ORBS on Ethereum.

How to get rewards of ORBS staking
Token holders that delegate to an active Guardian are rewarded in proportion to their stake. Annual reward is up to 6.67% of the Delegators staked tokens.

*Delegators are ORBS token holders who assign their voting weight (stake) to Guardians, empowering them to maintain security and uphold the long term vision of the ecosystem.

How ORBS unstaking works
If token holders want to send an asset that is currently staked, they will need to unstake it first. The unstaking of tokens will take a full 14 days before they become available, therefore you will not be able to send the tokens immediately. The period during which the tokens cannot be transferred is called the “cooldown period”.

Expanding the staking feature of ORBS to Polygon is another step in Moonstake’s effort to promote the adoption of crypto staking as we continue to provide more options and value to crypto users worldwide, and our close working relationship with partner Orbs Network will ensure a satisfactory staking experience for our users. We have previously held a number of campaigns for ORBS users, including webinar, quiz, and giveaways, and we are always working to organize more valuable programs for the community. Please stay tuned for more updates from us!

About Moonstake
Moonstake is the world’s leading staking service provider that develops and operates decentralized wallet services for businesses and individuals. Since its launch in April 2020, Moonstake has partnered with 27 leading platform providers, including Cardano’s constituent Emurgo, developer of the Polkadot-connected blockchain Astar Network Stake Technologies, and the TRON Network with over 50 million users. In May 2021, Moonstake further enhanced its corporate credibility by becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of OIO Holdings Limited, a company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. Using blockchain technology, Moonstake aims to progress toward a world where anyone can easily make use of highly secure and reliable digital asset management tools. https://www.moonstake.io/

About Moonstake’s staking business
For the staking industry, which has grown into a 630-billion dollar market as of September 2021, Moonstake provides a decentralized staking service that does not require user deposits, and supports nodes around the world in addition to its own validator nodes. Moonstake currently supports the staking of 12 blockchains. With a total staking assets of 1.8 billion USD and a global user base, the company ranked third out of more than 10,000 providers worldwide in June of the same year.

About Orbs
The Orbs Network is an open, decentralized and public blockchain infrastructure executed by a secure network of permissionless validators using Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus. Orbs is set up as a separate decentralized execution layer operating between existing L1/L2 solutions and the application layer, as part of a tiered blockchain stack, without moving liquidity onto a new chain. Orbs acts as a “decentralized backend”, enhancing the capabilities of existing smart contracts and opening up a whole new spectrum of possibilities for Web 3.0, DeFi, NFTs and GameFi. Orbs was founded in 2017 and launched its mainnet and token in March of 2019. Orbs is being developed by a dedicated team of more than 30 people, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul. https://www.orbs.com/

About Polygon
Polygon is the leading platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all major scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 7000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~100M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured. If you’re an Ethereum Developer, you’re already a Polygon developer! Leverage Polygon’s fast and secure txns for your dApp, get started here. https://polygon.technology/

The Bazaars Project launches peer-to-peer marketplace app to Exchange goods, vehicles or property for crypto

  • Exchange goods, vehicles, or property for crypto on Bazaars

The Bazaars Project has launched its peer-to-peer marketplace app in the Apple App and Google Play stores. The app allows users to buy and sell goods, property, and vehicles with cryptocurrency. This milestone is significant for the Bazaars Project’s mission to create a proof-of-stake blockchain network and a decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace.

“The crypto market value is more than $2 trillion. There are thousands of cryptocurrencies and most of their value so far has come from speculation and trading rather than their ability to be exchanged for any tangible goods or assets. The Bazaars Project is aiming to change this by providing a marketplace where people can buy and sell everyday products and valuable assets using cryptocurrency,” said Cryptomoe, founder of the Bazaars Project.

The Bazaars Project has also launched BZR, its ERC20 token. The token is now available on the Uniswap exchange, with other exchanges coming soon. Token holders will earn a percentage of the transaction fees collected from the Bazaars marketplace.

Future phases of the project will enable users to create and deploy smart contracts and decentralized apps individually or in groups without the need for a third party.

The Bazaars marketplace app is not bound by national or regional borders. Customers can shop securely and privately from any location. The Bazaars app does not collect, store, or track sensitive data. Users can register using their mobile phone numbers and email addresses and the app will only collect information required by the app stores.

“We believe in a world where anyone can buy products privately and securely, no matter where they live or what currency they use. Payments need to be easy, instant, and private. And the ability to trade needs to be in the hands of buyers and sellers,” added Cryptomoe. “The future of commerce is online, with crypto. Bazaars wants to help make crypto commerce a reality.”

The Bazaars marketplace is using Coinbase Commerce for payments. Its delivery and logistics partner is Aramex, a global provider based in the UAE, one of the worlds’ largest trading hubs.

About Bazaars Project
The Bazaars Project was established in September 2021. It was set up by a group of experienced entrepreneurs and investors to provide a proof-of-stake decentralized blockchain network to drive crypto commerce adoption worldwide. Visit https://bazaars.io to learn more.

Media Contact:
Raja Al Khatib, Chairwoman
The Bazaars Project
00447 787152900
info@bazaars.io

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