Nilos provides the one-stop shop for businesses to connect crypto wallets, bank accounts and PSPs and manage all their treasury operations such as tracking incomes, reconcile money flows and make payments across crypto and fiat seamlessly.
The round was led by Viola Ventures, Fabric Ventures and Mensch Capital Partners. Over 20 angels also participated in the round, including: Yuval Tal (Founder at Payoneer), Sebastien Borget (Co-founder at The Sandbox), Emmanuel Schalit (Founder at Dashlane), Benjamin Seror (CPO at SimilarWeb), Didier Valet (Ex Deputy CEO at Société Générale), Guillaume Houzé (Galeries Lafayette)…
There’s a growing number of businesses that handle dual crypto/fiat treasuries simultaneously or that would not onboard to crypto because of its complexity.
The idea of dealing with two different financial systems; multiple accounts to track, volatility, compliance issues, and reconciliation problems.
Nilos was founded in 2021 by Raphael Fettaya and Eytan Messika and provides a platform that allows businesses to:
Connect all their accounts through one single interface
Track all their crypto and fiat transactions in one unified ledger
Reconcile their payments
Schedule and route effective crypto to fiat payouts (off ramp)
Extract detailed financial/accounting reports
Nilos also takes care of the AML/compliance that lies behind it:
Monitor incoming crypto transactions to spot suspicious source of funds
Provide custody services to store crypto accounts
Performs KYB onboarding
In 3 months, the team has grown to 10 people based across Israel and France and has worked with a number of NFT platforms, brands and agencies.
“I’m excited about our close collaboration with Nilos. I believe they play a key role in companies’ adaptation of web3. Their product is a perfect fit for our mission of helping owners of music rights take their first steps into the world of web3.” Sebastian Ljunberg, CTO at Anotherblock
“We are big believers in web3 infrastructure plays. The Nilos team is solving a huge gap, bridging financial and treasury services for both web2 and web3 companies who are looking to embed on-chain revenues with their fiat operations in a seamless, compliant and secure way.” Omry Ben David, General Partner at Viola Ventures
“As a business, freelancer or creator, once you have a wallet setup, it’s the easiest thing to accept payments using the blockchain payment rails, but it’s everything that comes afterwards that’s difficult. Anything to do with managing income (treasuries), storing currencies safely, exchanging these to stable currencies, using the right chain from acceptance to withdrawal, using the right exchange to offramp and doing this in a legally compliant manner with the right documentation is extremely difficult and a fragmented manual process right now. I’m really happy to be partnering with the guys at Nilos, to solve this key missing piece of financial infrastructure which will make crypto more widely accessible.” Anil Hanjsee, General Partner at Fabric.vc
Concordium is proud to raise the bar for carbon credits and announce a partnership with Carbotanix (CTX), one of the most data-driven carbon offsets on the market.
In an effort to restore trust in the offset process by making it data driven and transparent, Carbotanix’s carbon offset token is going to be built entirely on the Concordium blockchain, the world’s first, science-backed blockchain with an ID-layer at the protocol level designed with sustainability and governance in mind.
Developed through remote sensing and continuous monitoring, Carbotanix provides one metric tonne of CO2 offset while Concordium’s identity framework makes it possible for the first time to trace ID back to the source.
This innovative solution, which combines remote sensed data with blockchain technology to ensure a new level of trust, was devised to combat greenwashing practices like double-counted credits, which is essential to achieving net-zero emissions. While global carbon markets grew to $272 billion in 2020, they may still need to grow fiftyfold for companies to meet 2050 net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goals. Concordium’s ID framework guarantees that only verified partners can issue carbon credits thus scaling the market with trust at the very centre.
Additionally, Carbotanix ensures a fair distribution of profits, with 51% staying with the beneficial landowner partner and 20% being reinvested back into reforestation, eco-restoration and expansion.
“Carbotanix team has, after a thorough market due diligence process, chosen Concordium as the right blockchain partner, in order to launch the first in class data validated carbon sequestration units, that will be the golden standard of carbon credits on the blockchain. The Concordium Team has shown excellence in all aspects of the project development process and we feel comfortable to launch the CTX token via the CCD ecosystem,” says Andre Rafnsson, CEO at Carbotanix
“Sustainability has always been a priority for Concordium, from the Proof of Stake consensus mechanism to the programming language, all our choices are always working towards the best practices. Being chosen by one of the most data driven carbon offset on the market is an honour for us,” said Lone Fønss Schrøder, CEO of Concordium.
Esperanza, a charitable organisation established in 2018 to advocate new ways to learn, live and work, will partner with the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE) and The University of Hong Kong to organise the inaugural 2022 EdTech Month from 8 October to 8 November in Hong Kong. The EdTech Month will bring together experts and innovators in education technology (EdTech) from around the world to promote the applications of EdTech as a catalyst to drive the development of Hong Kong as a digital economy and society.
Talent Crunch
Aging population, changing life aspirations and in particular accelerating demands for digital skills have aggravated talent shortages worldwide. The World Economic Forum predicted that by 2025 half of all employees around the world will not have the skills to keep up with the changing nature of jobs. Outdated learning programmes will further exacerbate the skills mismatch in the future.
In Hong Kong, according to the 2021/2022 Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management Training and Development Needs Survey, 91% of the respondents saw the importance of reskilling and upskilling their employees but the average training hour per employee annually was only 14.1 hours. 94% of the respondents have introduced e-learning and cited the lack of engagement and interactions as the top challenges.
EdTech as a Talent Development Tool
“EdTech is a catalyst to reinvent the outdated learning system; and a propeller to develop the skills and talents that Hong Kong urgently needs to maintain its competitiveness in the digital century,” said John C Tsang, Founder of Esperanza. EdTech refers to the applications of technology in teaching and learning, from K12, higher education, enterprise learning to lifelong learning. From simply moving learning contents online, there have been increasing adoptions of digital technologies like AI, blockchain, data analytics and immersive technologies to make learning more engaging, personal, collaborative, inclusive and effective.
2022 EdTech Month
The Covid-19 pandemic has made remote/hybrid learning and work a new normal, fuelling demand for EdTech solutions. According to HolonIQ, the EdTech market was valued at USD 254.80 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach USD 605.40 billion by 2027. EdTech investment in 2021 amounted to USD20 billion, representing three times the pre-pandemic level in 2019. But EdTech in Hong Kong is still at a nascent stage.
The EdTech Month aims to encourage the applications of EdTech as a catalytic strategy to develop, reskill and upskill Hong Kong’s talent pool. It will also showcase examples from around the world on how academic institutes, businesses and governments can work together to develop a 21st century workforce. The EdTech Month comprises three programmes available in online or hybrid formats:
A half-day webinar on how technology can facilitate self-directed learning for K12 and higher education students with practical advice and sharing from experts from the US and Hong Kong, including Richard Culatta, an internationally renowned educator and the CEO of ISTE.
A one-day hybrid event at The University of Hong Kong featuring talent development trends in Asia, how emerging technologies like AI, data analytics and web 3.0 technologies can innovate workforce development and how the public, private and academic sectors can build a learning innovation ecosystem together.
Highlights include the most revolutionary university (Minerva University), the largest curated enterprise e-learning platform (Go1) in the world, China’s largest higher education partner (Huikedu Group), the biggest executive learning centre in Southeast Asia powered by EdTech (Catapult in Singapore), the region’s EdTech investment specialist (Kaizenvest), and four 2022 Edventures Global Business Acceleration Fellowship winners from Denmark, Spain, Sweden and the US demonstrating how they use technology to personalise higher education (Analytikus), facilitate collaborative learning (Eduflow), empower the global supply chain workforce (Quizrr) and assess 21st century skills for learners and employers (Territorium).
This Summit will provide a virtual networking platform powered by Gevme, whereby online and offline attendees can send messages, arrange instant video calls and schedule meetings with one another. A pre-event gathering will be held on 7 October to familiarise the registrants with the networking platform. The virtual exhibition of the Summit showcasing the EdTech solutions will open from 7 – 30 October 2022.
HKU Teaching and Learning Festival (14 October – 8 November)
The Festival comprises different events showing HKU’s teaching innovations and a global forum on 8 Nov for higher education institutes and the business community to discuss how we could nurture a VUCA-proof workforce.
Special Offers to EdTech Month Participants
Admission is free to all EdTech Month events. The 8 October and 14 October Summit participants will also enjoy respectively a complimentary ISTE U online course on “Digital Literacy in the Classroom” and a one-month trial account from Go1 with over 100,000 bite-size courses for up to 5 people in an organisation.
“With the e-learning experience in the last two years, it is high time for educators, employers and policy makers to learn how they can leverage emerging digital technologies to make learning more effective and relevant to the needs of the 21st century . The EdTech Month will also be of interest to people who are looking for business, ESG and investment opportunities in the fast growing EdTech market,” Tsang added.
The National Innovation Agency (NIA) continues its efforts in adopting governmental 5F policy (Food, Flim, Fashion, Fighting, Festival) to promote the creative economy and Thailand’s soft power innovations with startups in MARTech (Music, Art, and Recreation). With aims to elevate the potential of the local music, art, and recreational startup community, the NIA set course to utilize the 3 key innovations and technologies: AI, AR/VR, cloud computing, and the blockchain and gear up to revitalize the country’s economy in the post-pandemic era.
Dr. Pun-Arj Chairatana, Executive Director of NIA revealed that: “2021 and 2022 are the years where the word ‘Soft Power’ has become a national buzzword. The phenomenon, initiated by a few influential people in the art and entertainment industries, has sparked interest nationwide and helped generates income for entrepreneurs across the country. According to the Global Soft Power Index 2022, Thailand scored 40.2 points and ranked 35th place out of 120 countries. Impressively, the score has stepped-up by 1.5 points which reflects the surge of demands in media, communication, culture, tradition, and influence on tourists and the global community. Although the concept of soft power in Thailand is not entirely new, it is exciting and surely demonstrate a promising future as the national brand to attract people from around the world. In brief, it means creative economy accelerator.”
“The NIA has set out guidelines to support startups in MARTech community with aims to elevate the potential of talented people in the university in running innovation into a real business as well as funding access. The development focuses mainly on transforming valuable culture and creativity into value-added products and services. To market Thailand’s cultural innovations properly in the global arena, the agency has been working closely with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through Thai embassies in more than 30 countries. The collaboration emphasizes the top 15 countries ranked on the Global Innovation Index such as Finland, Switzerland, France, and Sweden. These major innovation cities are where innovators reside. Therefore, it is an ample opportunity to promote Thailand’s MARTech startups as well as the country’s soft power using diplomatic tactics. It is estimated that MARTech will be worth 1.5 trillion baht, or an average growth of 6% by 2022. However, NIA targets to increase the number of MARTech startups to reach at least 45 by 2022. MARTech startups will be one of the main engines accelerating economic recovery as well as boosting the country’s GDP.” Said Dr. Pun-Arj.
In addition, to assist MARTech startups to earn recognition and growth, the NIA has also assessed technologies and innovations that will help boosting the growth of Soft Power in Thailand and globally. Innovations and technologies are utilized to create products that offer a new experience for consumers including;
AI: Presently, AI technology is being applied to creative industries – from songwriting, and book writing, to creating arts. It is expected that up to 32 percent of the human workforce could be replaced by AI in less than 10 years.
AR/VR: a thriving industry offers users a one-of-a-kind virtual experience unlike the physical world – from playing games, enjoying the concert, playing sports, to visiting museums. The NIA has helped encouraged startups in these segments by piloting various projects to create tourism experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as organizing several virtual events. The AR/VR industry is forecasted to exceed $95 billion worth by 2025.
Blockchain: It is recognized as the future of data management, especially for trading of creation ownership and copyrights management. Blockchain helps eliminate intermediaries between artists and consumers, and at the same time, help simplifies the process of contracting and artist rights management. Creators are eligible to value their creation of music, art, and or any kind of masterpieces. The platform also allows content creators to keep track of work consumption across all platforms.
“Utilizing innovations to add value to the 5F cultures required efforts and firm collaboration from both the government and private sector. The support from the government is therefore crucial whether it is funding or policy making. As for the NIA, we aim to reinforce MARTech startups to create a distinctive image among investors and global innovation developers, where other countries have generated hundreds of billion baht. Ultimately, the goal is to help placing Thailand on the high-ranking position of the Global Innovation Index.“Dr. Pun-Arj concluded.
SOURCE The National Innovation Agency (NIA), Thailand
BORANETWORK (representative Gyehan Song) launched global gamer community cooperative BORA Alliance on the 19th.
BORA Alliance is a cooperative aiming to expand the BORA ecosystem across the world through cooperation with promising overseas gaming guilds and communities. Ancient8 and GuildFi will be the first partners to join the cooperative.
Ancient8 is developing the infrastructure for GameFi, with a focus on software and community. Ancient8 manages Vietnam’s largest blockchain gaming guild and provides blockchain software products, guild scholarship, blockchain education, institutional-grade research, and community with their vision to democratize social and financial access in the Metaverse.
GuildFi is the largest blockchain gaming guild in APAC with over 280,000 members. They use web 3.0 platforms to manage communities and are briskly cooperating with leading investors such as Defiance Capital, Coinbase and Binance.
Through the launch of the cooperative, the BORANETWORK intends to expose the on-board games on BORA directly to users and carry out a range of collaborative campaigns and marketing activities to increase the contact point. Furthermore, the cooperative plans to contribute to expanding the territory in the blockchain game market by engaging various promising partners continuously, thereby increasing contact points with major communities.
CBO Vincent Lim (Youngjun Lim) of the BORANETWORK said, “We are very pleased to have promising partners, Ancient8 and GuildFi, in the launch of the BORA Alliance,” adding “We will spur the expansion of the BORA ecosystem in the global market through the launch of the BORA Alliance.”
Scorpion Yachts will be the first in the world to convert half of its charter fleet totaling 8 million in Miami, The Hamptons, Ibiza, Mallorca and St Tropez to co-owner Non-Fungible Token-NFT based on smart contract technology on the blockchain with an annual fixed return.
Co-ownership NFT
Half of the ownership per Scorpion Yacht is issued through co-ownership NFTs from 4.500 euros each at 7% interest per year. Scorpion Yachts NFTs are freely tradable at all times on the secondary market such as www.opensea.io
“SYC is the world’s first hybrid Web3 community by having fun at our events and offering discounts to our members.” Founder, Dirk Oerlemans
First Hybrid Web3 Community
Scorpion Yachts established www.scorpionyachtclub.com, also the world’s first hybrid Web3 club, with online and offline events and special member rates for renting boats, sports cars and houses. They offer annual memberships that are cheaper to buy and non-volatile, unlike their future more expensive perpetual NFT memberships, which are also tradable on the secondary market and get your investment back. As limited edition SYC NFT memberships will be launched in 2023, they will remain scarce.
Car & Yacht Rally
As a member you can take advantage of worldwide online and offline local events. For example, in the spring there is a SYC Car & Yacht rally in Miami and Amsterdam with the closing party at the Scorpion Yachts in Ibiza.
Residents
Residents in Miami, The Hamptons, Ibiza, Mallorca and St Tropez can enjoy all the luxury of a yacht without the hassle of renting or owning it at a much lower cost. Members also have the option to get back up to 50% of the annual fee by offering their profitable high season days for external charters.
Hyperledger Foundation, the open, global ecosystem for enterprise blockchain technologies, today announced news from across its diverse and expanding ecosystem at Hyperledger Global Forum 2022 (#HyperledgerForum, HGF). From launches and releases on the Hyperledger project front to new products, partnership, deployments and innovations from Hyperledger Members, there is a surround sound of developments being unveiled at this week’s event.
The opening keynote today addresses one of the biggest developments on the horizon. The talk, Hyperledger Besu and the Upcoming Merge, will feature Tim Beiko of the Ethereum Foundation and Hart Montgomery, CTO of the Hyperledger Foundation.
Decentralized Identity: Where We Are and Where We Going – Heather Dahl, CEO, Indicio; Kaliya Young, Identity Expert, Identity Woman; Marie Wallace, Distinguished Engineer, IBM; Drummond Reed, Director of Trust Services, Avast
Free live streaming of keynotes is available here.
“The energy and excitement of the global Hyperledger community is on full display here at Hyperledger Global Forum,” said Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, Hyperledger Foundation, and General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation. “From demos and workshops to keynotes and case studies, there is endless evidence of the scope and scale of what we are building together and the growing market impact of this collective work. And, as this line-up of news from across the community shows, we are just getting started. The innovation and adoption will only accelerate from here.”
Project and Ecosystem News
New Project: Hyperledger Solang The Hyperledger Technical Steering committee approved a new project, Hyperledger Solang, which is a compiler for Solidity source code and targets different blockchains. The Solidity programming language is the most popular language for smart contracts, and there is clear interest from many blockchains to have support for it. Although some blockchains emulate an EVM environment to maintain compatibility with Solidity built with Solc, they then cannot access features that are missing from Ethereum. Hyperledger Solan offers the ability to compile Solidity to the native execution environment, opening up access to new features and creating many possibilities for innovation in the Solidity language.
Currently, Hyperledger Solang supports Solana and Polkadot (Substrate).
Hyperledger FireFly 1.1 Release A new Hyperledger FireFly release, version 1.1, includes new functionality that makes it possible for FireFly users to deploy multiple blockchain applications connecting to multiple chains from a single console. The FireFly Supernode now supports two operation modes: Web3 Gateway and Consortium. Web3 Gateway mode configures the FireFly Supernode to connect to a number of chains with transaction orchestration and state indexing. A revamped and expanded connector framework now includes EVMconnect, a robust connector for simple connection management to public blockchains with templates available for Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, BNB Chain, and more. Consortium mode activates a number of capabilities for FireFly nodes to connect in a B2B network and exchange data through off-chain and on-chain rails. FireFly also now supports multi-tenancy through the use of namespaces. These new features enable enterprises to accelerate their web3 adoption.
Creation of Hyperledger Cacti In a Hyperledger first, the community has decided to merge two systems (architectures as well as code bases). Hyperledger Cactus and Weaver, a Hyperledger Lab, will come together to be Hyperledger Cacti, a multi-faceted interoperability platform that will draw on the cutting-edge technical features of Cactus and Weaver and provide a clear path forward for users of both technologies.
Hyperledger Besu Client Incentive Program Kicks Off The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has opted to include Hyperledger Besu in the Execution Layer Client Incentive Program (ELCIP) to foster the community development of enterprise-grade blockchain software. The program, which kicks off with the Merge, will provide execution-layer client teams with locked ETH in the form of live validators to be released according to certain milestones, including post-merge performance and progress towards enabling withdrawals from the beacon chain.
Hyperledger Besu is one of the top three most popular Ethereum execution clients according to Ethernode. EF is making this strategic investment to engage the Hyperledger Besu community in ensuring a diversity of clients and overall health of the network.
“The diverse community is what makes Ethereum special, empowering from builders in underserved or emerging economies to leading enterprises and beyond,” said Aya Miyaguchi, Executive Director at Ethereum Foundation. “Similarly a diverse client distribution helps keep Ethereum distributed and healthy, and I applaud the Hyperledger Besu team for their Execution Layer work for Ethereum, and wish you all a great Global Forum this year.”
New, Free “Getting Started with Self-Sovereign Identity” Course To make it easier for enterprises to implement Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) to put their users at the center of their digital identity, Linux Foundation Training & Certification has released a new online training course, Getting Started with Self-Sovereign Identity (LFS178x). The free, six-to-seven hour course is geared to business and government decision makers looking to get started with SSI on a solid foundation. The course provides a 360 degree overview of its evolutionary journey, key concepts, standards, technological building blocks, use cases, real-world examples and implementation considerations.
BTP – announced the general availability of its blockchain-backed, domain-agnostic provenance solution Chronicle. Organizations across industries can now take advantage of Chronicle’s capabilities, and keep immutable provenance records that capture the origin and life journey of their physical and digital assets, including ownership history. By recording it on a distributed ledger, provenance information becomes more trustworthy, and its management is more efficient. Chronicle is available with Hyperledger Sawtooth as its default backing ledger, with support for other industry-leading distributed ledgers in the pipeline. Read the full press release here.
BTP – upgraded its blockchain management platform Sextant, by adding support for the distributed ledger software Hyperledger Fabric 2.0. Fabric is now joining Hyperledger Besu and Hyperledger Sawtooth, which the company’s clients have already been using in production. Sextant’s makeover also includes a marketplace for deployments that will allow users to easily select the option that best suits their needs and use case requirements. Chronicle on Sawtooth will now appear as a new deployment option – in this marketplace – that clients can choose. Read the full press release here.
Espeo Blockchain – recently connected Microsoft Sharepoint technology with a transparent and immutable layer of Hyperledger Fabric for HLB, which is a global network of independent advisory and accounting firms. The new blockchain backend is a game changer in terms of transparency. It’s because only verified, approved and standardized data points will be added to the blockchain ledger. At the same time, users still work with the same Microsoft UI they are used to. That enables member firms to access and verify referral and project data in real-time. It also eliminates the need for a siloed process of reconciliation, which makes settlements far simpler and more reliable. More information is available at https://espeoblockchain.com/
Indicio – recently announced the launch of Indicio Proven, a complete, open source solution for authenticating and sharing high value data in a privacy-preserving way using verifiable digital credentials. Built on Hyperledger Aries, Hyperledger Ursa, Hyperledger Indy, AnonCreds, and DIDComm, Proven is designed to make implementing and using these open source codebases simple, providing users with a fully-owned solution that’s easy to integrate with existing systems, to innovate on, and to scale. Proven uses the Indicio Network (TempNet, TestNet, DemoNet, MainNet), a professionally maintained, enterprise grade Hyperledger Indy-based network for the exchange of verifiable credentials. Learn more at Indicio.tech.
IoBuilders – has coordinated, designed and implemented a digital bond platform as partner of the Spanish Stock exchange BME. Using the platform, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), with the help of BBVA, issued a two year $10 million blockchain-based bond, the first Spanish bond to be listed on a regulated market. The platform uses a private network based on Hyperledger Besu Ethereum client, where the bond and the money are tokenized, and overall security and cash payment are settled. Read more about it here.
Kaleido – has introduced support for enterprise App Chains, an exciting technology allowing the creation of highly scalable, application-specific chains that can connect to the Web3 ecosystem via bridges or rollups. The first App Chain framework to be supported on the Kaleido Platform is Polygon Edge, and we have formed a partnership with Polygon to accelerate enterprise web3 adoption. Kaleido is also pleased to announce that Hyperledger FireFly version 1.1 is now supported on Kaleido’s Blockchain Business Cloud. With the new functionality in FireFly, users will be able to manage multiple blockchain use cases from a single console and connect with leading public blockchains including Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Moonbeam, Fantom and more.
The National FinTech Center at Morgan State University– announced The 3rd Annual National HBCU Blockchain and FinTech Conference. This conference is The Center’s premier event for connecting with university leaders, faculty, and students discussing today’s challenges and opportunities, and shaping the future of FinTech education and research. On November 06-08, 2022 in Orlando, FL, The National FinTech Center will provide a forum for the faculty, students, and administrators in the FinTech Center’s HBCU Network to hear and discuss the findings of sponsored research, outcomes of sponsored innovative blockchain projects at various HBCUs, FinTech workshops, and HBCU Presidents’ Summit: Digital Transformation, Research, and Education at HBCUs. Click HERE for more information. Any questions, please contact [email protected].
SIMBA Chain – recently released SIMBA Blocks, a Smart-Contract as a Service platform. Blocks allows users to build on private, public and hybrid chains, including Hyperledger Fabric, with no chain lock-in. The SIMBA Blocks platform auto-generates virtual REST APIs that connect to smart contracts on various protocols – letting you write once and deploy to many with minor configuration. These chain-agnostic APIs simplify application integrations, reducing deployment times by weeks or months. Learn why companies like Boeing (using Hyperledger Fabric to track F/A-18 parts across four data warehouses) rely on SIMBA Chain for their blockchain solutions at simbachain.com.
Zeeve – introduced a major upgrade to its platform, a best-in-class offering for enterprise-grade Hyperledger Fabric automation. Now users can add more organizations to their deployed Hyperledger Fabric networks on runtime and scale up/down the number of nodes. Zeeve has also improved network monitoring & alerting and added the ability to directly download connection profiles of Fabric networks to applications. In addition, in addition to support for Golang, Zeeve has added NodeJS chaincodes support in CD pipelines using Zeeve CLI. Learn more: https://www.zeeve.io/blockchain-protocols/deploy-hyperledger-fabric/
Zeeve – launched IPFS as a service for decentralized applications with two options:- endpoints and dedicated nodes. The focus has been to make it very easy for any business application to switch to the power decentralized file storage without having to worry about the learning curve of infrastructure or development. This has been possible with the ZDFS (Zeeve Distributed File System) service, which allows users to have dedicated or shared endpoint services for IPFS, while ZDFS SDK makes integration with IPFS very seamless. Users can create access credentials for their applications for data APIs as well as pinning services of IPFS. IPFS comes with console-based resource management and an in-depth analysis of consumption for ZDFS services. Learn more: https://zeeve.io/zeeve-distributed-file-system/
Pixpel, an early-stage Mexican based start-up has been awarded the “Free and Open Grant ” by the Concordium Foundation to bring an innovative type of “insurance policy” concept to the NFT gaming market.
The soon-to-be-launched P2E platform, Pixpel, will provide a variety of services, including an NFT marketplace and insurance policy to ensure the play-to-earn sector can match Concordium’s signature commitment to safety and accountability in every aspect of Web 3.0.
As the first decentralized blockchain with identification at the protocol level, helping facilitate regulatory compliance, Concordium shares Pixpel’s ambition of a legitimate and secure ecosystem for the development and trade of NFTs with in-game utility.
Pixpel’s insurance policy will protect users’ safety and rid the P2E sector of scammers looking to cash in on the lack of regulation and security in the space, thereby giving rise to a safer and more enjoyable Web 3.0 gaming community with a restored reputation.
“Play to Earn makes it possible for anyone to earn money playing their favourite games -an opportunity that has (up until now) only been reserved for the very best at grand tournaments. Unfortunately, the P2E sector has seen scammers looking to cash in on the lack of regulation and security in the space. Pixpel will collaborate with Concordium blockchain to provide the security and accountability the gamers need in order to feel safe.” says Torben Kaaber, Head of Business Solutions at Concordium.
Pixpel founder, Juan Vivas says: “I was 6 years old when I started playing games and fell in love with them, I still play. Later in my life, economics piqued my interest. The Play to Earn games are where my two passions met. I was deeply excited to see the sector growing and becoming an important part of the crypto metaverse, but just as saddened, because of the problems it faced. After a group of my friends suffered because of another mishandled project, I decided to use my knowledge and make the P2E space a better place – the idea for Pixpel was born. Together with Concordium and my team, we are determined to write a new, better page, in the history of P2E.”
RRMine Global, a filecoin storage company that offers global cloud-computing asset management platforms, has officially announced closure of its business operations in Mainland China and shifted its headquarter to Singapore. Since its inception, RRMine has been addressing the lack of liquidity in Web3.0, which led it to become the world’s leading Filecoin platform. Moving forward, RRMine Global is committed to provide a one-stop service to Filecoin storage providers and aims to become the most trusted Filecoin solution provider in Web3.0.
The decision to wholly withdraw from Mainland China came about in light of the tightened restrictions on cryptocurrency usage in the Mainland and was solidified by the fact that China’s Web3.0[1] strategy is going in a different direction.
“Very much like other entrepreneurs, we want the best for our company, employees and community. The decision has been made after a profound examination and multiple discussions, and it has not been easy to come back from a downfall, especially when RRMine Global has continuously provided services to all its users globally without fail despite all the events that happened. From today onwards, we would like to move forward and recreate the prosperous scene from China in Singapore.” shared Steve Tsou, the Global CEO of RRMine Global.
As Singapore has been one of the world’s most open economies for a long time and has been touted as a welcoming hub for crypto businesses and activities, it has directly opened the path for China’s crypto businesses to consider it as a hub for them to relocate[2] to including RRMine Global. In line with Singapore’s vision to become a global crypto economy hub[3], RRMine Global continuously develops and expands globally to ensure accessible standardised Hashrate.
In the first step towards a new start, RRMine Global announces ‘R-Datacap Storage’, a newly upgraded service that will significantly reduce operational costs, increase yield effectiveness, and drive the Filecoin incentive plan. “Unlike other blockchains where users can typically store tiny amounts of data at a high cost, Filecoin’s storage is designed to store large files. We are taking the lead in Web3.0 technology research and development to create a more efficient system for tackling the issue. Data storage providers will receive ten times the output incentive under the FIP-0012 proposal, which Filecoin approved. We are excited to bring this innovation to RRMine Global and Filecoin users very soon. It will undoubtedly be a game changer for our storage industry,” Steve added.
Back in Mainland China, RRMine Global has achieved spectacular success by winning a number of awards. In 2019, RRMine won The Excellent in Technology Innovation Award at Fintech Summit USA 2019 and The Golden Globe Award at FINWISE Summit 2019 (Hong Kong), while in 2020, they won InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) Most Influential Companies 2020, and FAT Storage Brand of The Year 2020. These were only some of the awards they have won in the past years, the full list of awards can be found here.
Samsung Goldex announced that it will actively promote the establishment of “Gold & Crypto Asset Bank”, a new decentralized financial institute, combining the conventional gold exchange with the DEX. More specifically, the blockchain-based ledger is introduced in the gold market to cover digital gold platform and gold NFTs, as well as gold money, the traditional valuable assets.
For this purpose, Samsung Goldex has signed the number of memorandum of agreements (MOAs) with banks and conglomerates in major cities worldwide, such as in Japan, China, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, the Middle East (Bahrain GCC), and Africa.
They further plan to create a blockchain ecosystem in cooperation with the Dash Gold Foundation in Indonesia and the Philippines. To support the framework of Samsung Goldex, Dash Gold Foundation has entered into partnership agreements with SADAD in Bahrain, Mandiri Bank in Indonesia, and Union Bank of the Philippines, as well as technical agreements (mainnet-based DEX standard) on blockchain with Bitmain and bmaill.
The cryptocurrency exchange, with Gold Stable Coin and Gold Token to be produced later, will be governed by the Samsung Goldex Foundation.
“The new attempt to establish Gold & Crypto Asset Bank, combining gold exchange and DEX, is expected to bring new vitality to the blockchain investment market based on stability and liquidity of gold even in recession and cryptocurrency downturn,” said the official of Samsung Goldex.
Meanwhile, the Samsung Goldex Foundation, Family Japan, and POS signed a contract for blockchain business and “Gold & Crypto Asset Bank” of Samsung Goldex Foundation. The three companies plan to initiate a decentralized banking business combining gold exchange and DEX in major global cities as well as Japan and India.
SOURCE Samsung Goldex
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