The collaboration team would utilize the cloud technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to introduce data management and identity securing platform with the goal of being the cheapest and most integratable to lower the barrier to entry for businesses of any size.

 “ShareRing is extremely pleased to work with Tencent Cloud in developing a world-first identity and document management platform.

We have strong confidence in Tencent Cloud’s capability as one of the most reliable, high-performance, and globally recognized cloud services providers in the world.” Tim Bos, CEO of ShareRing

The new project would first be launched in Southeast Asia, a region that has been heavily affected by the Corona Virus through travel restrictions. Both companies plan on combining technological resources together such as the combination of ShareRings distributed ledger technology (DLT) with Tencent cloud optical character recognition (OCR). This converts characters into text, helping improve the efficiency and accuracy of data entry. Tencent and shareRing plans on helping Southeast Asians with the developments they plan on building.

The ShareRing App

The ShareRing app is a travel platform that will allow users to have access to practically everything concerning travels ranging from hotel reservations, flights, insurance policies, car rentals and tour packages. To add all these, they are also working on an open World passport, the first anonymous contact tracing passport that can be integrated with e-visa on arrival system (eVOA), travel insurance companies, airlines, hotels and retail shops.

The app has already gotten large interest from leaders in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region and they are closely working with Thailand to introduce it in the country.

Both projects hope to solve the issue of projects competing over liquidity across all exchanges. It says that crypto assets today are distributed over 200+ exchanges and all projects are competing for a finite amount of liquidity. They plan to solve this by developing a decentralized platform where all liquidity from the entire crypto market will be aggregated into one platform. They would aggregate the order book, depth and price price discovery from all centralized and decentralized digital asset markets.

The product is called Orion Terminal, a decentralized gateway to the entire digital asset market.

Bonded Finance plans on developing an algorithm that will help aggregate, derisk and unlock 50 million in dormant value distributed amongst untapped digital assets. They would also allow altcoin projects that are qualified to borrow against their assets, or pool them and start earning.

The collaboration allows for locked and staked ORN tokens to be made available for yield generation via the Bonded Finance Smart Contracts.  Holders of ORN will have access to Ionic, Bondeds lending / borrowing product. This access will allow them to loan and borrow ORN, Access capital resources, earn as they hold and to also earn from the liquidity incentives.

Alexey Koloskov, CEO + Co-Founder of Orion Protocol states “With a shared mission of bringing greater liquidity, accessibility, and value to open finance, we’re proud to be partnering with Bonded Finance. This will enable ORN holders to further monetize their assets by unlocking even deeper yield generation opportunities, earn liquidity incentives, and loan and borrow ORN – all while furthering ORN’s utility within Bonded’s growing ecosystem.”

Orion protocol would help Bonded Finance by providing them with their protocol’s liquidity API which would allow for streamlined Liquidation of assets available on the Bonded platform thereby allowing it to perform a wide market sweep across all exchanges in the market to efficiently handle potential liquidations. The provision of the API by Orion protocol would allow Bonded finance to transact large quantities of assets strategically without risks associated with it.

Paul Mak, CEO of Bonded Finance, states, “To have a single-source liquidity provider amidst this fragmentation is a small miracle. As we move forward, Orion’s solution will allow us to list more assets and provide smaller projects with needed support. It’s a win for the space.”

Orion Protocol

It is built on the most advanced liquidity aggregator ever developed, Orion Protocol aggregates the liquidity of every single crypto exchange into one platform: providing a decentralized gateway to the entire digital asset market. In doing so, Orion is building a protocol on which to bridge the worlds of crypto, traditional finance, and real world assets.

Bonded Finance

The Bonded platform was created to incubate and deploy experimental, high-yield, smart-contract driven, financial instruments that push the bounds of open finance. Bonding is an algorithmic model that aims to unlock, aggregate and de-risk ~50 billion in dormant value distributed amongst untapped digital assets by allowing supporters of qualifying altcoin projects the opportunity to borrow against these assets or pool them and start earning.

The collaboration would allow individuals in the African regions to directly access the lending platform through the mobile money system. Such partnerships would allow users to deposit local currencies from their accounts straight into the lending DeFi protocol such as Compound, Dydx,Curve, YFI and other non-lending protocols existing on the DeFi platform. Partnerships that would allow this to happen would include MTN Nigeria and other top 10 MTN mobile money providers in Africa, they also partnered with the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System PLC.

ADD.xyz is built with the aim of creating bridges between centralized and decentralized finance, to do this they aim at partnering with centralized platforms with users who are very well interested in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. They partnered with major banking providers in Kenya back in August ,2020 thereby exposing their product to over 5 million population in Kenya. The partnership with MTN Nigeria and Nigeria’s Inter-Bank Settlement System PLC also helps them expose their DeFi protocol to over 201 million Nigerians. The lending platform will be able to accept the Nigerian Naira and Kenyan shilling for the first phase of the launch.

“Financial inclusion in East Africa has been significantly impacted by the wide adoption of mobile money services — led by Kenya — but the uptake has been slow in Africa’s two largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa. While South Africa’s more advanced economy often treats mobile money as a “nice to have”, the situation in Nigeria is quite different. There, just 40% of people have bank accounts, so the economy would likely get a boost from the expansion of mobile money services.”

How To Do It

Users will be able to deposit local currencies into ADD.XYZ local MTN approved accounts through the main platform. They then get assigned to the protocol and the amount of currency they wish to deposit into the DeFi lending protocol. Interest will also be paid back to the users mobile money account in a fully decentralized and instant solution.

Nexo’s internal exchange would allow its users to switch and exchange between different asset classes from their Nexo wallet, and also to change the collateral. The crypto lending platform plans on having a Mastercard which would allow users to take loans against their crypto holdings in real-time. The Nexo Mastercard is currently only available in Europe but they plan on expanding it to the United States and Asia as well.

Antoni Trenchev, Cofounder and managing partner of Nexo stated that the amount of registered users had crossed 1 million and that about half of that number are earning on fiat currencies while the other half are earning on their cryptocurrencies. He added that the company has processed more than $3 billion for their users in over 200 jurisdictions.

The company is also looking at ways to work with the Decentralized products and decentralized finance or protocol so as to build some products in the future on.

“But right now, we are focused on generating the highest possible yield for our clients and investors in a manner that we are fairly certain is very safe for them,” Trenchev said, adding that decentralization of their services is coming, “as soon as there are sustainable solutions” that will enable safety.

The crypto lending platform has had a long-standing relationship with the Litecoin community and founder, Charlee Lee. Trenchev noted that an announcement of their partnership had caused a 40% spike in the amount of deposit on the platform.

“And what we saw is a spike in deposits of litecoin. I think it went up to something like 40% the week after announcing it, so these were tangible results out of this partnership,” he said.

The company is looking to expand its business geographically and to enter into the United States with an office in San Francisco irrespective of the fact that their digital asset Nexo would most likely be regarded as a Security under the US SEC jurisdiction. Plans for expansion of offices have been put on hold because o f the global pandemic, CoronaVirus.

Just like every other societal sector, the educational sector is filled with fraudulent activities such as diploma forgeries. It is especially hard to verify each diploma certificate or educational qualifications manually since that presents a tough task to employers. The Government of Vietnam;s Ministry of Education (MOET) plans on limiting this through the adoption of the NQA System, which will provide a standardized process at the national level. This development would enable agencies to verify diplomas in a simple, accurate and economical way and without affecting the autonomous power of degree-granting institutions in the country.

TomoChain Blockchain is adopted because of its ability to handle near-instantaneous transactions at a speed of 2000 transactions per second (TPS) and it’s cheap fee of $1 for over 30,000 transactions.

The NQA System will provide MOET with a simple interface that allows them to receive, and organize digital diplomas. Diplomas stored on TomoChain blockchain are transparent and ensure data integrity due to its immutable nature. Certificates uploaded to the NQA system are tagged with a unique ID, which is provided to students upon graduation. Employers simply need to ask for this information and when provided by the graduate, the employers can simply log on to the NQA System to verify and authenticate the diploma record.

The NQA System development started in October 2020 and is expected to be completed before the end of the year, further developments would be made when necessary and additional features will be added.

Both companies will launch a public Bitcoin (BTC) Fund in Canada, the bitcoin Fund tagged CI Galaxy Bitcoin Fund will be a “closed-end investment Fund” with the aim of providing unitholders with exposure to Bitcoin via an institutional quality fund platform.

CI GAM has filed and obtained a receipt for a Preliminary Prospectus for the initial public offering of the CI Galaxy Bitcoin Fund (the “Fund”). CI GAM will act as the manager of the Fund while Galaxy Digital will function as the bitcoin sub-advisor for the Fund and will be in charge of executing all bitcoin trading on behalf of the Fund.

The Fund will offer Units of Class A at a price of $10 per unit and Class F units at a price of $10 during the Initial Public Offering (IPO). The offerings will take place in Canada and the units of the offering will take place on a “best-efforts basis in each territory.

Galaxy Digital

Galaxy Digital Capital Management L.P. is an affiliate of Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. (TSX: GLXY) (“Galaxy Digital”). Galaxy Digital currently operates four distinct business lines, which include: Trading, Asset Management, Principal Investments and Investment Banking. Galaxy Digital’s CEO and Founder is Michael Novogratz. The Company is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Chicago, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands (registered office) and New Jersey. Additional information about the Company’s businesses and products is available on www.galaxydigital.io. The news of the partnership comes after Galaxy Digital reported a large surge in trading volume up to 75% in the third quarter of 2020.

Fengari meaning Moon in Greek, is said to symbolize the starting point of KardiaChains 420 days Voyage announced previously. The testnet 3.0 will allow staking and implements full BFT dPos consensus.

The Fengari release achieved over 6000 TPS (Transaction Per Second) in the local development environment. It supports an almost-instant blocktime of 1 sec with a stable 5 seconds block time under the stress test. The testnet 3.0 Fengari handles the TX pools more efficiently compared to previous testnet versions thereby ensuring faster processing. Consensus implementation has been  improved significantly and it has led to the reduction of handshake time and confirmation time between validators.

“This testnet will technically be very close to the upcoming mainnet, starting with 21 genesis validators and five boot nodes to secure the network.”

The wallets and exposure has also been improved in such aspects as instant transactions Hash search, instant Faucet token reception, instant transaction loading and searchable single address transaction fully address available transaction history, UX and UI enhancement.

The development on Fengari is a culmination of many technical, UI, and UX improvements which the KardiaChain team gathered from the feedback and bug bounty reports from the community.

The team is also launching a Bug Bounty program with 1,000,000 KAI pool rewards. Users are asked to test and interact with Smart contracts, stake and become validators on the testnet through various activities in their campaign.

About KardiaChain

KardiaChain is a public blockchain focused on Interoperability, leading the race towards blockchain adoption in Vietnam by providing hybrid blockchain solution/infrastructure for major enterprises and government bodies. The goal is to build a complete blockchain ecosystem for institutions by leveraging 3 main components: gateway, infrastructure, and services. Gateway reduces entry barriers to onboard non-crypto users onto blockchain via user-friendly payment channels. Infrastructure refers to the interlinked public and private KardiaChain blockchain network for users and businesses to operate, leveraging our unique non-invasive interoperability. Services refer to traditional organisations that collaborate with KardiaChain to tokenize and decentralize their existing services/products to become more effective and efficient. After two years of preparation, it is finally time to bring blockchain to mass adoption.

https://www.kardiachain.io/

https://t.me/kardiachain

The launch of Mainnet comes with an active ecosystem and real world use cases including Nebula Genomics, a Crypto Safe Alliance (which includes Binance and others), enterprise partners. The Mainnet network will be fully backward compatible with Ethereum thereby allowing developers to easily port new or waiting Decentralized Application (Dapp’s) to the Oasis network. The team has already started development in deploying Ethereum Dapps to the Oasis Network, this development includes Uniswap and the data governance and privacy API parcel.

The Mainnet will support Confidential Computing, a process where data is kept encrypted and private even while being processed by a node on the network. Developers who wish to use this feature must have their applications built on ParaTime, applications built on ParaTime can leverage confidential compute to protect data while also getting the benefits of immutability and traceability of a blockchain.

The newly launched mainnet makes it possible for lesser or lower fees to be paid while developing on the blockchain. It is designed in a lightweight, scalable manner and prevents front running while allowing lower fees. This development is aimed at helping the DeFi sector since one of the challenges currently faced within the DeFi space is the high cost of transaction fees paid by users and smart contract deployers and Dapps.

The Mainnet is built using the same Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) runtime that Ethereum uses but faster and more affordable for prospective users. Developers can deploy their Dapps to the network if they want since it supports the entire Solidity tool chain.

Tallinn has been involved with lots of other enterprise after Skype was sold to eBay for approximately $2.6 billion in 2005. He is currently invested in Faculty AI, a London-based company that is focused on Machine-Learning systems. This company itself has received digital assets from Tallinn on two different occasions.

Tallinn gave Faculty 350 Ethereum (ETH) as at January 2018, he also followed up with a gift of 50 Bitcoin (BTC) which was worth $316,000 as at that time but is currently worth about $905,000 because of the recent surge in Bitcoins price.

He stated that investing with crypto assets was much easier and that converting to cash would have incurred Capital tax and therefore reduced the amount of the money that he was to donate to Faculty. He said that since he held most of his personal funds in cryptocurrencies, then he could choose to as well invest with it.

Faculty had to employ someone else that was currently working in a blockchain company and had the knowledge of how to do accounting for crypto since they were not up to speed with the blockchain technology at that time.

“Our accountants had to go and find someone else who was working on crypto and how to do accounting for crypto,” Faculty’s founder and CEO Marc Warner told the outlet.

The company is reported to have sold about $144,000 worth of Ethereum through 2019-2020 but still holding on to most of the crypto they received from Tallinn.

The collaboration would allow both parties to revolutionize the distribution of agricultural products. IOST plans to secure real-life use cases by securing high quality Dapp’s as the IOST ecosystem through this partnership.

Blocery aims to grow into a global project by leveraging the overseas network of IOST. The Blocery team is celebrating this partnership by holding an event that returns up to 99% of the payment amount as a reward at the agricultural products shopping mall operated by EZfarm, the parent company of Blocery.

“In the future of IOST, we will make a partnership in the practical field and prepare for the upcoming blockchain innovation. Through this, we will try to make a strong impact on the market by leveraging the technical advantages of IOST and adopting the technology into the leading countries of the blockchain.”

EzFarm, is the parent company of Blocery and is an agricultural start up with sales of 10M plus USD. The company is an Age-Tech company that combines agriculture with IT technology and provides platform services such as smart farm, farm production management, direct sales and distribution of agricultural products.

IOST has employees that are working remotely in various countries such as Japan, China, Singapore, Korea, and Spain. The foundation strives to gain practical development and adoption in each country.