SINGAPORE, Apr 9, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Media Publishares, publishers of Vogue, Esquire, Robb Report and Buro in Singapore announce a partnership with VIDY to launch and develop an NFT platform catering to the fashion, arts and music industry.

Founded by Singaporean tech-preneur Matthew Lim and Harvard University alumni Patrick Colangelo, VIDY is a blockchain-powered digital advertising tool that rewards viewers with native cryptocurrency, VIDYCOIN. Having implemented VIDY's technology across Media Publishares' titles, the partnership between the two companies grew organically given their shared 'digital first' approach and innovative thinking.

The NFT platform slated to launch in Q3 of 2021 celebrates arts and culture within a 360-degree navigable virtual environment showcasing digital fashion, art, music and design. Key features of the platform include minting, trading and auctioning of NFTs through a tokenised system along with the ability to host social interaction.

Focused on building virtual creativity as a skill set while promoting sustainable consumption, the platform will donate a percentage of NFT sales towards organisations tackling real-world problems to ensure a positive connection between the virtual and physical worlds.

"The NFT market grew over 229% since 2020 to reach over USD500 million. However, it's still in early stages and has a long way to go with regards to infrastructure development. With the metaverse and rise of digital models, people will be able to live in a parallel virtual world where they can own a digital identity and purchase items not just in a digital file, but as any unique asset in their virtual land, similar to their physical world," says Lim.

"For this new NFT platform, VIDY will lead the technology and blockchain development given our unique experience in dealing with traditional businesses and crypto. We are confident we will create the finest platform that will boost the NFT world by allowing seamless participation from the traditional fashion, art and music communities."

The NFT platform will target a digitally savvy audience looking for luxury items with low environmental impact while also engaging creators exploring a virtual identity for their designs and new revenue streams for their craft.

"Media Publishares has always been ahead of the curve with its innovative approach to storytelling as lead by our anchor titles Vogue, Esquire, Robb Report and Buro Singapore", says Michael von Schlippe, President of Media Publishares. "What we see is a new creative renaissance where creativity and technology are driving change together. By creating an NFT platform, which essentially acts as a virtual marketplace between creatives and users, it allows us to provide a unique shoppable platform coupled with content for the community in the form of education, interaction and entertainment," adds von Schlippe.

Titles under Media Publishares have gained global recognition for their approach to content creation. Notable projects include Esquire Singapore's 'Artificial Intelligence Issue' that won Gold at the Native Advertising Awards in Berlin and Vogue Singapore's digital-only launch in August 2020 with a 360-degree microsite 'Vogue Studio', amongst others.

About VIDY

Established in 2016, VIDY was a San Francisco based video web tech start-up company founded by Harvard Undergrad Patrick Colangelo and former Credit Suisse Investment Banker Matthew Lim. In 2018, VIDY started to incorporate blockchain technology into its product to allow a decentralized reward economy to exist seamlessly across its publishing partners. Today, Vidy's technology is used by over 70 global media publishers such as the likes of CNN Indonesia, CNBC Indonesia, Vogue Singapore, Esquire Singapore among many others, with over 10bn of monthly page views of inventory, and a user exposure of over 150mn monthly. VIDY has two native cryptocurrency tokens; VIDY and VIDYX, both of which are integral to the Vidy Rewarding, E-Commerce and NFT Ecosystem. For more information on VIDY, please visit www.vidy.com.

About Media Publishares

Media Publishares is a dynamic media company that specialises in impactful storytelling characterised by creativity, captivating visuals and the engagement of innovative technology. Headquartered in Singapore, Media Publishares, previously Indochine Media, has over 10 year's experience in digital communication, luxury print publishing, and events across Southeast Asia. A full-service publisher with over 80 employees in the region – from editorial and events to video and design production – Media Publishares operates in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Philippines and is continuously expanding its portfolio to further strengthen its presence in the publishing industry. Anchor brands currently include Buro, Esquire, Robb Report, Luxury Guide and Vogue Singapore. For more information on Media Publishares, please visit www.mediapublishares.com.sg

Media contacts:

VIDY, Singapore
Matthew Lim
matthew@vidyasia.com
+65 9238 0988

Media Publishares, Singapore
Natasha Damodaran
n.damodaran@imv.com.sg
+65 8322 8851

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BEIJING, Mar 31, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Blofin has raised US$10 million in its series A+ round of financing, led by SIG, followed by Matrix, Lingfeng Capital, Superchain Capital, Jackdaw Capital and others.

At present, Blofin's current global assets under management (AUM) has reached US$120 million, and averages an aggregated monthly trading volume throughout all crypto of over US$14 billion. As a Cayman Island registered digital asset management agency, its proprietary quantitative database covers over 40+ exchanges worldwide through real-time data and is connected with over 200 global quantitative trading teams.

With this new round of financing, Blofin will work to cover more trading platforms, service additional trading institutions around the world, enhance data mining efforts, and optimize investment models. Blofin is close to securing additional digital asset management licenses for Hong Kong, Singapore and other global financial centers around the world.

As Blofin continues to expand its business, please feel free to reach out at any time!

Media Contact:
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SINGAPORE, Mar 31, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Today, Moonstake is proud to announce the entry into the DeFi market together with Muse.Finance.

The Staking and DeFi Boom in 2020, Top Staking Provider Moonstake Joins The DeFi Space

In January, 2021, Moonstake officially announced its entry to the DeFi sector. Today, with over 800 million USD in total staking assets, Moonstake is the top 8 biggest staking provider in the world. In less than one year since launch, Moonstake achieved rapid growth in both product development and a strong positioning in the market. Moving towards the DeFi sector, Moonstake welcomes applications from DeFi products looking to connect to its powerful staking network.

Though the concept was almost unknown back in 2019, the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has experienced an explosive growth in 2020. According to DeFi Pulse, while it took almost two years for DeFi deposits to reach USD 1 Billion in Total Locked Value (TVL) as of Q4 2019, it took less than six months (March to July 2020) for DeFi TVL to spike from ~USD 550 million to ~USD 4 billion (~727% increase). Today, the DeFi TVL sits at $42.6 billion.

As of 29 March 2021, the market cap of all Proof-of-Stake (PoS) protocols is $450 billion and the total value locked in staking is $127.66 billion. In August 2020 when interest in DeFi was rapidly increasing, it was forecasted it should take from 3 to 5 years for the value of staked assets to surpass $100 billion due to increasing adoption of PoS grows, but it was achieved within only a year.

What is Muse.Finance and How Does It Fit into The Moonstake Ecosystem?

Muse.Finance is a Decentralized Platform where crypto users can receive staking rewards while gaining interests of lending through wrapped assets, and at the same time participating in the yield farming. Its ecosystem, which consists of Muse Swap, Muse Lending, and Muse Wrap, enables a liquid PoS platform that integrates the ERC-20 DeFi Ecosystem with Ethereum 2.0, starting from Cardano and expanding to Polkadot, Solana, Oasis, Terra, Centrality, and more using advanced cross-chain technology.

Muse.Finance initially links non ERC-20 assets with the ERC-20 ecosystem, allowing owners of staked assets on platforms such as Cosmos, IRISnet, Cardano, etc. to participate in lending, liquidity mining, and yield farming, which eventually enables connecting other chains. The platform will also be highly scalable thanks to being linked to the staking pools operated by Moonstake. Having completed its PoC, Muse.Finance currently has a working MVP and along with its Roadmap, wrapper and swapping will be launched in May 2021, and the yield farming and the lending functionality will be added within this year. The concept paper of Muse.Finance is available here ( https://muses.finance/assets/file/Concept%20_Paper_Ver.%201.0.pdf ).

Muse.Finance is a project by Shogo Ishida, the Senior Advisor of Moonstake. He is also known as former CEO of QRC, the esteemed blockchain and RegTech firm that sponsored the world's first Security Token Specification provides for the technical specification and cross-blockchain publication of security tokens, covering tokens issued on any distributed ledger system, independently facilitated and published by BSI, the UK National Standards Body.

Shogo Ishida, the Founder of Muse.Finance says: "Lending, liquidity mining, and yield farming are all high-demand applications of DeFi today. Muse.Finance has been developed to enable the community access to these valuable DeFi services within a robust ecosystem with world-class scalability thanks to integration with the Moonstake staking pools as official partners. After much hard work, we're excited to finally show you the value of Muse.Finance this year. Please look forward to Muse.Finance's major roadmap developments throughout this year."

Mitsuru Tezuka, Founder of Moonstake says: "Moonstake is entering the DeFi market with Muse DeFi to facilitate and expand access to DeFi by working to resolve staking illiquidity. We will also be widely accepting applications from DeFi products that wish to connect to the Moonstake platform. As one of the top 10 global staking providers trusted by investors and wallet users across the globe, Moonstake's connection with DeFi through Muse.finance will support the development and dissemination of high-quality DeFi products through our powerful network."

Looking Ahead

The launch of Muse.Finance marks Moonstake's first entry to the DeFi market with a unique cross-chain platform that enables people to participate in valuable applications of DeFi including lending, liquidity mining, and yield farming.

Muse.Finance will launch its first products in May, Wrapper and Swapping. Then, it will gradually reinforce its DeFi platform with Lending Platform and Yield Farming within this year. The roadmap is available here ( https://muses.finance/assets/file/Muse.Finance.pdf ).

Learn more about Muse.Finance here: https://muses.finance

About Muse.Finance

Muse.Finance is a Decentralized Platform where crypto users can receive staking rewards as well as participate in wrapping, swapping, lending, and yield farming to gain benefit. Its ecosystem, which consists of Muse Swap, Muse Lending, and Muse Wrap, enables a liquid PoS platform that integrates the ERC-20 DeFi Ecosystem with Ethereum 2.0, starting from Cardano and expanding to Polkadot, Solana, Oasis, Terra, Centrality, and more using advanced cross-chain technology. Muse.Finance also links non ERC-20 assets with the ERC-20 ecosystem, allowing owners of staked assets on platforms such as Cosmos, IRISnet, Cardano, etc. to participate in lending, liquidity mining, and yield farming. https://muses.finance

About Moonstake

Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies.

Moonstake aims to be the largest staking pool network in Asia by providing an active environment for crypto asset holders. Establishing a clear partnership roadmap with Moonstake represents another significant milestone for continuing to strengthen ties with leading platforms across Asia's burgeoning Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ecosystem. Partnership has been announced with Emurgo, Ontology and NEO to boost staking adoption, Binarystar, Japan's biggest blockchain hub, OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO), a Singapore-listed company. Industry's reputed advisors, such as Lisk and Lawrence Lim of RAMP DEFI support Moonstake's innovative journey.

With a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, we expanded our business and as of now, our total staking assets exceeded over USD 800 Million. https://www.moonstake.io/

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HONG KONG, Mar 30, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Blockpass is enthusiastic to disclose it will be providing compliance services to a range of new solutions and projects launching Initial DEX Offerings (IDOs) on Prostarter. With Blockpass and Prostarter working together, KYC and AML provision will be quickly and easily accessible to all participants, ensuring security and regulatory compliance in the DeFi space.

Prostarter is a community-centric and transparent DeFi cross-chain platform offering project fundraisings, token sales, and much more for the Crypto community. Prostarter is now launching its IDO platform and wants to include a "One Time KYC" feature supported by Blockpass to overcome the hassle of multiple KYC submissions for every project IDO.

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.

"We're excited to be working with Prostarter to bring KYC services to a huge number of people as we see a surge of interest in IDOs with this current wave of DeFi development," said Adam Vaziri, Blockpass CEO. "Our goal at Blockpass is to remove the pain points of compliance and with the range and quality of users on Prostarter's IDO platform, we have the privilege to bring our revolutionary and efficient solution to a new and expanding audience."

"We are aiming to provide a safe and transparent DeFi launchpad for our Crypto community which is why we have joined hands with Blockpass. There could be nothing better than Blockpass for us to verify the information of Prostarter users," said Aaamir Ahmad, Prostarter CEO.

With a current 90%+ discount on its services, a fact made possible due to the unique reusable nature of its verification method, and put in place to help as many people as possible access KYC in the current pandemic, there has never been a better time to explore the potential of Blockpass. The Blockpass App is available from the App Store and Google Play.

About Blockpass

Blockpass, the pioneer of On-chain KYC(TM), is a fast, fully comprehensive KYC & AML screening software-as-a-service for blockchains, Crypto, Defi and other regulated industries. With Blockpass, you get an unmatched set of benefits for any compliance service that includes pay-as-you-go, no setup cost, no integration necessary, free testing, immediate launch and at the lowest cost. Blockpass' KYC Connect(TM) platform enables businesses to select requirements for customer onboarding that can include ID authentication, face-matching, address checking, AML ongoing monitoring and/or screening of sanctions lists, politically exposed persons (PEP), and adverse media. Through Blockpass, end-users easily create a verified portable identity that they can control and re-use to onboard with any service instantly. By integrating with Chainlink Network – a decentralized oracle solution – in early January, Blockpass introduced the first On-chain KYC(TM) solution that will service many blockchains in the years to come.

For more information and updates, please visit and sign up to the following:
Promotional video: https://youtu.be/SvO2cw3e-SI
Website: http://www.blockpass.org
Email: sales@blockpass.org

About Prostarter.io

Prostarter is a community-centric and transparent DeFi launchpad platform, offering token sales, NFT marketplace with launchpads ecosystem, and much more for the crypto community. Along with launching its $PROT token, Prostarter is welcoming IDOs on Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and TRON blockchain networks.

Follow Prostarter For Upcoming Updates
– Website: https://prostarter.io/
– Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProtOfficial
– Medium: https://prostarter.medium.com/
– TG Group: https://t.me/Prostarter
– TG Ann: https://t.me/prot_ann
– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Prostarter
– Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGP3EtVL-A2Bpt83BOeaBkA
– Token Contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0x2341dd0a96a0dab62aa1efb93d59ff7f3bdb8932

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Singapore, Mar 30, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Dora Factory (DORA) successfully completed its HEXA launch on the 21st and 22nd of March, completing its IDO, otherwise known as Initial DEX offering. The launch commenced on the 21st with DEX including DuckStarter, gate.io & MXC and continued the following day with Bounce and WeStarter. The IDO signalled the public sale of 10,000,000 DORA tokens being distributed. Please note that these tokens are currently ERC-20 type tokens, compatible with the Ethereum blockchain, but will be converted to native DoraChain tokens when the mainnet has successfully launched.

Dora Factory's Balancer Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool (LBP) ended on the 24th with 426061.4862 DORA selling in the 46.5-hour event. Following the LBP, DORA was listed at Uniswap, OKEx, Gate, MXC and ZB.

With more Decentralized Finance (DeFi) projects launching in the summer of 2020, Dora Factory will address governance challenges faced by these projects by providing decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) as a service, as SaaS products have thrived in the internet ecosystem the past decade. Building on its successful DORA Hackathons, the team behind Dora Factory hope to capture the momentum to propel its services forward to other blockchain sectors in future.

About Dora Factory

Dora Factory, the DAO-as-a-Service infrastructure for on-chain governance and open source ventures, has closed its second round of private sale.

DoraFactory official channel. Stay tuned!
ANN @DoraFactoryChannel
Official Website: Dorafactory.org
Main: https://t.me/dorafactory

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Japan: https://t.me/dorafactoryJPcommunity
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Africa: https://t.me/DoraFactory_Africa
India: https://t.me/dorafactoryindia

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