PARIS, FRANCE, Mar 18, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – The Lugh Company announces the creation of the first French digital asset pegged to the Euro, in partnership with Coinhouse, a leading French player in crypto-asset investments for individuals and professional investors, in a trustworthy environment built with key experts such as Societe Generale. As a first step, the Lugh (EUR-L) digital asset will be made available on the Coinhouse platform to facilitate crypto asset trading for individual or professional investors, seeking to hedge against the risk of volatility on these markets. Once this step is completed, the Lugh Company aims to develop new financial services based on blockchain technology.

In order to guarantee the stability of the Lugh (EUR-L), for each digital asset issued, one euro will be held in a dedicated bank account. The Lugh Company has thus developed an environment of trust around its digital asset: the project is supported by experts in their field, such as Societe Generale, the account holder of the issuing company, and PwC France and Maghreb which has been called on to issue a report each month on the number of Lugh (EUR-L) tokens issued and the balance of the associated bank account held with Societe Generale.

In addition, this digital asset has been presented to the French regulatory authorities and is willing to comply with the current regulatory framework. Technologically, the Lugh Company will benefit from the expertise of SCEME, developer of the emission and management platform of Lugh, Nomadic Labs, a French specialist of the Tezos blockchain technology on which will the Lugh (EUR-L) will be issued, and Casino Group, which considers this project an opportunity to develop new and innovative means of payment and loyalty programs in the future.

About Lugh

Lugh is positioned as the first player to issue stable digital assets pegged to the euro in a trustworthy environment. These digital assets will be made available to players in the financial and commercial sectors to enable them to create new and innovative use cases for their customers.

About Coinhouse

Coinhouse is a Digital Asset Service Provider (PSAN), a leading player in France for crypto-currency investment for individuals and professionals. It is a French company offering crypto asset management and transaction services since 2015 and the first company to have obtained mandatory registration of its activities within the Autorite des Marches Financiers (numero d'enregistrement AMF: E2020 – 001).

About PwC France and Maghreb

PwC in France and Maghreb provides consulting, audit and legal services with the strategic ambition to help reconcile the needs of business, the economy and society. PwC entities in France and Maghreb bring together more than 6,000 people, who share their skills across an international network of over 284,000 professionals in 155 countries. Since 2017, PwC France and Maghreb has developed market leading expertise in blockchain and crypto assets thanks to its Blockchain Lab, which draws on a multidisciplinary team of 40 experts in France and over 200 more internationally.

These specialists work in fields as far ranging as strategy, cybersecurity, crypto asset audit, token compatibility, regulatory law, cyber law, crypto asset taxation, functional and technical architecture and smart contract review. Visit www.pwc.fr

About Sceme

Sceme is a key player for the issuance of digital assets, the management and monitoring infrastructures of new digital currencies. Created in 2020, the company was founded by specialists in blockchain and electronic payment environments. Sceme supports its customers from the specification and development phases of digital assets and their governance. It also provides their customers with a management platform integrating on-chain control and accounting tools.

About Tezos

Tezos is smart money, redefining what it means to hold and exchange value in a digitally connected world. A self-upgradable blockchain with a proven track record, Tezos seamlessly adopts tomorrow's innovations without network disruptions today. To learn more, visit Tezos.com

Press Contacts
Lugh Company: Olivier Ou Ramdane, presse@lugh.io
Coinhouse: Julien Moretto, julien.moretto@coinhouse.com

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SINGAPORE, Mar 16, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Moonstake announces today that it has signed an MOU with Orbs, a hybrid blockchain infrastructure with enterprise-grade scale, security, and support.

Through this collaboration, Moonstake will soon support the staking of ORBS, Orbs' official token, on Moonstake Wallet, as well as participate further in the Orbs blockchain ecosystem. The two parties will also host community building programs, research, training, events, and conferences with the goal to increase awareness and adoption of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology in the Banking and Finance Industry. Moonstake and Orbs will discuss further potential provision of consulting services to financial institutions in the regions of Southeast Asia and Middle East.

Moonstake started in the staking business last year with the aim to create the largest staking network in Asia. Since then, Moonstake has developed the most user-friendly wallets for both Web Wallet and Mobile Wallet (iOS/Android) that are compatible with over 2000 cryptocurrencies. After a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, Moonstake's total staking assets have grown rapidly to reach USD 800 Million in staked assets in 6 months. Within a year of its founding, Moonstake became ranked in the top 10 of the world's staking service providers and it continues to expand its business strongly.

Meanwhile, Orbs is a prominent hybrid network with a focus on converting businesses to blockchain. The company has partnered with industry leaders from both traditional and decentralized technology sectors, such as IBM and Consensys respectively, to bring blockchain to the field of telecommunications. ORBS, the native token that fuels all activities on the Orbs blockchain including smart contracts, transaction fees, and consensus-based storage is currently ranked #5 in the Top 10 trending crypto coins by CryptoCrunchApp.

Orbs' vision is to build digital trust at scale by turning the trust-enabling technology of blockchain into a viable competitive strategy for businesses worldwide. By entering into a strategic partnership with Moonstake, the two companies can collaborate to accelerate global awareness and adoption of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in the field of finance together.

Mitsuru Tezuka, Founder at Moonstake says: "We are very pleased to be a partner with Orbs, the biggest blockchain company in Israel. Moonstake provides easy access for staking globally. Together, we can accelerate global awareness and adoption of blockchain technology for both users and businesses."

Daniel Peled, Co-founder and CEO at Orbs says: "Orbs is thrilled to be partnered with Moonstake, one of the top 10 staking providers in the world. Through this partnership, we will accelerate the adoption of decentralized technologies and services in the field of finance for the Southeast Asia and the Middle Eastern market."

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/

About Orbs

Orbs is a free, open-source, public blockchain infrastructure designed for mass usage applications, providing enterprise-grade scale, security and support. Orbs blockchain network expands the offerings of public blockchains by supporting permissioned applications developed by existing for-profit businesses, while also supporting purely decentralized apps and being a prime platform for launching decentralized finance applications. Founded in 2017, Orbs is being developed by a dedicated team of more than 30 people out of its offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, London, UK, Singapore, and Seoul, South Korea. Orbs was named Gartner's "Cool Vendor in Blockchain Technology" for 2018. https://www.orbs.com/

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HONG KONG, Mar 12, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Blockpass is excited to reveal it will be working with a number of new solutions and companies as it provides compliance options to Initial DEX Offerings (IDOs) on the DuckStarter platform. As DuckDAO's token sale launchpad, the DuckStarter platform is involved with a large variety of IDOs. With Blockpass and DuckDao working together, KYC and AML provision will be quickly and easily accessible to all participants, ensuring security and regulatory compliance in the space.

DuckDAO is a community-backed incubator powered by an expansive network of investors in the digital asset ecosystem. DuckStarter is a token sale launchpad where users can access both public and special rounds for high-quality crypto projects. DuckStarter will act as the final bridge between early-stage projects and the community before the project goes fully public. DuckStarter has a unique level system which requires users to lock-in a certain amount of DUCK tokens to participate in the launch platform. DuckStarter has already helped launch a number of projects and has many more lined up, including PolkaFoundry, keyTango, Lepricon, and Cash Tech.

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 DuckDAO and the DuckStarter platform 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 DuckDAO's DuckStarter platform we have the privilege to bring our revolutionary and efficient solution to a new and expanding audience."

"As one of the premiere KYC solutions providers in the crypto space, Blockpass has helped to smooth access to the burgeoning, but sometimes inaccessible crypto industry," said DuckDAO Co-founder Ken. "Blockpass has done an incredible job at ensuring our IDOs are secured by a real, quality user base."

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.

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 DuckDao

DuckDAO is a community-backed digital asset incubator that provides promising early-stage crypto startups with the expertise, financial resources, and marketing power needed to fast track their progress on the path to success. DuckDAO looks to break the cycle of early-stage investments in high-potential cryptocurrency projects, which typically see large traditional VCs buy out stacks of tokens in strategic, seed, and private sale investment rounds at far lower prices than retail investors got during the public sale. DuckDAO performs extensive due diligence checks on potential projects to ensure they meet rigorous standards of safety and stand an excellent chance of achieving great success with the help of their community. DuckDAO has an incredible track record and has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry in recent months, including Geeq, Shadows Network, Linear Finance, Base Protocol, and Bondly.

Learn more about DuckDAO:
Website: https://duckdao.io/
IDO Platform: https://duckstarter.io/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dao_duck/

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Kitchener, ON, Mar 3, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – When it comes to musical artists, Bryce Soderberg is a veteran. Not only is he a member of Lifehouse, a band that had a Billboard Hot 100 #1 Hit of the Year, but he has also had massive success as a multi-platinum producer and songwriter in his own right. Now he is choosing UREEQA to protect his body of work.

The relationship between technology and musicians has been tumultuous over the course of recent history. Advancements in technology have allowed musicians to experiment with different sounds, create new instruments and even genres. Without technology, musicians would not be able to capture their original sound and compositions to be cemented in history. Evolving from records and eight-tracks to compact discs and now digital files.

For as much as technology has supported and advanced the careers and capabilities of musicians, the music industry is one which has suffered greatly under the reign of technological advancements. The very nature of how sound is recorded and shared leaves it vulnerable to be stolen and infringed upon. Ever since the personal computer became a household item and the internet has been able to connect people, these tools have been harnessed as a means of stealing music.

Not only does this interrupt the deserved revenue stream of these artists, but it also gives them less creative control. In this way, music can be used without the artist's permission in other forms of media. For an artist's work to be used without permission can be an extremely violating experience. Creators deserve not only to be compensated for the use of their work, but to hold a certain amount of control over when, who and how their work is used.

The UREEQA platform will help to repair the relationship between music and technology. We are excited that UREEQA's value is being seen amongst musical artists already.

Bryce Soderberg, an acclaimed multi-platinum producer, songwriter, and longtime member of the band Lifehouse. Yes, that Lifehouse, that had a Billboard Hot 100 #1 Hit of the Year says he is most excited about having "the ability to buy and sell rights to creative work" that have been validated.

Bryce went on to say that UREEQA provides "a more reliable and transparent platform for collecting payments on the Creator's terms". The simplicity of the UREEQA platform empowers Creators by giving them more control over their work, their rights and their revenue.

The UREEQA platform will also provide a space for artists to organize and store creative work. Almost like a digital gallery, for Creators of all different mediums. Bryce is also excited to have "the ability to have an online environment to organize [his] work as [it is created]". The platform is quick and simple to use. UREEQA will be a one stop shop. Artists can store, organize, validate and sell their work – all in one convenient place.

Alhtough we are built on the Ethereum blockchain, we want to make sure that UREEQA is a platform accessible to everyone. UREEQA is also for those outside of the crypto space, and can be used by anyone from a variety of creative backgrounds, all over the world. Part of the issue that UREEQA will solve are the barriers faced by those in developing countries to protect their work. UREEQA will be simple, fast and cost-effective.

We are currently on-boarding Creators and Validators in a variety of backgrounds, and many Creators have already pledged assets to be Validated on the platform. We look forward to being the go-to place for Creators to protect their work. With accomplished and talented artists such as Bryce Soderberg, we're in good company on the platform already. Stay tuned to find out who else will be joining Bryce.

About Bryce Soderberg
Bryce Soderberg is a Canadian songwriter/producer and the long-time bassist for multi-platinum recording artists, Lifehouse.
Bryce's Twitter, https://twitter.com/BryceSoderberg
Bryce's Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/brycesoderberg/

About UREEQA
The UREEQA platform harnesses the power of blockchain technology and the blockchain community to empower creators to protect, manage, and monetize their work. Established in Canada in 2020, UREEQA will attempt to modernize the inefficient and bureaucratic systems currently in place for intellectual property protection. UREEQA provides value and opportunities for its Creators, Validators and Tokenholders via URQA, the token at the heart of the UREEQA ecosystem.

For more information on UREEQA and upcoming announcements please visit our website UREEQA (https://www.ureeqa.com/), join our Telegram channel (https://t.me/UREEQA), and follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/UREEQA_Inc).

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NEW YORK, NY, Mar 2, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Pastel Network, the first truly decentralized and scalable blockchain project designed specifically for rare digital art, has officially announced its pending listing on Bitcoin.com, scheduled for March 5th, 2021.

Pastel Network is a blockchain for rare digital art (also known as "NFTs") that is built on the secure, battle-tested codebases of the Bitcoin, Dash, and ZCash cryptocurrency projects. Pastel introduces several important innovations to the world of blockchain art, such as the decentralized storage of art image files natively in the network, as well as a decentralized validation process for registering new artworks that prevents near-duplicate images from being added to the system. Pastel's novel near-duplicate detection algorithm is based on robust image fingerprints that are generated using state-of-the-art deep learning image models and introduces a new form of digital scarcity which makes pixel patterns themselves "rare".

Pastel takes a different technological approach than competing digital art blockchain projects, which are primarily built on top of the Ethereum platform. Because Pastel is an integrated platform specifically designed for the application of rare digital art, it has its own native Bitcoin-like currency (called the PSL coin). Having a native currency token makes the Pastel Network's fees for registering, storing, and trading rare artwork very low, which makes it affordable to artists and collectors all over the world. Furthermore, the system includes a native mechanism based on changes in the mining difficulty of Pastel's proof-of-work algorithm for maintaining these fees at affordable levels long into the future – even if PSL appreciates significantly in value. This is in stark contrast to Ethereum-based art projects, where the cost to create new artworks is currently hundreds of dollars, creating unnecessary financial risks for artists and making these other platforms out of reach for all but the wealthiest artists and the most expensive digital artworks. Even if an artist can afford to pay these egregious fees, the cost of simply transferring the artworks to users is prohibitively high. Pastel offers digital artists a secure and robust environment for registering their rare digital artworks with very low transactional costs, making digital art accessible to artists from anywhere in the world, and allowing a different business model for artists where they can sell larger numbers of their limited edition digital art "prints" a price point of under $5, while still making a healthy profit margin.

At the same time, Pastel allows art collectors and fans to purchase rare digital artworks directly from their favorite artists – with most of the value going to the artist instead of being wasted on unproductive network fees and overhead. This allows fans to participate in the long-term success of their favorite artists, creating a reciprocal relationship that transforms an artist's fans into partners that have a financial stake in promoting the artist's work. Furthermore, buyers of rare artworks on Pastel are able to trade their owned artworks with other Pastel users in a decentralized exchange that is native to the platform, all while paying modest trading commissions and transaction fees that are closer to the ~2% charged by payment processors such as Paypal and Stripe than the 15% or more charged by art dealers and auction houses, and other NFT platforms. Pastel Network's low trading fees will lead to a much more dynamic and liquid marketplace for rare digital artwork that has the potential to radically transform the way art is created and collected. Best of all, the trading fees are sent by buyers and sellers to an unspendable PSL address, thus "burning" them and removing them permanently from circulation. Over time, this natural deflation will offset the new PSL created through the mining process, making PSL scarcer and more valuable.

As Pastel Network's founder Jeff Emanuel explains, "Today marks an exciting milestone for our project, which has been under continuous development since 2018 with the singular mission of serving the world's artistic community. We have created an open platform that frees artists from the restrictions of the traditional art market, with its outrageous commissions and dealer fees, as well as its elitist "gatekeeping" mentality that excludes the vast majority of talented artists around the world from earning a living as an artist. With the listing of Pastel on the Bitcoin.com exchange, as well as the public launch of our wallet software for artists and collectors in the next months, Pastel is now poised to disrupt the NFT space with a radically better network design that solves the high transactional fees and scalability issues that plague existing Ethereum-based NFT marketplaces and platforms."

Pastel Network originated as a fork of the Animecoin blockchain project originally introduced in 2014. Animecoin was based on a modified version of the Bitcoin code and was fairly distributed with zero "pre-mine" to thousands of users around the world. After the fork, Pastel team raised over $3mm from Innovating Capital and other blockchain investors to fund the development of the Pastel software and to further the goals of the project through community engagement and exchange listings, culminating in Pastel's pending listing on Bitcoin.com.

About Pastel Network

Pastel is an open-source, decentralized system allowing artists to register "provably rare" assets on a Bitcoin-like blockchain, while also allowing art collectors to purchase these artworks and "trustlessly" trade them among themselves without reliance on a central authority. The mission of the team is to develop the underlying infrastructure for a fully decentralized digital art platform, to better democratize the digital art world. The team behind Pastel Network is made up of an entrepreneurial team of developers, creators, marketers, and fund managers. With over two years of continuous, public development (which is fully documented on Pastel's public Github code repository), Pastel has built a secure system that solves the major problems of existing blockchain art projects: high fees, poor scalability, no internal native network file storage, and no means of preventing near-duplicate images from being registered on the network, which introduces a new standard of digital scarcity for NFTs.

Media Contact:
Anthony Georgiades
marketing@pastel.network

Website: https://www.pastel.network/
Wiki: https://www.pastel.wiki/
Telegram: https://t.me/PastelNetwork
Medium: https://medium.com/pastelnetwork


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