Synopsis 2021: The Global DeFi & Digital Economy Summit

MOSCOW, Feb 17, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Synopsis 2021: The Global DeFi & Digital Economy Summit will be held on February 20 and 21, with the support of the Commission on Blockchain Technologies and Digital Economy of the all-Russian public organization Investment Russia. Theta.tv, the popular next-generation blockchain streaming platform, will air the event.







Synopsis 2021 gathers over 50 speakers from around the world, prominent experts in the blockchain industry, regulations, and digital economy. These speakers will be responding to the issues live, helping to understand what the industry will face next, sharing achievements and focusing on new trends. Of special note, representatives from Xangle will share deep analyses from their recent research projects and will provide their professional support for the summit.

Summit speakers: Nikolay Gadzhiev of VEROS and WIDCI, Gleb Kostarev, Director for Binance Russia and CIS, Sergei Khitrov of Listing.help and Blockchain Life, Editor-in-Chief of RBC Crypto Nikolay Zagvozdkin, Felix Xu of ARPA and Bella Protocol, Wes Levitt of Theta Labs, Sami Tannir of Conflux Network, Jack Ge of CyberVein, Erez Ben-Kiki of 2key Network, Yemu Xu of ARPA and Bella Protocol, Reggie Jerath of Gather Network, Pranay Sanghavi of MahaDAO, Nik Anikin of Colibri Group, and Ksenia Oshurko of OKEx Russia.

Summit hosts: Maria Stankevich (EXMO), Marie Tatibouet (Gate.io), Yan Khavanskiy (Coindar, Colibri Group, Bingbon), Lihan Lee (Xangle), Maksim Sukhonosik (Xangle), and Alena Afanaseva (BeInCrypto).

The target audience of Synopsis 2021 is investors, traders, market analysts, economists, marketers, developers, representatives of regulatory authorities, cryptocurrency enthusiasts, college students, and all who are keen on the digital economy.

The Synopsis 2021 Interactive Zone encourages the participants to show their knowledge, compete in a variety of events, and win prizes from the outstanding blockchain projects.

The summit will end with an incredible musical performance by Karin Stone & Liron Amar, progressive and energetic DJs from Israel.

Organizers: Colibri Group, Coindar
Co-organizers: Investment Russia, Xangle
Special partner: THETA Labs
Know more at the summit website: https://synopsis2021.com/

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Contact Person: Daria Chernova
Email: info@coindar.org, info@colibri-group.org
Website: https://synopsis2021.com, https://coindar.org/

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QTUM and Blockpass Partnership Brings On-Chain KYC to Ecosystem

HONG KONG, Feb 16, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Blockpass, the pioneer of On-chain KYC(TM), is excited to announce the latest in a number of new partners for 2021: QTUM. Through this new partnership, QTUM and Blockpass will be working together to offer revolutionary On-chain KYC solutions to the QTUM ecosystem. In the spirit of blockchain technology, both Blockpass and QTUM will work in the most transparent way to support the space; this will include QTUM offering subsidies to specific members of the ecosystem looking to achieve regulatory compliance with On-chain KYC(TM) solutions.





Qtum is an open sourced, public blockchain platform, leveraging the security of unspent transaction outputs and combining that with EVM smart contracts. Qtum is secured by a Proof of Stake consensus algorithm and boasts a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP), allowing specific blockchain settings to be modified by making use of smart contracts, leading to potential options such as increasing the block size of Qtum without the need of a hard fork or innumerable other possibilities.

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've known and been fans of the QTUM team and network for a long time and it's great to have the opportunity to work closely with them." said Blockpass CEO Adam Vaziri. "The QTUM network is innovative and we're excited to be able to bring the benefits and possibilities of On-chain KYC to developers and users alike. Bringing fast, simple and efficient regulatory compliance to QTUM creates more opportunities for everyone and spreads the phenomenon of On-chain KYC to an even wider audience."

"On-chain KYC will become a critical component to numerous protocols on the decentralized web. Rather than hinder innovators who are seeking to stay compliant while enabling new technologies, the Qtum Foundation would like to support those builders by backing Blockpass' expansion to the Qtum blockchain. Blockpass' solution has exceeded our expectations when it came to cost, which is an order of magnitude cheaper than traditional services, and its ability to only allow non-sensitive pieces of information to touch the blockchain," said Jordan Earls, co-founder of Qtum.

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:
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Website: http://www.blockpass.org
Email: sales@blockpass.org

About QTUM

Qtum is an open-sourced public blockchain platform, leveraging the security of UTXO while enabling multiple virtual machines including EVM and soon, Neutron. Qtum is PoS based and boasts a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP) allowing specific blockchain settings to be modified by making use of smart contracts. For instance, the block size of Qtum can be increased without the need of a hard fork. For more information, please visit: www.qtum.org

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Moonstake Wallet To Start Staking Support as the World’s First Validator for Centrality

SINGAPORE, Feb 11, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – In anticipation of Centrality's staking support, Moonstake has successfully launched the world's first CENNZ validator. Moonstake will be the first wallet in the world to support CENNZ staking.





Moonstake successfully completed the API connection to CENNZnet and has been preparing for development for staking support. Moonstake's wallet supports holding, sending and receiving CENNZ, Centrality's native token and it will soon provide staking functions. Once staking support is available, Moonstake users will be able to stake through the Moonstake wallet and receive CPAY as staking rewards.

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 500 Million in staked assets in 6 months. So far, Moonstake has supported Cosmos, IRISnet, Ontology, Harmony, Tezos, Cardano, Qtum, Polkadot for staking and soon for Centrality.

Previously, Moonstake and Centrality entered into a strategic partnership in August last year. Aaron McDonald, CEO of Centrality has joined Moonstake as an advisor and both parties are actively developing for the implementation of CENNZ (Centrality's token) through Moonstake staking platform. Through a joint webinar last year both parties have shared actively about the progress of the partnership and product development including announcement of the launch of CENNZ staking on Moonstake and to provide updates. Based on joint marketing and technical collaboration, Moonstake Wallet achieved another milestone as a world's first wallet to support mainnets of CENNZ and CPAY and allow users with the ability to send, receive, and hold ERC-20 based CENNZ and CPAY tokens.

Centrality is the leading FinTech venture platform. It received a research grant from the New Zealand government and is working with the New Zealand government to build a decentralized system through the public-private integrated organization "Digital Identity NZ" together with NZ Tech and Singlesource. Centrality has partnered with world leading players such as Amazon (AWS), Microsoft Partner, McDonald's China, and it is expected that cooperation with these companies will trigger companies to adopt blockchain. In August of this year, Centrapay, a venture company from Centrality, announced the technology offering to purchase Coca-Cola products at BTC using Sylo's smart wallet.

The CENNZnet token swap was successfully closed at the end of October and over the 8 week swapping period more than 831 million $CENNZ were sent to the transition contract. Upon this swap, users are allowed to move the old Ethereum-based (ERC20) tokens onto the native CENNZnet and uniting CENNZ and CPAY token holders onto CENNZnet. Once the full amount of CENNZ has been converted, the new CENNZnet native tokens will be automatically returned to your CENNZnet wallet.

With ERC20 tokens, users will not be able to get rewards for staking on CENNZnet. With the completion of this swap, CENNZ is now being used as a more user-friendly ecosystem of DApps and allowing us to move on to a new stage of growth. The newly minted CENNZnet CENNZ token marks a new era for the platform and with 2021 being the year of venture growth and more DApps building in the Centrality ecosystem.

Moonstake is looking forward to supporting the CENNZ community by providing the best staking service and accelerating the staking ecosystem to further enhance the staking of CENNZ as a first validator in the world.

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 Catalist-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 500 Million. https://www.moonstake.io/

About Centrality

Centrality is the world's leading fintech venture platform based in New Zealand. They have received a research grant from the New Zealand government and are working with the New Zealand government to build a decentralized system through the public-private integrated organization "Digital Identity NZ" together with NZ Tech and Singlesource. https://centrality.ai/

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Alphabit deploys Stratis Investment and coverage

LONDON, Feb 5, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Blockchain as a Solution (BaaS) service provider Stratis makes decentralized adoption easier for any firm with its innovative products designed to fit seamlessly with legacy operations, by allowing companies access to the Stratis blockchain via the widely-used C# programming language. The platform allows seamless running of smart contracts, multiple sidechains, and houses a full-scale ICO platform.



Stratis’ innovative blockchain solutions have attracted the attention of digital asset investment fund Alphabit, who injected an initial investment while committing to a further 7 figure investment over 24 months for growth and development of the BaaS ecosystem.



Alphabit, a USD 1 billion AUM fund and one of the world's first regulated digital asset investment funds focused on delivering turn-key solutions and assisting projects with end-to-end partnerships, enters into this venture to rapidly scale Stratis' development and help deploy cutting edge products that allow mainstream organizations to use blockchain in their day to day operations. The significant commitment by Alphabit is a testament to the groundbreaking approach of Stratis' offerings.

CEO of Alphabit Liam Robertson commented on the partnership:

"Stratis Protocol, after analysis, fits neatly into our investment thesis and we believe the potential for growth for Stratis to be exponential. We are delighted to welcome Stratis into our portfolio and look forward to supporting them over the coming months and years."

Stratis CEO Chris Trew said the following:

"We are thrilled to partner with Alphabit, one of the world's first regulated digital asset investment funds. Alphabits initial injection, in conjunction with their further investment commitment, will unquestionably assist in accelerating the adoption of Stratis Technologies, while cementing Stratis as the go-to platform for Microsoft .NET Blockchain development."

With the expertise and backing of Alphabit, Stratis will be empowered to develop ever-better solutions for the b2b market. Coupled with their C# support, Stratis' solutions will increase the onboarding of blockchain solutions in the global market.

About Stratis

Stratis offers unprecedented levels of security, reliability and performance through leveraging blockchain. The first of its kind, the platform's native C# ecosystem enables firms all over the world use their existing IT infrastructure and tools to adopt the technology by providing access to the Stratis blockchain's features, in a language which is familiar to the everyday developer.

o Stratis Identity: A decentralized KYC and AML check to make it easier for businesses to verify client identities and comply with regulations.
o Supply Trust: A turnkey solution for supply chain management, providing full visibility in a trustless and decentralized environment.
o STO Platform: Regulation-compliant digital securities for businesses launching STO's
o Stratis Smart Contracts: Secure and auditable digital contracts that are developed in the industry-standard Microsoft C# language, fit for the DeFi age.

About Alphabit

Alphabit specializes in investments in blockchain and distributed ledger technology projects. They offer a wide range of advisory services and act as the Investment Advisor to the Alphabit Fund; one of the world's first regulated digital asset investment funds.

Their goal is to share their expertise with promising projects and advance the cryptocurrency movement as a whole, and to date, Alphabit has successfully brought to market projects like Metal Pay, The Sun Exchange, and Suterusu.

To find out more about how Stratis is bringing the next generation of blockchain to businesses, visit www.stratisplatform.com, or to see how Alphabit is empowering Blockchain businesses to reach new heights, visit www.alphabit.fund.

Follow Stratis on Twitter – https://twitter.com/stratisplatform
Join the Stratis Developer Academy – https://academy.stratisplatform.com/
Check out Stratis on GitHub – https://github.com/stratisproject
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Media contact:
Alphabit Digital Currency Fund
Shane Mcquillan, shane@alphabit.fund
Website: https://www.alphabit.fund

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BitDeer.com Rings In Year of the Bull Spring Festival Promotional Offers

SINGAPORE, Feb 2, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – BitDeer.com, the world's leading all-in-one mining service platform, is launching a series of promotional offers to ring in the celebration of the Year of the Bull for this year's Spring Festival. Limited stocks of mining plans for the highly-sought after S19 mining machines will be available, alongside the mining plans for S17 and T17 models. Other coupons and other prizes are also on offer during the event.





With the fast-approaching Spring Festival of 2021 around the corner, the world's leading all-in-one computing power service, BitDeer.com, is rolling out a promotional event to celebrate the festivities.

From February 3rd, 2021 to February 16th, 2021, there will be promotions and offers for the occasion. During the Spring Festival promotional period, BitDeer.com will offer short term mining plans with the duration of 90 days or 120 days for the Antminer S19, S17, and T17 series models. At present, the 90-day mining plan is the shortest mining period available on the platform. According to BitDeer.com, the shorter mining plan is suitable for those who prefer a higher degree of control. Since the short plan lapses before the start of the wet season, possible risks due to fluctuations are avoided. The S19 plans at BitDeer.com have always been a best-seller, with plans being frequently snapped up at a fast rate as soon as they are restocked. The platform has not only been able to secure supply of the in-demand S19 model, but also S17 and T17 series machines, giving its user base a variety of options.

Within the Spring Festival event, BitDeer.com users who log on into the web platform or their new mobile app version of their mining platform would have a chance to receive coupons, with the highest amount valued at $100. These freebies will only be available to customers who log in during the Spring Festival. Aside from this, purchasers of a certain amount in mining plans will receive complementary mining extension coupons which can cover mining days of up to 7 days, with hashrates free of charge. Mystery prizes are also up for grabs for users who greet BitDeer.com with Chinese New Year couplets. Newcomers to BitDeer.com will also be able to enjoy a special welcome package with coupons redeemable during the Spring Festival.

BitDeer.com regularly gives back to its community through promotional offers during special occasions, as well as keep up with the market conditions to provide sufficient supply of opportunities for potential gains. During the last 2 years since its debut, the all-in-one mining service platform has established itself as a reputable world leader in the industry for both individuals and institutions. BitDeer.com aims to continue providing services that are transparent, reliable, and adaptable to different needs and market conditions.

"BitDeer.com will be here to support our users throughout any climate", a representative said.

For more information on BitDeer.com and its services, please visit the official website. https://www.BitDeer.com

About BitDeer.com

BitDeer.com is the world's leading all-in-one mining service platform, enabling global users to mine cryptocurrencies in a transparent, reliable, and convenient way. It saves users from the complicated process of purchasing, installing, and hosting mining machines. Individual and institutional investors can enjoy the service with just one click.

For more information, please visit:
Website: https://www.BitDeer.com
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Moonstake Enters a Strategic Partnership with Cocoricos, A Provider of a DeFi Platform to Enhance Convenience for Staking Users

SINGAPORE, Feb 2, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Moonstake has entered into a partnership with Cocoricos, a provider of a DeFi platform that enables passive income through staking and liquidity mining.





Cocoricos is a DeFi platform that simplifies Token Explorers through liquidity pooling and staking. Through this partnership, Cocoricos' end users will have access to Moonstake's Cardano (ADA) and Tezos (XTZ) staking pools.

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 200 Million in staked assets in 6 months. Within a year of its founding, Moonstake was ranked in the top 20 of the world's 1,692 staking service providers and it continues to expand.

Moonstake has been actively promoting staking in the market through partnerships with public PoS blockchain projects. Until now, Moonstake has partnered with 11 blockchain projects such as Cardano's constituent organization Emurgo, Ontology and more.

Mitsuru Tezuka, Founder at Moonstake says: "Cocoricos has created an easy way for users to earn rewards through high level liquidity pools and staking. Our partnership integration can create synergies by jointly driving staking activity and we look forward to working together on a variety of areas including DeFi."

Mehdi Radi, CEO at Cocoricos says: "Cocoricos is proud of this key partnership with Moonstake. Users want to be able to easily stake their coins by using a proven staking infrastructure like Moonstake, and I think they can meet the expectations of Cocoricos users."

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 Catalist-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 210 Million. https://www.moonstake.io/

About Cocoricos

We at COCORICOS, are driven to challenge the status quo and create a new standard for generating passive income with digital assets. Our primary goal is to fix and improve crypto rewarding and earning with the vision to make the blockchain space a safer place accessible to all crypto holders. https://cocoricos.io/

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KPMG Nominates Virtual Exchange, HKVAX, as 2020 Fintech Leader

HONG KONG, Feb 1, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – HKVAX, an Asian startup focused on developing a compliant virtual asset exchange, has been nominated for KPMG's "2020 China Leading Fintech 50", alongside other notable fintech companies such as Futu, Ping An and CCB Fintech.

HKVAX is focused on developing a compliant trading environment for virtual assets and is expecting to be licensed in 2021 subject to regulatory approval. The approved licenses would allow HKVAX to legally operate a regulated virtual asset exchange and to deal in securities.

The platform will provide a curated venue for professionals and institutions to trade virtual assets and offer catered listing rules and guidance for virtual assets and security tokens. HKVAX also provides "24/7 Real-Time" transactions around the clock with market liquidity to allow trading operations to function efficiently and effectively.

HKVAX also has plans to launch their licensed institutional grade custodian solution in early Q2 of 2021. The TCSP license was received earlier in 2019 making HKVAX a fully licensed trust company and is compliant with the strictest AML, CTF, FATF and other global regulatory requirements. This allows HKVAX to provide the highest level of service and safeguard client assets in a fully regulated custodial environment.

For potential clients and parties interested in the technology powering HKVAX, the company has recently launched their testnet solution, "Sim-Trade HKVAX", during Q4 2020 and invite users to test the trading environment.

About HKVAX

HKVAX is a regulated virtual asset exchange in Hong Kong that is building a trusted and secured infrastructure layer for trading, where different parties can collaborate with each other, investors having exposure to the new digital asset class, and issuers can engage with a wide range of investors. Creating a safe, fair and bona fide environment for everyone. For more information on HKVAX and their initiatives, please visit the official website. https://www.hkvax.com

PR CONTACT (Matt): pr@hkvax.com

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Moonstake Enters a Strategic Partnership with Stake Technologies to Enhance the Polkadot Ecosystem and Scale the DeFi Projects

SINGAPORE, Feb 1, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Moonstake has entered into a strategic partnership with Stake Technologies, which develops the Plasma Network, the world's first successful connection to Polkadot's testnet parachain.





Through this partnership, Moonstake and Stake Technologies will work together to expand the Polkadot ecosystem. Also, both pirates will proactively discuss potential implementation of the staking of Plasm Network Token, PLM, onto Moonstake's staking platform and possibility of collaboration in the DeFi space.

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 200 Million in staked assets in 6 months. Within a year of its founding, Moonstake was ranked in the top 20 of the world's 1,692 staking service providers and it continues to expand.

In January 2021, Moonstake added Polkadot's staking service to further enhance the staking of one of the top 5 cryptocurrencies in market capitalisation after 8 other coins. Since Moonstake launched its support of staking Polkadot's cryptocurrency (DOT), it successfully achieved a staking volume of 15,000 DOT during its test launch period. At the same time, to accelerate the spread of Polkadot in the blockchain industry through staking, Moonstake has also entered into a strategic partnership with RockX, one of Polkadot's world's leading node operators to support the ever-growing Polkadot ecosystem together.

Plasm Network is a public blockchain that can implement a Layer2 scalability solution that is scheduled to be connected to Polkadot, a blockchain that connects other blockchains. And it realizes "high speed processing of transactions" that could not be possible until now. There are growing expectations for the use of technologies in payment, IoT and games. In addition, since Polkadot (Relaychain) itself does not support smart contracts, Plasm Network, an Ethereum-compatible application platform with high processing performance will play an important role in the Polkadot ecosystem.

After the launch of Polkadot's mainnet, Plasm Network has become the world's first successful connection to Rococo V1, Polkadot testet on 13 Jan 2021. They have received grants 6 times from the Web3 Foundation (a global blockchain foundation founded by Dr. Gavin Wood, and flagship project of Polkadot).

Plasm Network has been selected by Parity Technologies, one of the world's most prominent blockchain developers and a member of the initial Substrate Builders Program. It has collaborated with major leading players in the market such as Chainlink, a decentralized provider of Oracle and Zenlink, a cross-chain DEX protocol as well as academic institutions such as world famous UC Berkeley. This project has become one of the most high-profile in the blockchain industry.

Mitsuru Tezuka, Founder at Moonstake says: "We are very pleased to partner with Stake Technologies and the Plasm Network and its development. The company's development progress and industry presence over the past two years including the world's first connection to Polkadot's testnet is remarkable. We look forward to working with them on a product that will be used by users around the world in a variety of areas including DeFi as well as being highly compatible with Moonstake's business with Polkadot."

Sota Watanabe, Founder at Stake Technologies says: "Since our company was established, we have been involved in the open source development of Polkadot that we believe will be the foundation for the next generation Web 3.0. We also recognize that there are high expectations from the world for the Plasm Network since it was launched in mid-2020. The network has been getting attention from around the world and establishing a presence in the ecosystem.

Staking is obviously the core function of PoS public blockchain like Polkadot and Plasm Network. We hope that our users use Moonstake to stake PLM tokens and we will do our best to provide them with our best services."

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 Catalist-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 210 Million. https://www.moonstake.io/

About Stake Technologies

Stake Technologies is a company that makes core decentralized protocols to make Web 3.0 happen. Stake Technologies builds applications using the Plasm Network, a public blockchain developed by the company. It develops blockchain for enterprises, and provides consulting services. Stake Technologies, the core development company behind Plasm Network, provides fast and comprehensive support to the selected companies for building enterprise-grade use cases on the top of Plasm Network. It also collaborates with Chainlink, a provider of distributed oracles for blockchain. https://stake.co.jp/service/

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Blockpass Provides Powerful On-chain KYC(TM) Utility for EasyFi DeFi Lending Platform

HONG KONG, Jan 28, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Blockpass, the pioneer of On-chain KYC(TM), is proud to announce a groundbreaking partnership with EasyFi Network – a scalable, open and inclusive Layer 2 DeFi lending protocol for digital assets, built on Matic Network. The partnership features a powerful use case for on-chain KYC data via a network consisting of Blockpass, Chainlink, Matic and EasyFi, enabling the realization of decentralized and compliant lending and borrowing of digital assets over public networks.





EasyFi is a protocol built to solve some of the inherent challenges faced by the first generation of DeFi solutions with respect to transaction speeds and costs which create a bottleneck when operating at scale. Its secure protocol aims to cover all manner of bases, including micro-lending, under-collateralized loans, credit delegation, credit default swaps and more. Enabling lower cost transactions, a deeper liquidity pool and real-world integrations, EasyFi hopes to be the catalyst for the mass adoption of DeFi.

Blockpass is a digital identity verification provider which offers 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.

"2021 has gotten off to a promising and rapid start with the revelation of on-chain KYC. We're incredibly excited to be seeing such amazing use cases for the technology before the end of the first month is even up," said Adam Vaziri, CEO of Blockpass. "We're really looking forward to working with the team at EasyFi, who are just as passionate about creating useful, simple and compliant solutions in this space; this is just the beginning of the on-chain KYC revolution!"

Ankitt Gaur, Founder & CEO, EasyFi Network, noted, "We are very excited to see the vision of "Identity Quad" coming to reality where Identity is managed by one participant (Blockpass), relayed by another (Chainlink), enabled by third pillar (Matic) and offered for consumption by (Easyfi) leading to adoption. In an attempt to achieve the above we are very happy to be partnering with Blockpass and looking forward to working with them to deliver seamless on-chain identity solutions to our layer 2 lending protocol. Our collaboration moves a needle toward under-collateralization and uncollateralized loans which are part of our endeavour to make DeFi users to do more with their Digital Assets thus fitting our #DoMoreWithDeFi vision perfectly."

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 with Chainlink and Matic have led to a surge in interest for Blockpass' On-chain KYC(TM) solution.

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.

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About EasyFI

EasyFi is a universal layer 2 lending protocol built for DeFi focused on scalability, composability, and adoption. It has been designed as an open and inclusive financial network infrastructure to run on public networks to facilitate an end to end lending & borrowing of digital assets and related financial products. EasyFi is being built upon the ethos of permissionless networks & automation of smart contracts.

– Website: https://easyfi.network/index.html
– Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/EasyfiNetwork
– Official Telegram: https://t.me/easyfiNetwork

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BTCST Welcomes Top Bitcoin Mining Partners including BTC.TOP and Genesis Mining

HONG KONG, Jan 25, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Standard Hashrate Group (SHG), the project team behind the Bitcoin Standard Hashrate Token (BTCST), today welcomed several world-class mining institutions as partners. Joining the SHG project as tokenization miners are Atlas Mining, BTC.TOP, Easy2Mine, Genesis Mining and Hengjia Group, each major stakeholders in the current mining industry.





Alex Zhao, CEO of SHG, said that the partners "share SHG's vision of bringing exchange-level liquidity to mining power and bridging real-world mining to the DeFi world. Their rich experience and collaborative approaches in industrial scale mining will be greatly complementary to SHG."

The partners will be working with SHG to tokenize a total of 25 PH/s of Bitcoin hashrate into their BTCST. The institutions will be pooling their expertise to provide assured continuity and the skills needed for BTCST. "As the operator of some of the largest hydropower cryptocurrency mining facilities, we applaud the innovation of the BTCST project," said Jiwei Zhu, Chairman of Hengjia Group.

With its successful debut on Binance Launchpool, BTCST has become the benchmark hashrate token with deep market liquidity and price premium. BTC.TOP CEO, Zhuoer Jiang, said that "mining is an asset intensive industry. BTCST has turned mining machines into high liquidity assets as Grayscale does to Bitcoin, injecting incremental value into the mining market."

The partners echoed the positive sentiment towards this new development in mining products.
"BTCST is really exciting," said Rene Hennen, COO of Genesis Mining, "It is one of the rare inventions which expands the Bitcoin ecosystem with the potential to add a lot of value." One facet of the BTCST that raises interest is the element of DeFi in mining, which has yet to be seen in bitcoin mining. "

We believe a project like BTCST should focus on decentralization of hashrate sourcing," said Cathy Yu, CMO of Easy2Mine. This point of view is shared by CEO of Atlas Mining, Tony Ma, who said that "BTCST has connected Bitcoin mining to the DeFi world," and that "with BTCST, we can earn real BTC via crypto-native staking."

According to the SHG whitepaper, the team aims to roll out BTCST token issuance in batches, as well as acquire and construct mining facilities within 2021.

For more information on BTCST and Standard Hashrate Group, please visit the official website.

About Standard Hashrate Group

The program team of Standard Hashrate Group consists of mining veterans who have accumulated years of experience constructing and managing mining sites in the greater China region, including some of the largest cloud mining providers in the world, as well as institutional miners. Standard Hashrate Group introduced the Bitcoin Standard Hashrate Token (BTCST) to bring exchange grade liquidity, and increase participation in Bitcoin mining. By collateralizing real Bitcoin mining power, Standard Hashrate Group paves a new path in mining Bitcoin the DeFi way. Official Website: https://www.1-b.tc

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