Surely you’ve heard or experienced the difficulties of moving funds and connecting with many ecosystems?

● Major platforms including Ethereum, Monero, EOS, Cardano, Terra, Cosmos, Avalanche, Algorand, Near, Celo, and Polkadot are now developing their ecosystems, and each one wants to “draw the blanket over itself.”

● In this equation, however, there are no winners. The user is inconvenienced and unsure which platform to utilize.

This is how it appears. However, we know that the ordinary user does not require this level of intricacy and instead just a single platform that can speak many languages at the same time.

The “Axelar Network” is a decentralized network composed of protocols, tools, and APIs that enable simple cross-chain communication and link all of the platforms, developers, and users mentioned above.

● For blockchain platform providers, connecting their blockchain to the ecosystem’s other blockchains is simple.

● For app makers, this ecosystem allows them to host their apps on any blockchain, transfer their assets, and communicate with other apps on any blockchain.

● For developers: Developers may offer various ideas for future platform development and enhancements, and users can vote on whether they accept or not (which is almost non-existent in our social networks and apps).

● Users: You do not need to have many accounts to connect with all of the applications and users on the platform (you may have only one wallet account).

In reality, crypto is difficult for a layperson to grasp; you may send money to the wrong address, and there are a plethora of wallets to choose from (you need to write down recovery keys everywhere). Many apps and websites are incompatible with one another. I am a big fan of projects that aim to make it easier for individuals to communicate in the crypto world.

Link to project sources:

axelar.network

twitter.com

t.me

Women trade crypto more often than traditional stocks. According to the survey of NORC at the University of Chicago over 41% of investors in crypto were women. But so far the crypto industry is male-dominated as female entrepreneurs present only 5% among all founders. However, a recent survey shows that 15% of women would like to develop their careers in crypto.

With crypto adoption, we expect the number of women entering the industry to increase, taking a significant share of C-suite positions.

At Finery Markets we strive to develop female leadership and reach diversity in our Product Team as we believe that diversity boosts innovations and improves internal communications.

Following global initiatives of international organizations including UNESCO before the celebration of International Women’s Day, Finery Markets would like to tell you about an outstanding woman in our team and the values that this female leader brings to the business.

Anastasia Karpinska joined Finery Markets in 2020 as a Team-Lead. She manages a Tech Team of developers implementing the best practices from her 13 years of experience in designing and building high-performance software solutions from ideation to market.

Ilia Drozdov, Chief Product Officer, Finery Markets

“Anastasia is a very strong tech developer, supervising a 100% male tech team is not an easy task however she achieves this. This enables Finery Markets to have a balanced and thorough approach to product development”.

The integration of female leaders brings huge value to a product. Lisa-Christina Winter Done works with crypto Product teams as a cognitive specialist. She founded Cryptopolitan, a Swiss Community that unites more than 700 women in the crypto industry.

Lisa-Christina Winter Done, Cryptopolitan:

“Having women in tech teams is absolutely necessary as the female point of view will reflect in the product. Today the percentage of women in crypto is disproportionately small and female needs should be taken into account as almost every woman has a bank account and uses internet banking. I expect the situation will change for crypto”.

Along with product value, having women in the team also improves internal communications making them open, diverse, and transparent.

Denise Nickerson, Co-Founder, Salt Consulting & Communications Ltd:

“Tech teams need to communicate outside themselves with a variety of stakeholders. Diversity increases a whole team’s ability to gather information, serve others, and improve internal communications. Making the implicit explicit helps people to get curious and ask questions, find clarity, challenge the status quo, and simplify processes too. Creating psychological safety for women and other minorities in any profession benefits the whole team too”.

Happy International Women Day to all outstanding women in #cryptoworld!

Last week, the cREAL or ‘Celo Brazilian Real’ joined the Celo stablecoin family. The value of this decentralized stablecoin is pegged to the Brazilian Real. This means that Brazilians can now transact globally in their local currency, removing the risk of foreign exchange volatility. This is a big step forward for local adoption. Payment for groceries, micro-work, remittances and much more are now possible using the digital cREAL.

At GoodGhosting, we aim to make DeFi accessible to all. Hence, we are excited to announce a very festive Brazilian cREAL savings pool!

Ready to find the savings rhythm that speaks to your heart? We will be offering TWO savings pool in honor of the upcoming Brazilian Carnival. This is allows players to choose the stable coin of their preference. In this Samba, you will have two different beats to choose from!

1. The cREAL Samba Pool. You will need to save in $cREAL in order to complete this pool. This is a pool for explorers! We recently made a short video guide on how to get $cREAL, found here.

2. The cUSD Samba Pool. Want to stick to the well-known cUSD? No problem. This pool is for flexible comfort!

Starting from Feb 8, you can find both pools here!

Each pool will have spots for 2000 savers. The pools conclude right on time for the big Carnival Parade.

Thanks fren! You really do love us! That means you won’t want to miss our upcoming community call set for February 8th at 6 pm MST (9 am HKT).

Мы присоединились к дорожной карте Test Net launch и Big Bounty Program с целью привлечь максимум внимания со стороны крипто сообществ и обеспечить прозрачность нашего входа на рынок. После успешного аудита от компании Bit of Trails — исходный код будет опубликован в открытом виде и мы ворвемся в Big Bounty Program!

Совсем недавно, PeckShield завершил аудит репозитория V1, который отвечает за:

◦ Управление ◦ Страховой фонд ◦ Вестинг страховых смарт контрактов ◦ Модуль регулирования блокировки токенов на нужный временной период

Было выявлено:

0 критических проблем0 проблем высокой степени0 проблем средней степени3 проблемы низкой степени и 1 проблема сохранности информации

Из трех проблем — 2 были полностью решены, а одна изучена и находится в процессе решения.

Данная проблема связана с стоимостью исполнения предложения. На данный момент нет возможности воспроизводить данный параметр в наших смарт контрактах. Маловероятен сценарий, в котором модуль Управления подтвердит внедрение функцию исполнения предложения без изменения блока Governance::execute() Подробности об этой проблеме вы можете увидеть в нашем полном отчете.

Halborn, элитная компания по кибербезопасности для организаций, основанных на блокчейне — закончила тест на уязвимость нашей сети. Аудит затронул такие модули, как Страховой фонд и модуль Управления. Было выявлено:0 критических проблем0 проблем высокой степени3 проблемы средней степени3 небольшие проблемы и 3 проблемы касательно сохранности информации

В процессе «Белого теста» — Firefly отдала коды смарт контрактов и всю документацию. Все проблемы, найденные в процессе аудита — были полностью решены. Подробности вы сможете найти в полной версии отчета. В текущий момент Halborn проводит «Черный тест» нашей платформы, т. е. другой пентестер проводит аудит всех систем с уже решенными проблемами по итогам «Белого теста». Результаты будут доступны в Августе 2021 года. В ходе вышеназванного аудита — будет задействован специалист, который еще не видел коды нашей платформы. Он попробует атаковать нашу систему безопасности с помощью заранее заготовленного вирусного софта. Таким образом будут выявлены дополнительные уязвимости сети.

В дополнение к вышеназванным этапам создания и «полировки» нашего проекта — мы сделали наши смарт контракты обновляемыми и создали контракты управления для нашего сообщества людей, чтобы они могли голосовать за те или иные обновления и применять их у себя, при необходимости. Мы надеемся, что Web3 протоколы скоро станут доступны для всех, и мы сможем внедрить их в нашу систему.

Нашей целью является создание экосистемы, построенной на доверии. Поэтому нам очень важно развивать здоровое сообщество как со стороны пользователей, так и внутри организации. Мы очень надеемся увидеть каждого из вас в качестве участников Баунти программы и Test Net лаунча. Мы уверены, что наши усилия не прошли даром и вместе мы сможем построить надежную, защищенную и прозрачную экосистему для каждого участника.

Если вы заинтересованы в инвестировании, дополнительных функциях и детальном изучении нашей платформы — подключайтесь к нашему сообществу в Discord, подписывайтесь на канал в Telegram, и подписывайтесь на обновления: https://firefly.exchange (https://firefly.exchange/)

Дисклеймер: продукты от компании Firefly недоступны для резидентов Соединенных Штатов Америки, а также граждан любых стран, которые попадают под санкции США.

-Firefly

Our team is excited to announce LunarDEX, an automated market-making (AMM) decentalized exchange (DEX) for the MoonBeam Chain.

We are aiming to be a trader-focused dex. Our goal is to add all trader focused features such as leverage trading, limit orders, and more.

Total raising amount: $400k in GLMR

Vesting: 30% on TGE, then linear release during 12 weeks

Pre-Sale page: https://lunardex.space/

Token: Lunar (LUNAR)

Chain: MoonBeam

Emission rate:

Reward per block — 0.5 LUNAR per Block

Daily emission (Based on 6600 blocks per day) — 3300 LUNAR per day

Distribution:

The LunarDEX team has been KYCed to the PAPR Ecosystem and is now operating under their supervision.

You can check it very easily, just ask in PAPR Ecosystem socials.

Let’s rock!

Website — Telegram — Twitter

Changer is a decentralized forex protocol developed by Chain Partners. It will be released in two versions, CeFi and DeFi, which will be closely linked to each other.

Until now, the majority of digital asset markets was USD-based stablecoin. However, the current share of USD in the FX market is only 44% (based on BIS statistics). The remaining 56% includes EUR, JPY, CNY, KRW and many more, but the crypto market seems to have eyes for USD only.

Changer is a decentralized forex protocol that enables the issuance and trade of non-USD stablecoin that index more than twenty FX prices. Corporate users that require fast transaction speed and lower transaction fee can use the Changer CeFi version. On the other hand, people who are more familiar with DeFi can use the Changer DeFi version.

Changer offers both versions so that users can get the benefit of CeFi, meaning that it guarantees a high transaction speed and no transaction fee, as well as the benefit of DeFi, which enables access to our service without a complicated sign-up process. The CeFi version beta service has been ongoing since March 24th and the DeFi version will be released for the first time this fall.

Within Changer, in both the CeFi and DeFi version, there are no real FX transactions taking place. Instead, stablecoin transactions that index FX prices are made. Therefore, we are currently relatively free from existing FX government regulations, but we will actively comply with any changes to regulations on stablecoin transactions.

Changer receives price information from the crypto market and the FX market and creates real time exchange rates between various digital assets. The crypto prices are linked to major exchanges and OTCs. As for the FX process, it is either directly or indirectly connected to major banks and financial institutions.

When a user trades stablecoin on Changer CeFi version, Changer holds real foreign currency assets just like a hedge trade in the actual FX market. Just as USDT or USDC have real USD in the bank, when a user purchases eEUR from Changer, Changer CeFi buys and holds the same amount of EUR from the actual FX market. Therefore the Changer CeFi version functions in a way that’s similar to USDT or USDC.

On the other hand, the Changer DeFi functions like Maker. When the user issues eEUR in exchange for wBTC or ETH, they become the underlying assets. (the real time price feed for wBTC/eEUR or ETH/eEUR is provided by Changer CeFi version, which is already connected to the crypto and FX market therefore becoming an Oracle source to convey price feed to contracts)

If the collateral value drops, Changer immediately converts the collateral to real EUR (or takes the EUR Long position) to ensure that it reaches 1:1 ratio with the eEUR issued by Changer DeFi. Under such situations, Changer DeFi version can choose to use the CeFi version instead for securing the underlying assets and the liquidation of the collateral.

Changer’s ultimate goal is to become a currency exchange protocol that enables users to exchange ‘Anything to Anything”at the best exchange rate. That is why our brand is called the “Changer”.

Exchangeable items will include digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, various foreign currency price indexed stablecoins issued by Changer as well as various asset groups such as gift cards and companies’ mileage, loyalty points, CBDC, tokenized stocks, tokenized art/real estate, and synthetic assets in the future.

Institutions can have access to all of these digital assets at the best exchange rates and will also be able to easily convert one to another with a single API integration. Retail users will also be able to exchange any digital asset for another at the world’s most competitive price, including the previously inaccessible crypto OTC market price, regardless of the size of the transaction.

Chain Partners is one of the most well known blockchain companies in Korea. Led by CEO Charles Pyo, who was an advisor on blockchain and digital currency national strategies at the Presidential Committee on the 4th Industrial Revolution and the National Assembly’s 4th Industrial Revolution Special Committee, it has been leading more than 15 new blockchain related businesses in Korea since its establishment and 13 million dollars worth of VC investment in 2017.

CEO Charles Pyo was a Korean advisor to ETHLend, the predecessor of Aave and currently the world’s top company in the DeFi service area, in 2017, when only a few people in Korea knew about DeFi. Based on its expertise on DeFi, Chain Partners was also the author of the 245-page DeFi report published by the Korean government (Ministry of Science and ICT) in January 2021, the first government in the world to publish such a report.

Chain Partners has been working on Changer since 2019 based on four years of experience and knowledge in the blockchain field. Thanks to Chain Partners OTC, Korea’s first over-the-counter digital asset trading desk, released in January 2019, Chain Partners was able to have extensive business relationships and credit lines with global digital asset OTC companies, which is serving as a strong foundation for the Changer.

Changer is fundamentally different from other rushed blockchain projects. From Daybit(Retail Exchange) to CPDA(Institutional OTC trading desk), Coincare(Phone-based trading for HNWIs) , Behind(Non-listed crypto P2P trading platform) and Coinduck(Crypto payment service integrated with the Samsung Blockchain Wallet), Chain Partners has experience in every part of digital asset trading, with Changer being the cherry on top to showcase our knowledge on digital asset market’s fundamental problem and solution.

CFX token, the first digital asset issued by Chain Partners in four years, will be used as the governance token in Changer DeFi version, while in the CeFi version, it will be used as coupons for discounts on transaction fees like BNB in Binance.com.

A strategic round worth $1m held in March 2021 was sold out early, and now, a public pre-sale worth $8m will take place from May 10th 2021 to May 30th. Starting with Batch 1, which will take place from May 10th to 12th, for every 48 hours, a new Batch will open until Batch 10 ends the pre-sale, which is planned to end on the 30th. If there is any token left from any batch, all will undergo a token burn.

As for the Changer project’s detailed research background, future vision and what we are currently working on, please check the white paper that was pre-released on last November.

Regarding the function of the token, the details for the token sale, and instructions on how to participate in the sale, please check the CFX Token website.

The beta version of Changer CeFi, which was launched in March, is available on https://changer.io. (At the moment, only a limited number of tokens and trading pairs are possible, but more will be added soon.)

Please show a lot of interest and support for the Changer project. There might be new obstacles in the process of making CeFi and DeFi products, leading us to make certain unavoidable changes, or the released product might not be perfect in the beginning.

However, since we have already been doing business in this field for four years, we believe that as long as we are consistent, we can improve our products. Changer is not a hastily planned project that we came up with just because we wanted to issue a new token or because DeFi is popular these days. It is a carefully crafted project that we have been working on for two years.

Changer team will show our best efforts as we always have to realize Changer’s dream, which is to collect globally fragmented quotes on all kinds of digital assets and foreign currency, then processing and providing the information to our users and passing it on so that it can be utilized in both CeFi and DeFi.

Please continue to show us support and interest in our project. For those of you who would like to become a part of our community, please join our official Telegram channel!

Thank you,

From the Changer team

[Disclaimer] CFX Token is a digital asset and not a security, meaning that it does not give users any right over the Changer service, Chain Partners and its related businesses, bonds, and any other. Please be aware of the risks of investing in digital assets. All data on this document, Changer website and CFX website might differ depending on when and how it was collected, and it was not verified by a third party. All published business plans regarding Changer and CFX Token might be altered depending on various situations.

Today we’re really glad to be joined by @Valentino_0 Valentino Cremona, Founder of FNDZ to share a ton of insights about the project! Everyone please welcome!

Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

Hi Valentino. As usual, we will start things out with some basic questions to you from my end, and then hand them over to the community for a Q&A session.

Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

For those who are not familiar, could you briefly describe FNDZ and what problems you are aiming to solve?

Valentino

Of course.

Valentino

FNDZ consists of an ecosystem of vault owners interacting via the FNDZ Platform and the FNDZ Token as a medium of exchange. Its goal is to create a transparent and decentralized environment for successful vault owners as well as their personal networks, followers, and supporters. It’s the place you go to get started with crypto!

Valentino

The FNDZ Platform features profiles of individual traders and their strategies. The profile contains basic information on the individual trader, their trading philosophy, and their past performance. Traders have the opportunity to distinguish themselves and their strategies according to parameters such as risk, returns, values, degree of active management, and social or cultural factors. Trader profiles are individually listed.

Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

Let us transition towards the native token — FNDZ. How does the FNDZ token function within the platform and why is it needed?

Valentino

To start out with FNDZ is a utility token which will be used as the medium of exchange between participants on the FNDZ Platform in a decentralised manner. The goal of introducing the FNDZ token is to provide a convenient and secure mode of payment and settlement between participants who interact within the ecosystem on the FNDZ Platform.

Valentino

In the near future, we will be expanding the utility of the FNDZ token to include the following:

• Reduced fees

• Higher Yield on vaults

• Vote on governance and future asset listings on the platform

• Vote on default vault parameters

• Pay for advertising vault spots

• Use FNDZ for tournaments

• Staking

• and many more mechanisms coming in the future.

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• Thank you for the clear explanation. Look forward to those new features coming in the future!

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• Could you share the development status and progress of the project thus far? Including the major partners and perhaps some operational data.

• Valentino

• We are in the process of submitting final contracts for audit

• Private beta testing is underway

• Public beta testing will be opening in the coming weeks

• We have partnered with Banxa & Coinpayments for fiat on/off ramp

• Completed integration with paraswap

• Selection of assets and curation process

• Automatic rebalanced indexes

• Liquidity expansion

• Staking program going live

• Public MVP launching soon

• Conditional order types

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• Very awesome!

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• Who will the users/clients be on your projects and what are some examples of use cases for them?

• Valentino

• Users will be the vault operators (traders, communities and DAO’s, etc)

• Clients will be the copy traders (retailers)

• Valentino

• Some of the use cases could be a signal provider that wants to automate their group, so instead of just following signals you can deposit into a vault and follow them automatically.

• Traders with a community could also create their own vault and let all their followers directly deposit into it.

• Valentino

• FA groups can make FA indexes that their groups use to spot good fundamental projects they believe in.

• Friends and family now can make private vaults just for their close peers to follow them.

• Valentino

• That’s just a handful of examples, DAOs could create their own vault as well where they can manage it collectively with delegated managers.

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• Great. May I ask what your strategy is regarding attracting more users to your protocol?

• Valentino

• Yes for sure. We are closing some big vault operator deals at the moment in the background. We will communicate which ones closer to the launch of the platform. These initial vault operators (10–15 ) which will be prominently featured, have to meet certain requirements. They have to be known, and have an established community of at least 50k followers, etc.

• Valentino

• This is how we will bootstrap our initial user base, we believe the vault operators should keep managing their communities and giving them the best possible service. We, on the other hand, will focus on a select few vault operators.

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• Great strategy! Community is always the key.

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• Let’s talk about the current landscape of other projects doing something similar. What separates you from some of the competitors?

• Valentino

• There are other copy trade platforms out there but we offer an easy to use interface with full control over your funds.

• We are one of the first to offer copy trading in a purely defi way without any CEX link.

• The messaging is crucial — how do you speak and communicate to retail.

• We are one of the only ones focusing on BSC.

• We also focus on various use cases for vault operators and help the big ones get started.

• We curate the asset list for all users.

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• Cool. What unique experience does your team bring that puts FNDZ in a position to be successful?

• Valentino

• Valentino — I set up AMDAX, the first regulated crypto exchange and custodian in the Netherlands.

• Teuta — Prior to joining FNDZ, Teuta was Chief Financial Officer at WorldPay, eCommerce, and Pepper Europe. She was also the Chief Financial Officer of Vanguard Europe.

• Hans — Is a crypto maximalist with years of experience in the crypto market as a key investor, CEO, consultant, marketeer and expert in investments and crypto business development. His main expertise is marketing strategies, tokenomics and business development.

• Matthew — Is responsible for the product of FNDZ. Having worked closely with venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, banks and crypto exchanges, he brings diverse experience across a broad range of asset classes to the FNDZ project.

• We have a very experienced team from all areas of business and crypto. You can find out more here: https://fndz.io/team

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• That is awesome!

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• What are the biggest risks and challenges FNDZ will need to overcome to consider the project successful?

• Valentino — FNDZ

• Success would be that the biggest community owners use FNDZ to manage their communities, and give them better access to get into the world of crypto.

• We want to make sure we lock 1B TVL at least in the FNDZ platform over the coming months.

• Risks are usually always associated with regulations or smart contracts. If regulators decide to clamp down on defi and ban like crazy, it could introduce some challenges. On the smart contract side, we are auditing extensively and running all kinds of extensive tests to make sure we don’t have any of those unwanted issues.

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• Can you please elaborate on the goals you are aiming to achieve in 2022?

• Valentino

• Public beta launch

• Platform launch

• New website

• FNDZ staking

• More functionality such as limited orders, Polygon-BRIDGE functionality, community vaults,

• TP / SL orders

• Automatically rebalanced Index vaults

• And more which we will communicate at a later stage

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• Great! My last question is a non-project-related question — which sector of crypto markets excites you the most?

• Valentino

• I am bullish on anything that brings new users to crypto (dApps) as well as some infra projects like Pocket network!

• Mary Zheng | AscendEX — MKT

• Cool. I pretty much finished on my end, if you’re ready, we will unmute the chat and see if the community has any questions.

•