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United States, USA, 13th October, 2021,

The co-inventors of the early blockchain, Drs. Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta, are joining with a team of industry-leading partners to commemorate the birth of blockchain technology, its past, present, and future. It’s a tribute to the journey and the community.

Today’s announcement marks the 30th anniversary of the public appearance of what might be called the “genesis block” of what is in fact the world’s oldest continuously running primitive blockchain, as explained here.

The celebration will conclude on January 03, 2022, the 13th anniversary of the Bitcoin genesis block.  Bitcoin’s design, as described in Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, relies on Haber and Stornetta’s mechanism for ensuring the integrity of all of its transactions.  In fact, three of Satoshi’s eight footnotes reference their technical papers. 

The history of the blockchain will be celebrated with a collection of NFTs that both involve and honor the founders, innovators, and thought leaders of the blockchain community. The NFTs, demonstrating the range and diversity of the blockchain ecosystem, will be auctioned through a novel mechanism and will involve a number of innovative layer-1 blockchains and their communities.

Jason Bailey, global thought leader in NFTs and founder of Artnome.com and ClubNFT, said, “Without the work of Stuart Haber and Scott Stornetta there are no NFTs, no Bitcoin, and no blockchain. I’m thrilled that they are using this opportunity to create an NFT with the goal of unifying everyone within the blockchain ecosystem in a way that I believe only they can.”

“Kadena is thrilled and honored to participate in Immutable Record’s celebration of blockchain,” said Stuart Popejoy, the co-founder and CEO of the Kadena blockchain and smart contract platform. “Immutable Record’s NFT offering drives the space forward with a multi-protocol approach that also exploits many of Kadena’s unique advantages such as institutional-quality provenance, entirely on-chain minting, and custom marketplaces.” 

Haber and Stornetta concluded with “We are happy to join the celebration of the blockchain, and will be announcing the involvement of other leading layer-1 blockchains and thought leaders. Stay tuned. The best is yet to come.”

For media inquiries please contact media@immutablerecord.com.

For more information visit the website https://immutablerecord.com/.

About Kadena 

Kadena is the industry’s only scalable layer-1 Proof of Work (PoW) blockchain, featuring Pact, the safest and easiest-to-use smart contract technology. Kadena’s platform provides the world the tools and environment to turn ideas and ambitions into reality, from DeFi applications to NFT marketplaces. As the only blockchain that can scale both speed and storage limitlessly, decentralized services on the Kadena platform allows users and builders to exceed current limitations in blockchain such as high gas fees and storage constraints, and even “mint marketplaces” where exchange and trading of tokens and NFTs can be customized endlessly. Founded by Stuart Popejoy and William Martino who created JP Morgan’s first blockchain and led the SEC’s Crypto Committee, Kadena aims to allow for true blockchain mass adoption. Visit us at www.kadena.io and follow our twitter account at www.twitter.com/kadena_io to learn more.

Contacts

• Nir Geffen Shimoni
• nir@betteralternatives.io

San Francisco, California, 13th October, 2021,

San Francisco-based decentralized wireless network, Nodle grants Berty Foundation, a privacy communication protocol, $1 million in Nodle Cash in a bid to boost the development of its messaging Bluetooth peer-to-peer capabilities. The grant will be used in the development and advancement of Berty’s platform that enhances users’ privacy while chatting and sending messages across its network. 

Launched in 2018, Berty offers its users an alternative to instant messaging platforms, providing privacy-first solutions in the messaging world. According to its website, Berty provides users with a privacy-by-default platform ensuring that messages’ security and privacy remain paramount to all users. The platform is built by Berty Technologies “using the best encryption protocol available,” the website further states. 

Speaking on the grant, Micha Benoliel, CEO and Co-Founder of Nodle said, 

“We are thrilled to help and support the Berty Foundation to advance its privacy-first communication protocol. Privacy is at the heart of the Web 3.0 revolution and one of the core values of Nodle.”

The French startup does not store any of users’ data on a central server but rather on a decentralized platform despite data encryption. Additionally, on Berty only the needed metadata is actually collected, and they minimize collection to the greatest extent in the hope to create a messaging service that guarantees anonymity and confidentiality of all users. The platform targets privacy-focused groups, messaging apps, social network users, and general users looking to protect their data from third parties. 

With the latest grant, Berty Foundation aims to extend the development of its messages’ privacy and anonymity, a statement from the team reads:

“Thanks to Nodle for their trust, this donation represents a real breakthrough for Berty. It will allow us to move forward more quickly on our new decentralized secure messaging protocol and the ability to communicate even without an Internet connection. More importantly, it will help secure the future of our organization.” 

The grant from Nodle, the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) network connecting millions of Internet of Things (IoT), will accelerate the development of Berty’s privacy communication protocol. Nodle chose the platform as it is one of the most advanced endeavors in the field of decentralized communications and reinforces the privacy values that Nodle supports in security and privacy. The two firms are planning to leverage each other’s tech or ecosystem in the future, the statement further confirmed. 

Nodle is a citizen-powered decentralized wireless network that allows anyone with a smartphone to join the network and earn Nodle Cash crypto through its Nodle Cash app. Developers and publishers of mobile apps can also monetize their applications by installing the Nodle networking library. As the Nodle network leverages the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard, any existing BLE device or sensor can easily leverage the network.

With the latest grant, Berty Technologies aims to achieve its vision of creating secure communication tools and fighting censorship in order to create an opportunity to connect with people all over the free world.

About Nodle | The Citizen Network™: 

Nodle is building the largest decentralized wireless network on Earth to connect objects and sensors that could never be connected before in a secure, low-cost, and eco-friendly manner. The Nodle Network is powered by millions of Bluetooth-enabled smartphone users who earn Nodle Cash for providing connectivity to nearby Bluetooth-enabled IoT devices and sensors. App developers and publishers have the opportunity to monetize their applications via the Nodle networking library which enables them to generate Nodle Cash for helping the network grow. Nodle’s powerful privacy-first IoT stack allows for many use cases including connecting and securing physical assets, tracking lost or valuable items, capturing sensor data, security certificates, providing decision-making insights for consumer electronics manufacturers, enterprises, smart cities, and the finance industry, and much more. The Nodle Cash app is available for iOS or Android. 

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About Berty Technologies 

Berty Technologies is a French non-governmental and non-profit organization. Created in May 2018, Berty Technologies’ team is located in Paris (FR) and is now staffed by 12 people, half of whom are developers.

Berty Technologies’ vision is to create secure communication tools and to fight censorship in order to create an opportunity to connect with people all over the free world.

Contacts

Director of Communications

• Daren McKelvey
• Daren@nodle.co

Dubai, UAE, 13th October, 2021,

Morningstar Ventures, the dynamic accele rator of ambitious ideas in the blockchain space, has announced a $15 million USD investment fund aimed at projects building with Elrond blockchain technology, as well as a new strategic Elrond Incubator in Dubai.

Morningstar Ventures is a blockchain innovation firm that drives the proliferation of decentralized technologies through strategic placements in startups that it supports with funding, advisory and ecosystem building.

Elrond Network is the internet-scale blockchain that is currently capable of processing 15,000 transactions per second and can scale beyond 100,000 TPS, thanks to its groundbreaking Adaptive State Sharding technology that enables it to scale with demand by adding new shards as needed.

The smart contracts execution platform is carbon-negative by offsetting 25% more CO2 than its network of 3,200 Validators spread all over the world is accountable for. This makes the Elrond Network a truly sustainable, decentralized and highly performant blockchain infrastructure for DeFi, NFTs, IoT and the new internet economy.

“Elrond’s rapidly evolving internet-scale blockchain technology is perhaps the most advanced in the space, which creates an asymmetric opportunity for Elrond to rapidly catch up with – and perhaps even surpass – the biggest blockchain ecosystems.” said Danilo S. Carlucci, Morningstar Ventures Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer. “We’re thrilled to take this opportunity and build alongside the hardest working team and most engaged community.” 

Morningstar Ventures is ready to mobilize significant resources to raise awareness about opportunities in the Elrond ecosystem and will invest $15 million USD into disruptive decentralized projects building with internet-scale technology.

The first project to receive a strategic placement from the Morningstar fund is holoride, the Audi-backed extended reality media platform that seeks to add new dimensions to every car ride through the use of Virtual Reality, in-motion sensors, and haptic feedback devices, with a fair, transparent and sustainable content economy running on the Elrond blockchain.

Morningstar Ventures’s Elrond Dubai incubator will be focused on seizing strategic opportunities for the Elrond ecosystem in the UAE and across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, where blockchain technology sees rapidly growing interest at institutional and government levels.

“The explosive growth of the Elrond ecosystem happened with an unstoppable team building internet-scale technology and an amazing community supporting them. Now, major players such as Morningstar Ventures are making significant long term commitments aimed at the rapid adoption of our tech.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO. “This signals the start of the next explosive growth phase for the Elrond ecosystem, where driven builders will leverage powerful devkits to  innovate at the forefront of the blockchain Supercycle.” 

Extraordinary teams looking to build with Elrond technology, that are at least in an advanced ideation phase, can reach out to Morningstar Ventures to apply for funding and support by sending an email at elrond@morningstar.ventures

About Elrond

Elrond is the internet-scale blockchain, designed from scratch to bring a 1000-fold cumulative improvement in throughput and execution speed. To achieve this, Elrond introduces two key innovations: a novel Adaptive State Sharding mechanism, and a Secure Proof of Stake (PoS) algorithm, enabling linear scalability with a fast, efficient, and secure consensus mechanism. Thus, Elrond can process upwards of 15,000 transactions per second (TPS), with 6-second latency, and negligible cost, attempting to become the backbone of a permissionless, borderless, globally accessible internet economy.

To find out more, visit the Elrond website at www.elrond.com

Join Elrond on Telegram: https://t.me/ElrondNetwork

Keep up with Elrond on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elrondnetwork

Contacts

• Danilo S. Carlucci
• danilo@morningstar.ventures

Delhi, India, 12th October, 2021,

Derived Finance, a Multi-Chain Synthetics Trading Platform, successfully completed a funding round that raised over $3.3 Million across more than 30 venture funds.  Some of the biggest firms in crypto investment participated in the funding round, led by GSR and including AU21, Poolz, Nabais Capital, Dweb3, Occamfi, Genblock Capital, among others.

The venture firms participating were enthusiastic about the value proposition of Derived, as well as the development progress made to date.  At its core, Derived takes its name from derived (or synthetic) tokens, which are representative of real tokens, stocks, or assets.    This allows traders of the assets to own them without having to hold the underlying asset, and any asset with a reliable or easily trackable price can be traded using derived tokens.  The benefit of using derived tokens is that users can gain exposure to the assets, providing leverage to trade both digital and traditional assets while still staying in a decentralised blockchain ecosystem.  

Bharat Verma, CEO of Derived Finance, said in response to the successful funding round:  “We are thankful to all the investors who reposed their faith in us and joined the fundraiser. More than 30 Venture funds participated in the funding round, with over $3.3 million raised.”

He added, “Together we will use the synergies to build Derived Finance, which is the next-gen Multi chain Synthetics Trading Platform.”

With the funds raised, key features are being developed for the Derived Finance platform.  Multi Chain Support will be key for the platform to operate across a wide variety of crypto ecosystems, and the team plans to be the first and only multi-chain Synthetics trading platform. The current lineup of supported ecosystems includes Polkadot, Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Cardano, and Avalanche, with additional capacity planned for all major chains in the future.  Staking rewards for traders is another key draw, with the ability to receive rewards while still able to use the staked token to trade on the platform.  To support the global market, Derived will support multiple currencies, allowing users to trade in their native currency while being able to trade on global derivatives.  

About Derived Finance:

Derived is a Multi-Chain Synthetics Trading Platform that is leveraging the interoperability features of Polkadot to make the platform available across Blockchains. The Derived platform allows leveraged minting (up to 3x) to its platform users. 

Derived will also be the first platform that would allow its user unique features like the ability to create and trade Hybrid Tokens and allow access to features like Binary Options, Multiple native currency support, 0% Slippage Dex with Unlimited liquidity among many others. The IDO will be conducted on 13th and 14th of October 2021.

Contacts

• Press
• info@marketacross.com

Moscow, Russia, 12th October, 2021,

 With the mobile trend sweeping over the world, more and more internet users spend increasingly larger amounts of time on their smartphones and tablets. Mobile gaming, in particular, has been a driving force behind the growth of the gaming industry, being responsible for almost 50% of the video game revenue worldwide.

As the penetration rate of mobile and smartphone usage continues to accelerate, it is no wonder YAY Games, a decentralized gaming marketplace, has established a partnership with SmartEcoSystem company to bring an exclusive smartphone product.

YAY Games AYYA Smartphone

SmartEcoSystem specializes in the development and production of consumer devices operating in LTE and 5G networks. They are engaged in designing and developing relatively simple data transmission devices and complex hardware and software systems.  Currently, the company’s priority is the development of products for data transmission in LTE networks as the most widespread in Russia and the world. 

One of the essential directions of the company’s activity is the development of smartphones under the AYYA brand with a further release on the market. The AYYA smartphone presents a unique ecosystem that opens up access to useful intelligent features for a wide range of users to make their life easier and safer. 

But what’s more important, AYYA smartphones will be released with a pre-installed copy of Bold Point. As a groundbreaking NFT role-playing card game, Bold Point is the first flagship product of the YAY Games platform and will be released on Q4 of this year. 

Besides the above-mentioned, YAY Games and SmartEcoSystem have also discussed launching a limited version of AYYA Smartphones dedicated to the release of Bold Point. This new model will provide users with a new level of communication security.

“We are pleased to announce the release of a limited batch of the AYYA Bold Point smartphone. YAY Games is launching a truly innovative product on the market, which fully corresponds to our company’s philosophy. AYYA smartphone and Bold Point game represent the development of already familiar products in new directions.” 

– General Director of SmartEcoSystem LLC Vladislav Ivanov

YAY Games

YAY Games provides a platform for decentralized games built on Blockchain technology. The games featured on YAY store all in-game data like achievements, objects, actions in the public domain. Thus, it’s completely impossible to twist game mechanics in favor of the administration or the players.

YAY took the best of gaming and crypto industries by adding innovative mining game mechanics, which include the incorporation of and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) tokens and Decentralized Finance (Defi) features. The platform was built to target both gamers, crypto enthusiasts, and newcomers to the decentralized gaming industry.

Through the use of blockchain technology, YAY creates games for players to easily immerse themselves in fascinating virtual worlds, earn in-game achievements, participate in battles both against humans and computer opponents, and at the same time earn money while playing. 

Our research-based commentary: “Based on the analysis results of the decentralized games market at the end of 2020, we realized that the threshold for entering Defi games projects is very high for ordinary users, both in terms of financial investments and in terms of technical literacy. Therefore, we decided to develop a technical platform which will allow ordinary players to get acquainted with the crypto industry and decentralized projects by creating a friendly game with a very low entry threshold.” This decision was the Bold Point. Bold Point is an NFT-based collectible card RPG game using innovative mining mechanics. Thanks to its own Sidechain technology, Bold Point allows players to dive deeper into the world of decentralized finance and crypto industry and get all the benefits of financial innovation without connecting their real wallets: in fact, Sidechain is a sandbox within the game’s circuit. 

Bold Point

In Bold Point, gamers will have an abundance of options. Level up your character, gain experience in battles, learn devastating skills, and improve characteristics, thereby making your character stronger enough to fight in the battle arena.

All characters and achievements are unique NFT tokens that can be collected, bought, sold, and exchanged on the in-game NFT market. The game is based on an innovative gaming model at the junction of the Play-to-earn and Free-to-play models, where players can earn money without investing their funds to start the game or increase the value of their virtual assets.

For such projects, Bold Point is incredibly easy to explore and play. It’s pretty easy for newcomers to enroll in the world of decentralized finance with the help of educational and game mechanics. The most friendly approach is used to start the game – upon registration, Bold Point will carefully guide you through all the necessary steps. 

About YAY Games

YAY is a decentralized gaming marketplace designed for gamers, traders, and farmers that merges the gaming sector with decentralized finance.

YAY, at its core, is a gaming marketplace platform that is introducing multiple games in a decentralized way, utilizing blockchain technology to diminish the gap between games and decentralized finance.

We bring the regular gamer into the blockchain by adding innovative in-game mining mechanics, farming pools, and non-fungible tokens to casual games. Thus, rewarding the user based on the number of games played, achievements accomplished, tournaments, and more.

Do not miss your chance to join us on this journey through the blockchain. Follow us on Twitter, Telegram, and Medium

Contacts

CEO

• Nikolay Epifanov
• YAY Games
• ceo@yay.games