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  • Spring and Bondly NFT Partnership Unlocks Digital Potential for Creator Economy

    Spring and Bondly NFT Partnership Unlocks Digital Potential for Creator Economy

    12th May, 2021, San Francisco, California — Spring (formerly Teespring) and Bondly, premiere NFT solutions provider that empowers the next generation of NFT creators, announced today their new partnership to enable Spring’s platform for creators to sell both digital and physical product creation, unlocking a new wave of digital potential for the creator economy. Content creators will use Bondly technology on the Spring platform to create, mint and market NFTs.

    In addition, Bondly will provide expertise to develop new digital experiences between creators and fans. More than $2 billion was spent on NFTs during the first quarter of 2021 — representing an increase of about 2,100% from Q4 2020*, so there is a lot of revenue that can be generated for individual creators. These new NFT capabilities will empower the creator to be the authentic creator of the initial digital product as well as rewarded for its creation.

    Creators will now be able to simultaneously leverage Spring’s industry leading social integrations and combined with Bondly’s creation technology to sell NFTs, all accessible to fans globally at just the click of a button. Much like what they offer with their Digital Products, Spring will provide creators with a place to sell their NFTs, using their distribution channels to present fans with the opportunity to purchase them.

    Bondly will power this next generation of digital collectibles and turn year-round fan engagement into a revenue center for influencers and others wanting to maintain ongoing fan interaction through embedded NFT perks and utilities. With the arrival of Web 3.0 which has been framed as the new ‘internet of value’, this value transfer has never been more clear than with the relationship between fan and creator. The partnership between Spring and Bondly will bring creators and fans closer together, as fans are now able to engage in a fandom that is exclusively between them and the creator via the sale of NFT’s on the platform.

    Bondly opened the floodgates earlier this year, for mass NFT adoption by being the first to market with unique products in partnership with influencers and musicians and collaborations with gaming/collectibles creators. Bondly created and distributed YouTuber/Influencer Logan Paul’s first-ever limited-edition series of NFT collectibles for fans, generating $1.3M in NFT sales in the first 30-minutes.

    And through Bondly’s core product, BONDSwap, singer, songwriter PelleK released and quickly sold out the first-ever NFT music album, earning $160,000. Two-time GRAMMY award-winning group and reggae royalty Morgan Heritage was the first reggae artist in history to introduce one new song and two digitally remastered titles via an NFT, along with rare digital art.

    Spring’s platform enables creators to launch ‘social stores’ which allows creators to sell products via the social channels which have given them fame and followers, including TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. These successful partnerships resulted in explosive growth for the platform, with more than 450,000 verified creators signing up to the platform to build their socially integrated ecommerce stores as of January 2021.

    2020 saw a spike of activity, with new creator growth exploding by 135%, alongside a 92% growth in the number of creators who are actively selling their products through the platform. Spring has seen more than 30 creators become millionaires as a result of selling on the platform.

    CEO of Spring, Chris Lamontagne says:

    “NFTs give creators the ability to produce and more importantly, own their digital creations. At Spring our goal is to put the power in the hands of the creator and that begins with ownership. This is an opportunity for creative people to sell their products on the internet in a way which has not been done before. Partnering with Bondly has been excellent, we have a shared vision of a creator economy combined with NFT capabilities at scale and both understand how truly powerful that can be.”

    CEO of Bondly, Brandon Smith, said:

    “Spring and Bondly are perfect partners because we see NFTs as a fan engagement tool and work to create tailored, perk-enabled NFTs to increase the market value for creators. We focus on quality first, so that each NFT will stand the test of time and maintain its value to the fan, ensuring their perception of each creator not only remains as good as before the sale, but also actually enhances how they feel about them.”

    Spring Socials

    Website | Instagram | Twitter | Tiktok

    Bondly Socials 

    Website | Whitepaper | Telegram | Medium | Twitter | LinkedIn

    Media Contact Details
    Contact Name: Lisa Sorge
    Contact Email: lisa@bondly.finance 

    Bondly is the source of this content. This Press Release is for informational purposes only. The information does not constitute investment advice or an offer to invest.

  • The “hottest” NFT: Max Denison Pender Creates and Destroys a Self-Portrait in a Volcano

    The “hottest” NFT: Max Denison Pender Creates and Destroys a Self-Portrait in a Volcano

    Max Denison Pender, a renowned London-based artist, is on a mission to go to space in 2023 alongside Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who is choosing eight crew members to join him on his SpaceX mission. Max wants to paint the Earth from the unparalleled view provided by the moon.

    In his quest to paint the earth alongside the stars, Max has entered the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) realm and traveled to Reykjavik, Iceland, with his crew to paint a self-portrait. This self-portrait is like no other, however. Using a volcano as a stepping stone to the moon, Max set shop near the steaming hot lava and began painting.

    The extreme conditions make for a fiery show. Max can be seen in clad his spacesuit and ready to go on his journey to space. “TAKE ME TO THE MOON” can be read on the painting, along with the Icelandic saying “petta reddast” which can be roughly translated to “it’s going to be alright”.

    The piece has been digitalized and it has been turned into an NFT on OpenSea which can be found here. The way that Max chose to dispose of, or better yet, part ways with its self-portrait was by dropping down into a steaming stream of lava. The incredible destruction of his work has been covered by national and international media, capturing the footage in drones and helicopters.

    Speaking of its amazing journey, Max Denison Pender gave a brief how-to for all the ambitious artists out there. He stated:

    “How to make an NFT of a volcano and get to the moon at the same time; Go to Iceland and climb the volcano with easel, canvas and paints. Paint the volcano – don’t get gassed… Get in a helicopter and fly as close to the volcano as you can. Find a drone man crazy enough to fly your painting into the volcano – don’t forget to take a picture of the painting – it’s going to be an NFT, remember?  Make sure you ask Yusaku Maesawa to take you to the moon. Fly painting into the volcano and get on Icelandic news. Painting is now tokenized. You have your NFT.”

    About Max Denison Pender

    Since his first sold-out solo exhibition, The Heart of London, in Kensington, in the summer of 2019, Max’s work has gone from strength to strength, attracting new patrons and noteworthy commissions.

    In the run-up to his solo show, he was the first artist in 30 years to gain access to paint the iconic exterior of 10 Downing Street. Following his exhibition, Max was invited to join Team GB as their Artist in Residence for the 2020 Olympics. He painted several known sportspeople, including the world champion boxer Anthony Joshua, in his gym during his training camp.

    Max has also painted a series of everyday heroes, including the two critical care nurses who the prime minister singled out for saving his life. The pictures painted from life are currently displayed in Number 10 next to the Prime Minister’s office.

    Max is on track to become the hottest artist of the 21st century and if he goes to space in 2023, we will be seeing a lot more about Max in the many years to come. You can find out more about the NFT and how to purchase it here.

  • dotmoovs Raises $840,000 From Strategic Investors and Partners

    dotmoovs Raises $840,000 From Strategic Investors and Partners

    Tallinn, Estonia, 12th May, 2021,

    dotmoovs, an NFT platform powered by advanced computer vision algorithms has successfully completed a private funding round of $840,000 from notable investors. Amongst the investors are Moonrock Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, Ascensive Assets, Rarestone, Building Blocks, MarketAcross, AU21 and GBV Capital.

    The sports industry needs a solution for giving everyone a real chance to earn from their skills. dotmoovs is designed to bridge the gap between physical and geographic limitations, assessment of skill and finally – monetisation. Our vision is to build a powerful sports platform where everyone can challenge their friends or any other similar skilled players in the World for a challenge in their favourite sport.

    “We are proud to have such notable investors joining us in building the first crypto mobile worldwide sports competitive environment. We know they can boost our growth and provide industry specific insight and knowledge which will be a deciding factor for us” said Ricardo Martins Costa, head of growth of dotmoovs.

    “Our vision is a robust platform powered by blockchain and a state-of-the-art AI system that can analyse videos of players performing sports challenges in real-time” Ricardo adds. 

    “Moonrock Capital and Morningstar Ventures have come together to assist in incubating and bringing the dotmoovs project together. We are grateful and honored by the trust shown by dotmoovs’ team to become their official incubators and lead investors. Working closely with the team for some time now, we are highly impressed with their professionalism, expertise, and what they’ve developed so far. We are very excited to see this ambitious and revolutionary project come to life – combining sports, blockchain, and NFTs with dotmoovs’ vision of growth. The level of their supporting technology is not something we see every day. For these reasons, we are thrilled to be a part of dotmoovs’ journey and helping them achieve their vision.” said Simon Dedic, Managing Partner Moonrock Capital, and Danilo Carlucci, CIO Morningstar Ventures.

    About dotmoovs

    dotmoovs is the first crypto mobile worldwide competitive environment. The platforms allow users to compete with others around the world just by bringing their skills, ambition, and smartphone. dotmoov’s AI-based video referee will assess their performance in real-time. Powered by blockchain technology, sport competition will enable fair challenges and access to unique digital assets.

    Website | Twitter | Telegram | Telegram Announcements 

    Contacts
    • Ricardo Martins Costa
    • ricardo@dotmoovs.com
  • Virtue Poker to launch IDO on SuperStarter in partnership with SuperFarm

    Virtue Poker to launch IDO on SuperStarter in partnership with SuperFarm

    Ta’ Xbiex, Malta, 12th May, 2021,

    SuperFarm, an NFT platform specialized in supporting NFT and fungible token yield farming, has partnered with Virtue Poker a ConsenSys-backed platform for playing provably fair poker on the blockchain that recently closed a $5m funding round. 

    Virtue Poker will be holding an Initial DEX Offering (IDO) on SuperStarter, SuperFarm’s new launchpad, as well as other joint initiatives post-IDO to integrate NFTs into Virtue Poker.

    In the IDO, Virtue Poker will put a small portion of its VPP tokens for sale on SuperStarter, opening up access to SuperFarm’s community, who will be offered an exclusive chance to become Virtue Poker token holders. The VPP token can be staked to run Justice Nodes and earn 50% of the platform’s fees, in addition to its utility for accessing marketing initiatives, saving on fees and shaping the development of the Virtue Poker platform.

    “We’re excited to be helping spread NFT adoption to new types of ecosystems and use cases,” said Elliot Wainmann, Founder of SuperFarm. “Virtue Poker makes for an excellent partner for our recently introduced SuperStarter platform, showcasing its enormous benefits to the SuperFarm community and the high caliber of projects wishing to integrate NFTs in their stack.”

    “As we approach a full mainnet release, partnering with SuperFarm for launching NFTs helps  immortalize this historic moment for us,” said Ryan Gittleson, Founder and CEO of Virtue Poker. “We believe using Ethereum to create a provably fair and easy-to-access poker platform will be revolutionary for the multi-billion-dollar online poker industry.”

    SuperStarter is a decentralized protocol by SuperFarm that allows new and promising projects to conduct private presales and Initial DEX Offerings (IDO), while guaranteeing compliance and security.

    The platform offers a complete suite of launchpad tools, including support in fundraising, marketing, development, as well as generalized advisory support. It is pioneering a decentralized vetting approach to bringing new projects, using a council of proven fundamental analysts to approve only the best submissions.

    Virtue Poker was developed within ConsenSys in 2016 and saw multiple successful rounds of investment that included Pantera Capital, Fenbushi Capital, ConsenSys, and other major backers. Its most recent Private Sale held in April 2021 raised $5 million from backers such as DFG Group, Digital Strategies, Flurry Capital and JRR.

    About SuperFarm

    SuperFarm is a cross-chain DeFi protocol designed to bring utility to any token by turning it into an NFT farm with no code required. SuperFarm provides a bridge between current crypto ecosystems and the explosive gaming industry. NFTs from SuperFarm and Official Partner Farms will gain utility within real AAA video games. In this ecosystem, NFTs are no longer just pixels on a screen, but hold power to unlock unique digital experiences.

    About Virtue Poker

    Virtue Poker is a decentralized poker platform that uses the Ethereum blockchain and peer-to-peer networking to provide an online poker site that’s safe, honest and fun. It was founded in 2016 within Consensys, the leading full stack Ethereum software engineering company and incubator founded by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin in 2014. Backed by Consensys and stakeholder Phil Ivey, Virtue Poker is on a mission to make blockchain-based betting mainstream. 

    Contacts
    • Ryan Gittleson
    • ryan@virtue.poker
  • Pera Finance to List on PancakeSwap, Plans to Solve Problems Plaguing DeFi

    Pera Finance to List on PancakeSwap, Plans to Solve Problems Plaguing DeFi

    PERA, the Pera Finance token, will launch and list on PancakeSwap in less than three weeks, the DeFi protocol’s road map reveals.

    What is Pera Finance?

    Pera Finance is a multi-layered and sustainable yield farming ecosystem with an integrated full-featured options platform. It will launch on the highly scalable, interoperable, and low-fee Binance Smart Chain (BSC).

    Distinctively, Pera Finance is not a fork of any other project and was built from the ground up with its custom sorting algorithm technology.

    The trading and options protocol plans to be the world’s first platform for decentralized trading competition, rewarding both the supply and demand side liquidity.

    Smart Contracts Audited by Halborn

    Halborn—a respectable blockchain security firm and their security advisor–completed the auditing of the protocol’s smart contracts. Pera Finance’s smart contracts have an in-built volume oracle for automatically rewarding the top-10 traders daily.

    Upon listing on PancakeSwap—the UniSwap alternative and one of the most active decentralized exchanges in BSC–Pera Finance would add modular integration of trading solutions to other DeFi trading platforms.

    Eventually, Pera Finance will launch an Options trading platform.

    The Expansion of DeFi

    DeFi, as a smart contract-powered sub-sector focusing on advancing financial inclusion, has expanded to command billions. 

    Trackers on May 5 reveals that DeFi protocols launching on Ethereum alone manage over $75 billion of diverse digital assets. The value is higher considering the number of innovative DeFi platforms launching daily on alternative smart contracting platforms that are both scalable and low fee.

    Problems Faced by DeFi Protocols

    Pera Finance is strategically launching on the interoperable BSC, looking to solve problems that continuously plague DeFi in the present state. 

    While DeFi’s liquidity has significantly improved over the last few months, open finance protocols deliberately subsidize their supply-side liquidity. This results in degen farming which creates an unneeded vector for pump and dumps.

    Also, whenever protocols subsidize their supply-side liquidity using their native tokens—most of which have no actual utility—the result is unsustainable farming for token holders.

    Besides, in the current DeFi setup, no protocol actively rewards active traders that create actual demand for their liquidity.

    On top of poor tokenomics and incentives, there is a need to overall the current system mostly to spark activity and make the sphere more sustainable over the long term.

    The Pera Finance Solution

    Pera Finance will connect liquidity providers and traders to strategically counter existing problems in DeFi.

    They will also introduce sustainable DEX-based yield farming with daily competition–a common feature in centralized exchanges– to utilize the DEX’s liquidity without moving it anywhere, a divergence from the standard practice.

    Also, to attract more users, Pera Finance competition rewards would be higher than those offered by centralized exchanges.

    From their models, the ecosystem will be dispensing roughly $19.6k of rewards every day where winners stand to pocket $4.5k.

    The objective of daily competitions will be to reward and improve the user experience for traders. The project reckons that this is critical since traders provide demand for existing liquidity.

    Pera Finance will be the first protocol to launch a yield farming experience built around a decentralized trading competition.

    The protocol also plans to offer customizable trading competition services for other projects in return for multiple token yields that directly benefit PERA holders.

    Distinctively, Pera Finance will also introduce PERA. The token has both inflationary and deflationary mechanics. Before launch, Pera Finance’s design has been rigorously tested via multiple finance models for long-term viability.

    As their Proof-of-Concept, PERA will be eventually extended to other DeFi protocols whose trading volumes (or liquidity) will likely dry up.

  • DAO1 Governance and Utility Token to Launch Soon on YFDAI Launchpad

    DAO1 Governance and Utility Token to Launch Soon on YFDAI Launchpad

    DAO1 becomes the latest blockchain project to be selected by the YFDAI Launchpad

     May 11, 2021, Singapore:  DAO1, the one-of-a-kind community-driven blockchain project created to offer socio economic benefits to the crypto community and beyond, has officially announced its acceptance to the YFDAI Launchpad program. As a part of the coveted program, DAO1 will be launching its native ERC20 utility and governance token through an Initial Launchpad Offering (ILO) on the YFDAI platform.

    YFDAI Finance is a community centric, innovative DeFi project that aims to build a bridge between traditional and decentralized finance. The YFDAI Launchpad is an initiative by YFDAI Finance to promote up and coming legitimate crypto and blockchain projects by helping them create a solid token infrastructure. In addition, the program also assists participating projects with token pre-sale and listing on Uniswap as well as its own SafeSwap platform.

    DAO1 is a decentralized socio-economic platform with innovative financial products for the community. Based on the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) governance model, the platform promotes financial inclusiveness by enabling accessibility to innovative financial products and services. Few such products and services offered by DAO1 include a Decentralized Fund (DeF) with hybrid advisory and Crypto Startup & Venture fund.

    DAO1 promotes innovation in the blockchain sector by providing the necessary platform and resources to those with innovative ideas. To identify and shape the fintech leaders of tomorrow, DAO1 has tailored hackathon and incubation programs into its offering. The effectiveness of these programs is augmented by the involvement of its own Crypto Startup and Venture Fund which not only supports promising projects but also offers an opportunity for individuals to invest in some of the hottest projects the crypto sector will ever witness.

    DAO1 also offers its users with conventional DeFi solutions like staking and yield farming as modes of earning passive income.

    As a part of the selection process, the DAO1 project was evaluated over multiple criteria by a team of experts. All crucial aspects of the project including team, business model, smart contract audits, tokenomics, etc.were found to be in order. Only after the project passed with flying colors, the YFDAI team accepted DAO1’s entry to their Launchpad program. By becoming part of the YFDAI program, DAO1 has established its credibility as a project that is going to change the prevailing crypto industry landscape.

    “The DAO1 team is elated to be part of the YFDAI Launchpad. We couldn’t have asked for any better team than the great guys at YFDAI and their dynamic community to give as a good start. YFDAI is known for picking projects with huge potential and helping them get off the mark to become successful. We will be working closely with them to ensure DAO1 is a success and along the way, we help many turn their vision into a reality,” said Chief Strategist at DAO1, Leo Georgievic.

    DAO11 will shortly announce the whitelisting process for DAO1 ILO on YFDAI Launchpad along with the timeline for token listing on Uniswap.

    About YFDAI Finance

    YFDAI is an entire permissionless DeFi ecosystem that combines Staking and Farming services and soon, Lending/Borrowing services, SafePredict, and Insurance together with their own DEX called SafeSwap and their own Launchpad where legitimate projects in the DeFi space can launch their new vetted projects with contract audits, locked liquidity and locked development tokens in time release smart contracts.

    About DAO1

    DAO1 is an all-inclusive community-led socio economic blockchain architecture with tools like Decentralized Fund (DeF), Hybrid Advisory, Startup Funds, Incubator platform, and NFT Charity initiative that empower the community to pursue financial sovereignty under excellent governance from day-one.

    Media Contact

    Official website: https://dao1.org/
    Contact email: marketing@dao1.org
    Medium: https://medium.com/@dao1official
    Discord: https://discord.gg/9eBnj67r9a
    Telegram: https://t.me/dao1globalchat
    Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DAO1/
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dao1Official

  • Raze Network Kicks Off Testnet Phase with UI Community Voting

    Raze Network Kicks Off Testnet Phase with UI Community Voting

    Singapore, Singapore, 11th May, 2021,

    Raze Network, the first Polkadot-based privacy protocol, is bracing to engage community members with our first testnet. Early birds will be able to provide feedback on the quality, function, and overall experience of the Polkadot-based privacy protocol.

    This huge milestone clears the way for ‘Razers’ and collaborators to easily test drive the newest features and allows plenty of maturation time for these new features to be fully tested.

    Our team already started designing the user interface of the privacy protocol we promised to launch. However, we want to resort to the collective wisdom of our community on how to actually bring this to realization, thus launching this UI Community Voting Campaign. 

    The beta testnet marks the latest step forward in Raze Network’s overall mission to enable the broader community to contribute to the evolution of our trustless decentralized privacy protocol.

    Raze Network’s applications present the decentralized finance (DeFi) community with a cross-chain middleware solution on Polkadot for concealing transactions when operating on decentralized exchanges. 

    With a clear vision and solid use-case, the protocol-based solution leverages the Polkadot ecosystem to offer the required privacy layer for the crypto sphere. The privateness protocol aims to guard anonymity for all the DeFi stack on the Polkadot.

    To achieve higher participation during the testnet, Raze Network is organizing a number of events, competitions, and challenges to encourage participants to actively test critical components of our ecosystem. Specifically, we will airdrop 1,000 $RAZE tokens to 10 lucky voters based on how many entries they generated to vote for the best UI style.

    $RAZE is set be the lifeblood of the Raze Network, designed as a utility token to represent participation in the ecosystem. 

    The launch of Raze Network’s UI testnet comes on the heels of several other recent milestones, including a robust set of developer resources and partnerships that continues to expand.

    Just in April, we announced the strategic listing of Raze token on the popular DeFI platform, Uniswap. This listing closely follows our completed triple IDO event on three launchpads. 

    Interestingly, apart from going live on DEX exchanges, $RAZE tokens will also soon be listed on several tier-1 centralized exchanges.

    This networked testnet release allows Raze to continue working with our partners towards the mass adoption of decentralized applications and smart contracts. 

    Since inception, Raze Network sought to develop an infrastructure that is easy to understand and smooth to navigate. One where even new users can reap the benefits of a cross-chain middleware solution for anonymous transactions, payments trading, and mining.

    Although the token launch is done, the real work starts. Most recently, we have completed the development of mint, transfer and redeem contracts in Solidity. Currently we are testing how to deploy these contracts on EVM.

    Also the major front-end and client modules that can invoke the aforementioned contracts have been developed. 

    About Raze Network

    Raze Network is a Substrate-based cross-chain privacy protocol for the Polkadot ecosystem. It is built as a native privacy layer that can provide end-to-end anonymity for the entire DeFi stack. The Raze Network applies zk-SNARKs to the Zether framework to build a second-layer decentralized anonymous module.

    It will then be imported as a Substrate-based smart contract. The objective of Raze Network is to enable cross-chain privacy-preserving payment and trading systems while protecting the transparency of your assets and behaviors from surveillance.

    Contacts
    • Justin Kelliso
    • contact@raze.network
  • Shield Finance completes a $780K round to create a Defi Insurance aggregator leading up to an IDO

    Shield Finance completes a $780K round to create a Defi Insurance aggregator leading up to an IDO

    Chiang Mai, Thailand, 11th May, 2021,

    Shield Finance, a multi-chain DeFi insurance aggregator that will deploy across the Polkadot, Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain and Solana blockchains announced today the completion of their private fundraising rounds, having successfully reached the hard cap amount of $780 000. Private Investors.   

    Shield Finance’s potential combined with it’s seasoned team attracted immense support from industry innovators including Master Ventures / PAID Network, DAO Maker, Zokyo, NGC Ventures, Spark Digital Capital, GD10.Ventures, Titan Ventures and others.

    The decentralized finance movement has been growing exponentially over the past year growing from $700 million by December 2019 to $65 billion as of April 2021. DeFi gives users full control over their money and financial future but this freedom comes with some drawbacks. As thousands of retail investors enter the attractive DeFi marketplace there are a variety of risks they have to take into consideration including market crashes, price volatility, and security issues. Until only recently, the DeFi has lacked any insurance options to give users peace of mind when investing in these new financial products. This is about to change. 

    Shield Finance is a DeFi insurance aggregator that aims to protect token investments from hacks, rug pulls, market crashes and other DeFi-related risks. It does this through a proprietary aggregation engine that provides custom insurance packages for investor needs. Shield Finance could be referred to as the Skyscanner for DeFi insurance; users can see and select offers from multiple insurance providers without leaving the token platform.

    “Insurance plays an important role in DeFi as a way to de-risk your investments. With a number of insurance players in the market, a multi-chain insurance aggregator will naturally attract users as a go-to place to buy insurance. This fundraise will be instrumental in driving the growth and development of Shield Finance.” Denis Gorbachev, CEO of Shield Finance

    Shield Finance aims to dominate the cryptocurrency insurance market by partnering with DeFi exchanges, wallets, and farms. Shield Finance’s goal in doing so is twofold:; to ensure DeFi insurance purchasing is easy and simple to purchase, and to offer the cheapest DeFi insurance packages on the market.

    As the Shield Finance platform launches more exciting features will be released including a  web app and increased partnerships & integrations with insurance providers and DeFi platforms including exchanges, wallets and farms. 

    Shield Finance expects development of the platform to be complete (timeframe?) after its public IDO launch on industry driving PAID Network’s crowdfunding platform, Ignition Launchpad. Operating as a decentralized swapping protocol, Ignition allows blockchain-based token projects to offer their private and public auctions to participants, leveraging both PAID Network and Polkadot technology. Capitalizing on PAID Network’s community strength and the popularity of the Ignition Launchpad platform the success of Shield Finance’s public IDO is all but certain. 

    Shield Finance IDO is set to take place May 19th, 2021 on PAID Network’s Ignition Launchpad at 11:00 AM UTC Ignition – IDO Launchpad on PAID Network

    About Shield Finance

    Shield Finance  is a Multi-Chain DeFi Insurance Aggregator that allows users to buy protection against major market crashes due to black swan events (hacks, exploits, rug pulls, sell-offs). Incubated by Master Ventures (MV Fuel), Shield utilizes a proprietary aggregation engine to provide custom insurance packages for investor needs. The $SHLD token enables governance and provides staking rewards at 30% stable APY – however, the most important feature of the $SHLD token is the “buy & burn” program. Every quarter, it redirects 50% of fees generated by users to buy the $SHLD token on the open market & burn it, which results in permanent reduction of supply.

    Connect to Shield Finance:

    Website: shieldfinance.io

    Telegram: @ShieldFinanceHQ

    Twitter: @ShieldFinance

    Medium: @ShieldFinanceHQ 

    Contacts
    • Denis Gorbachev
    • ceo@shieldfinance.io
  • The STC Token is Live – And Over 10 Crypto Exchanges are Ready for It

    The STC Token is Live – And Over 10 Crypto Exchanges are Ready for It

    Being backed up by over 500 universities due to its unique approach towards students and cryptocurrencies, Student Coin succeeded in selling all its STC tokens dedicated to the ICO.

    Although the Launchpad was intended to last until April 30th, the 150th phase ended nine days sooner due to the popular demand for the STC token. Therefore, in less than two months, Student Coin sold no less than 5 billion tokens.

    Now that the ICO is over, all that’s left to do is go to the crypto exchanges and get it while it’s fresh – because it has all the chances to increase in value quickly.

    Where can you buy the STC token?

    First of all, you can buy it directly from the Studentcoin.app – this is the easiest way to get it in just a couple of seconds. 

    At the moment, four crypto exchanges listed the STC token up for trading: Uniswap, Waves Exchange, Bithumb Global, CoinTiger. 

    Besides them, four other exchanges are ready to list the token by the end of May. We are talking about:

    • Coinsbit – on 12 May 2021;
    • P2PB2B – on 13 May 2021; 
    • Bitcoin.com Exchange – on 13 May 2021; 
    • ProBit – on 15 May 2021.

    And for the following weeks, they will be joined by HitBTC, Changelly, Changelly Pro, CrossTower, Bequant, ACDX, and two other major exchanges that will be announced after May 9th. 

    What is the use of the STC token?

    If this is the first time you heard about it, note that the STC token is the core of an entire ecosystem built especially for students and entrepreneurs.

    Therefore, the STC token is not just for trading, but it offers the opportunity to build your own token and sell it through a crowdfunding proposal.

    This project aims to provide students with another option of paying their tuition besides a bank credit. You may already know that getting a loan from a bank comes with a lack of transparency, variable interest, and almost no security.

    Now, all users have to do is to customize their token on the platform, whose value will be based on the STC token. After that, they can initiate a crowdfunding proposal on the platform, get the money needed, exchange them, and pay their tuition right off the bat.

    And even better, the investors will be paid back cyclically by the students just after they graduate and find a steady job. This process can also be used by entrepreneurs, who will pay back the money just after their company generates enough profit.

    What other products does Student Coin have?

    As we said before, Student Coin is a whole ecosystem, which means there is more than the STC token on the line.

    Let’s take a look at them!

    1. The learning section

    Here you can find a lot of courses about crypto, organized by the level of difficulty.

    However, as opposed to other educational crypto platforms, Student Coin made the courses interactive. Each section of the chapters comes with a short test, whose passing is mandatory to read the following pages. 

    1. The STC Wallet

    Here, users can access their assets, whether they are obtained from trades or created by them. To get to your account, Phemex needs a unique code that is sent to your email for a plus of security.  

    Besides that, you can access weekly insights, get all the important news about the STC Token, and even stake your assets up to six months for 5 to 13% APY.  

    The staking option was released on May 6th, and in less than 24h, over 30% of tokens got staked, which means no less than 1.5 billion STC of all the tokens sold in the Launchpad. 

    1. The STC Terminal (available by the end of July)

    We talked about it earlier. This app allows users to customize their own STC-based token without having any kind of technical knowledge. And there’s a lot of options to choose from:

    • Personal tokens;
    • Startup tokens;
    • Corporate tokens;
    • DeFi tokens;
    • NFT tokens.
    1. The STC Exchange (available from Q3 2021)

    Which is self-explanatory, being the place where users can easily trade their assets for crypto or fiat with greater value.

    Who backs up the STC Ecosystem?

    Student Coin was built with the help of 44 team members from 12 different countries, all of them led by the young author of “Cryptocurrency Encyclopedia: the comprehensive guide through the 100 most important cryptocurrencies”.

    Besides him, in the team, we can also see the former CTO of IBM, Karolina Marzantowicz, and Stanford University teacher Andrew Kusmierz.

    Now that you know who made all of this happen, you are ready for the next step – getting the STC token and joining the crypto community!

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