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Medicalchain

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Europe

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Medicalchain streamlines information flows in the medical field. It announced a partnership with The Groves Medical Group, making it the first medical practice in the UK to use blockchain technology and to accept cryptocurrency as payment for health services.

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3NUM

3NUM Shield is an anonymous web3 mobile number that protects a user’s identity and provides private, secure messaging.

Aura

Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), Prada Group, Cartier, Mercedes-Benz, and OTB Group partnered to launch The Aura Blockchain Consortium, to develop a unified blockchain solution for luxury brands for creating a “circular business model” while increasing transparency and trust for the customers.

BitPay

BitPay is an app for buying, storing, swapping, and spending cryptocurrency. Ralph Lauren partnered with BitPay to accept cryptocurrency payments - including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and MATIC - in its new store in Miami’s Design District.

Chivo Wallet

The Government of El Salvador created the Chivo Wallet to send payments in dollars or Bitcoin. The El Salvador Central Reserve Bank reported that Chivo processed $50+ million in remittances in the first 5 months of 2022.

Chronicled

Chronicled aims to automate transactions between trading partners in the Life Sciences Industry. It has partnerships with large companies like Pfizer, McKesson, Bayer, among others.

Circle

Circle began as a peer-to-peer payments technology company that now manages the stablecoin USD Coin (USDC). As of June 11, 2023, there’s $28+ billion USDC in circulation among 1.7 million holders. Circle is trusted by a number of large institutions including BlackRock, BNY Mellon, Mastercard, VISA, worldpay from FIS, MoneyGram, and Coinbase.

Circularise

Circularise is a software platform that creates “Digital Product Passports” - similar to “digital twins” - that allow for end-to-end traceability of supply chains. It has formed a number of major partnerships, including with automobile companies (e.g., Porsche and Mitsubishi), plastics companies (e.g., DOMO and Covestro), chemicals companies (e.g., Borealis) as well as Marubeni Corporation (a Japanese trading and investment conglomerate), Neste (Finnish oil refiner), and the City of Amsterdam.

Comm

Comm is a crypto-native chat application (i.e., Discord but for Web3) that allows communities to host their own backend.

Constellation

Constellation is a privately backed, founder-led blockchain ecosystem focused on big data. The US Air Force (UASF) began contracting Constellation through a DOD partnership (”Phase I + II”) in 2019 to modernize the cybersecurity of its backend systems. More specifically, the USAF wants to effectively and efficiently transfer confidential data across their Defense Transportation System commercial airlift partners without sacrificing cost or speed. The USAF and Constellation are now in Phase III of their research and development.

Diagonal Finance

Diagonal allows businesses to integrate cryptocurrency payments as well as facilitates subscription payment services.

Felix

Through an integration with WhatsApp, Felix allows individuals to send fast and cheap payments, with a focus on Latin America.

Frax

Frax is the first algorithmic stablecoin backed by a fractional reserve.

GainForest

GainForest fights deforestation by connecting donors with transparent environmental rehabilitation efforts through indigenous communities that receive financial compensation for choosing to preserve their land. For example, individuals can buy reputable offsets that contribute to conservation efforts. GainForest then monitors these preserved areas by using a combination of on-the-ground input, drone photos, and satellite imagery, and uses self-executing smart contracts to distribute rewards to communities over time. GainForest has two on-going pilots: a partnership with Paraguay's Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADES) to address deforestation and the other with Oceanus Conservation in the Philippines to preserve mangrove ecosystems.

Kotani Pay x SympliFi x UTU

Mercy Corps Ventures (”MCV”) partnered with Kotani Pay, SympliFy, UTU, and Kwanza Tukule (a social impact company in Africa) to launch a pilot in Nairobi, Kenya that leveraged DeFi to power a Buy-Now-Pay-Later (”BNPL”) product for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (”MSMEs”), specifically for food vendors. Kotani Pay is a platform that allows blockchain fintech companies to integrate with local payment channels in Africa. SympliFi is a payments platform that aims to increase access to credit for those seeking to launch or grow a business in Africa. UTU launched the “UTU Trust Engine,” a browser extension that aims to “create trust signals and personalized recommendations” for users engaging in transactions online.

Ligero

Ligero is a platform for decentralized collaboration that uses secure multiparty computation (”MPC”) and zero-knowledge proofs (”ZKPs”).

Lugano Plan B

Lugano’s Plan B is a joint initiative between the City of Lugano and Tether to accelerate the use of and leverage Bitcoin technology to transform the city’s financial infrastructure.

MakerDAO

MakerDAO is a decentralized global reserve bank that created the Maker protocol that underpins its stablecoin (called “DAI”), as well as provides other functionalities (like governance).

MobileCoin

MobileCoin is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency and payment system for merchants. Signal integrated MobileCoin into its app for sending P2P payments worldwide.

Moss

Moss tokenizes ARR carbon credits for liquidity, traceability, security and avoiding double spending. In the past, Moss has also launched Amazon Forest NFTs for users to purchase rights related to property and protection of forested land.

Open Forest Protocol

Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is an open platform allowing forest projects to measure, report and verify their forestation data. Through OFP, individuals, communities, NGOs, entrepreneurs and governments create transparent, immutable, proof-of-impact data that is comprehensively verified by a network of independent experts.

REBO Bottle

REBO bottle measures your water intake, generates credits on blockchain for each measured use, and funds plastic collection from the ocean.

reciChain

Badische Anilin und Sodafabrik (BASF), the largest chemical producer in the world, launched reciChain - powered by Real Items - in Canada to track and sort recycled plastics through a concept known as “digital twins.” The original concept for this project came out of BASF in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Reserve

The economic turmoil and hyperinflation in LatAm is causing citizens to turn to cryptocurrencies for help. Reserve launched an app to convert fiat currency like Venezuelan bolivares for U.S. dollars via the Reserve stablecoin. After one year on the market in Venezuela, Colombia, Panama and Argentina, Reserve reports 100,000+ weekly app visitors and 8,000+ merchants accepting it as a means of payment.

Security Matters

PepsiCo partnered with Security Matters - a blockchain platform - for a pilot to address inefficiencies in its supply chain.

SIMBA Chain

For supply chain management, SIMBA has already secured contracts with a number of entities including the US Department of Defense - Air Force (USAF) and Navy - Boeing, Department of Energy, among others.

Sling

Sling allows users to send money to anyone, even if they don’t have a Sling account themselves.

Stripe Connect

Stripe launched Stripe Connect to extend its global payment services, and it will include cryptocurrency payments.

The Giving Block

The Giving Block allows individuals to make a crypto or stock donation to nonprofits, charities, universities, faith-based, and other mission-driven organizations. These organizations include the American Cancer Society and Save the Children.

TradeLens

Maersk and IBM jointly created the TradeLens platform to streamline communication and collaboration across the supply chain. One of the companies using TradeLens is Highland Foods.

Triangle

The Triangle AssetOS platform links data directly with assets for sustainability tracking, reporting, benchmarking, and analysis.

VIA

VIA’s platform enables verification, integration, and analysis of private, decentralized data and can be used in energy traceability for clean energy and carbon intensity claims. In addition, VIA also has contracts with the US Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community, including with the Air Force, Navy, and Space Force.

Zero Waste Foundation (ZWF)

ZWF built an incentive system - through its “Proof-of-Environmental-Work” protocol - to track waste and support recycling.