London, United Kingdom, 20th July, 2021,
WiV Technology, a blockchain-based trading platform for unique assets, has signed an agreement with the Georgian government to move some of the country’s wines and their provenance onto WiV’s blockchain empowered platform. The team at WiV will also be developing a quality assurance standard for the county’s wine to enhance its reputation across the globe.
Under the terms of the agreement, several Georgian wines and their associated non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will be made available to a growing global network of wine producers, collectors and enthusiasts on the WiV platform. This will bring Georgian wine to a far wider audience than it has had in the past.
WiV is also working to enhance the credibility of Georgian wine by developing a quality assurance scheme. This will be based on a panel of experts judging vintages to ensure that wines meet the highest industry standards.
Commenting on the agreement, President of Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili says “Economics is changing. Physical assets can now be turned into digital representations of the physical assets so that they can be traded more quickly and efficiently. This process works exceptionally well for wine because the digital certificates of the wine, also called wine tokens, can confirm the wine’s provenance. We want to be the first wine producing country that embraces this new approach, bringing Georgian wine to a new standard and new audiences.”
Tommy Nordam Jensen, co-founder of WiV, observes “Wine is in the DNA of the Georgian people, it’s a massive source of pride for the producers and the whole country. This agreement is a superb opportunity for us to help develop their position in the global market. By connecting fine wine with quality assurance and immutable provenance on the blockchain, we will be putting some of Georgia’s exceptional wines in front of wine merchants, collectors and enthusiasts from right across the globe. It will make it simple to trade the wine quickly, simply and cost-effectively.”
Georgian wine holds a unique position in the history of viticulture, with archaeological discoveries proving it has a wine producing heritage of more than 8,000 years. Today the country has more than 1,8000 wine producers, many using the traditional clay kveris to mature wine, rather than the more common barrel-based approach taken by fine wine producers elsewhere in the world.
About WiV Technology
WiV’s strategy is to make wine DeFi accessible for everyone. WiV.io, its award-winning fintech platform, lets producers and collectors instantly buy, sell and borrow money against their wine, providing rapid access to finance without the usual extensive bureaucratic processes that are rarely designed to take the nuances of the wine industry into account. WiV is in the process of issuing a native currency called $WiVA. This will be the foundation of the WiV ecosystem, a new, inclusive and borderless economy for real world assets in a digital world.
Contacts
CEO & Co-Founder

Victoria, Seychelles, 16th July, 2021,
A new generation of public chain – KCC (official website: https://www.kcc.io) officially launched its cross-chain bridge, the KCC Bridge. It provides bridging services to the KCC public chain by allowing native tokens on other chains to interchangeably transact and circulate on KCC. The KCC Bridge will first support stablecoins such as USDT and USDC from Ethereum to KCC. There is no gas fee for users when transmitting assets into KCC, while the gas fee on other chains may still apply. 
As the underlying technical infrastructure, the performance of public chains is key to the scalability of the crypto industry. Despite having a sizable ecosystem, mainstream public chains such as Ethereum and Polygon have encountered challenges and choke points in terms of interaction and interoperability with other public chains by being slow and inefficient. Crypto assets created on independent chains cannot access free migration. The silo system built by the pre-bridge world prohibitively affects asset transfer and user experience. Such a lack of interoperability is a big impediment to the further development of the crypto industry. 
Connectivity Solution to KCC Public Chain 
The launch of the KCC Bridge aims to provide connectivity solutions in technical terms to networks based on different protocols, rules, and governance models by seamlessly moving their data and assets. In other words, cryptocurrencies can freely circulate across their native networks and the KCC blockchain with one click.
The Ethereum-based, high-performing and decentralized public chain KCC was built by KCS’ and KuCoin’s fan communities. It has been running stably and smoothly for a month since its mainnet launch on June 16, 2021. KCC aims to offer community users a high-speed, convenient, and low-cost blockchain service. According to the on-chain data insights, KCC block height has exceeded 1.2 million, and the number of addresses of currency holders has reached approximately 25,000. The average block time is stable within 3 seconds. 
The main focus of the KCC community in the following stage is to enrich the ecosystem further. Meanwhile, KCC public chain Grants was launched on June 18, 2021 to support and encourage global developers to deploy and build various tools and Dapps on top of KCC. KCC is currently recruiting ambassadors of expertise from technical and marketing backgrounds to promote its further growth. The stable running of the KCC Bridge is expected to bring in more diversified mainstream public chains and their native assets to the KCC ecosystem. 
About KCC 
Built by KCS’ and KuCoin’s fan communities , KCC is a decentralized public chain with high performance. It features high throughput, low latency, low transaction cost, and satisfactory security and stability. In addition, it aims to improve the on-chain processing power and performance with the Proof of Staked Authority (PoSA) consensus mechanism by reducing the block confirmation time to within 3 seconds. It adopts KCS as the on-chain gas fee to reduce the overall transaction costs. By building up a “faster transaction confirmation speed,” “higher transaction performance,” and “lower transaction fees,” KCC aims to provide community users with faster, more convenient, and lower-cost experiences. For more details, please visit https://www.kcc.io/. 
Contacts

About Alkimi Exchange
Alkimi Exchange is building the world’s first decentralised advertising exchange, with the mission to bring the benefits of decentralised networks, DeFi and rewards to programmatic advertising. Working in partnership with Constellation Networks, and using their Hypergraph, Alkimi Exchange will disrupt the $340bn digital advertising industry, creating a cheaper and more efficient advertising ecosystem, where all participants stand to gain by working together to create a fair value exchange. Fewer ads. Better user experience, increased engagement.
“We built the Alkimi Exchange to reestablish the intended value exchange between users, publishers and advertisers. We believe in a different world that can be born from our cataclysmic event, when ID’s disappear and it appears we have nothing, we can create something.”
Users — See fewer, better ads
Advertisers — Reach an engaged audience
Publishers — Regain control to the means for their success and continue to produce innovative and creative content
Alkimi is just the first in a string of companies set to build on Constellation’s Hypergraph Network. Combining the compatibility to integrate with existing infrastructures along with a new groundbreaking way for projects to fundraise, will lead to a future of hundreds of projects, making Constellation ubiquitous in all industries. Through projects like Alkami, Constellation is set to redefine not only the blockchain space as a whole, but the way entire industries utilize its power, benefitting both consumers and stakeholders alike and bridging the gap between the real and digital worlds by providing a simple way to build a business on blockchain.
About Constellation
Constellation Network Inc, is a decentralized network and ecosystem that enables seamless and secure communications between big data infrastructure and interoperability between blockchains. Using their distributed network, called Hypergraph, Constellation enables fast, zero trust, scalable solutions for enterprises and the US federal government, to improve data integrity and data assurance. The company utilizes a decentralized directed acyclic graph (DAG) network, and mathematical proofs to organize the network for speed, security.
Ben Jorgensen, CEO of Constellation comments, “We are excited to support Alkimi Exchange migrate the entire digital advertising industry to be decentralized. The digital advertising industry has been around for nearly 30 years and this is the most disruptive business I can imagine. The Constellation Network is the only network built to handle the speed and security of digital advertising.”
Alkimi Exchange was founded by industry veterans who have seen, first hand, 49% of a $340 billion industry go to waste due to inefficient legacy advertising technologies. By building on top of Constellation’s Hypergraph, Alkimi is shifting the paradigm, requiring people to stake DAG (Constellation Network’s native token) during the development process of Alkimi. Requiring people to stake DAG will ensure there is sufficient bandwidth to support real-time bidding (RTB) trading of digital ad impressions, which are traded in high volumes and within milliseconds, much like cryptocurrencies. Beyond securing network utility on Constellation’s Hypergraph, this will enable cross-chain liquidity between other ecosystems, and revolutionize how projects are backed, as one of the few projects that require staking of utility tokens.
“As long term supporters of Constellation, we’re delighted to be partnering with the team in our mission to revolutionize the $340bn digital advertising market. Once we discovered Constellation, we realized that the Hypergraph was the only way to solve the problems facing our industry – from undisclosed margins, to fraudulent inventory and complete audibility of the supply chain” said Neil Bruce, CCO of Alkimi Exchange. “We’ve been blown away by the support that the Constellation team provides us and we are excited to show you all everything we’ve been working on.”
Constellation announced that Alkimi Exchange is building the first decentralized ad exchange and will be one of the first L_0 tokens and state channel businesses to be launched on the Hypergraph Protocol.
Network launched their Project Submissions program, opening applications for developers who wish to build on Constellation’s Hypergraph with the L_0 token standard – a highly scalable ledger using a distributed Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) architecture that is compatible with existing digital infrastructures. It is that compatibility that gives Constellation Network the ability to disrupt entire industries, allowing developers to integrate blockchain technology in existing digital infrastructure ensuring faster speed and more scalability than traditional blockchain protocols.
Contact
[email protected]

Zug, Switzerland, 14th July, 2021,
Bridge Wallet, the cryptocurrency mobile app developed by Swiss FinTech Mt Pelerin, launched support for Tezos with a zero fees on-ramp and off-ramp for XTZ, the native cryptocurrency of the Tezos blockchain. Mt Pelerin is dedicated to building bridges between the crypto economy with traditional finance and is excited to bring their non-custodial mobile app Bridge Wallet to the Tezos ecosystem. Additionally, Mt. Pelerin is excited to announce Tezos will power Mt Pelerin’s open source asset tokenization platform, to support the issuance and management of compliant tokenized securities such as shares, bonds or funds.
Bridge Wallet is the gateway to a new world of money, the mobile wallet, which now supports Tezos and its XTZ token, focuses on facilitating direct fiat to crypto investments and easy crypto withdrawals. With more than 13,000 users today, Bridge Wallet is gaining traction for offering completely free crypto-fiat transactions, with no commission, inflated spread or hidden costs. 
Tezos celebrated its three year anniversary this year, making it one of the first and longest running Proof of Stake blockchains. Network activity on Tezos has grown 1,200 percent this year due in part to its energy-efficient design and ease of use. Game developers, music labels, sporting franchises, central banks, and more are all building on Tezos. Tezos also has a growing DeFi ecosystem with ERC-20 bridges for low-gas cross-chain utility, yield farming protocols, and surging AMM platforms.
What sets Tezos apart from other blockchain protocols is that it is built to evolve with industry advancements. Its modular architecture and formal upgrade mechanism minimizes disruptions while offering regular upgradability and enhanced functionality over time. Tezos has undergone six network upgrades to reduce gas fees, improve token standards, increase transaction speed, and more. Upgrades on Tezos are made possible by on-chain governance where continuous improvements are proposed, adopted, and deployed without forks.  
By giving access to what are essentially OTC rates to all its users, Bridge Wallet provides better rates than centralized exchange platforms. With Bridge Wallet, Tezos users can purchase and cash out XTZ by bank transfer at no cost, up to a certain threshold – from $500 to $50,000 for holders of MPS tokens, the tokenized shares of Mt Pelerin – above which a small degressive commission is charged. Instant card purchases and withdrawals will also be available soon for XTZ.
More details about Bridge Wallet:
Available in 171 countries (US excluded), full list here
Purchase currencies: CHF, EUR, GBP, USD (more coming soon)
Cash out currencies: CHF, EUR, GBP, USD, AED, ARS, AUD, CAD, CNH, CZK, DKK, HKD, HUF, ILS, JPY, KRW, MXN, NOK, NZD, PLN, RON, RUB, SAR, SEK, SGD, THB, TRY, ZAR
Available on iOS and Android in multiple languages
Tezos mainnet and testnet supported
Download Bridge Wallet
Learn more about Tezos at Tezos.com
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About Mt Pelerin
Mt Pelerin is a regulated Swiss FinTech company providing products and services bridging the crypto world with traditional finance. It was bootstrapped by its own community through an equity crowdfunding that raised more than $2 million in 2018, the first one to offer a tokenized share with full voting and dividend rights to the public. Since then Mt Pelerin has become one of the leading actors in asset tokenization with its Bridge Protocol platform, and provides unique cryptocurrency services through its mobile app Bridge Wallet. It is currently working on the creation of a tokenized full reserve financial institution in Switzerland.
Press Contact: Yann Gerardi, [email protected]
About Tezos:
Tezos is smart money, redefining what it means to hold and exchange value in a digitally connected world. A self-upgradable and energy-efficient blockchain with a proven track record, Tezos seamlessly adopts tomorrow’s innovations without network disruptions today. For more information, please visit tezos.com 
Contacts

Singapore, Singapore, 13th July, 2021,
Gnosis Safe, a platform for managing digital assets on Ethereum, today launches on the EVM-compatible network Polygon. The launch brings Polygon’s low transaction costs and efficient throughput to Gnosis Safe’s secure, customizable multisig interface for a Layer 2 solution prioritizing composable interoperability.
For the first time, a suite of Polygon apps is aggregated in the Safe App interface, making it easy to access the network’s rapidly growing app ecosystem. Polygon Safe Apps are useful for users and dapps, as they enable discovery of many ways to use Polygon with the single, secure access point of Safe’s smart-contract multisig. They also provide an opportunity for developers to build with both Safe and Polygon, as both are completely open-source and any dapp can convert to a Safe app with just a few lines of code. 
“Bringing Gnosis Safe to Polygon creates a portal between the Safe App ecosystem and one of the most robust L2 networks emerging right now,” says Gnosis CTO Stefan George. “We’re excited to see how this partnership expands the functionality of both, enabling use cases that are not inclusive or possible on mainnet due to the efficient speed and cost of operating on Polygon with the security and extensibility of Gnosis Safe.”
Features of Gnosis Safe on Polygon Network
Gnosis Safe
Supports ETH, ERC-20 tokens and ERC-721 collectibles
Customizable permissions, like Spending Limits, solves access/control issues of EOA accounts
Extremely secure environment trusted to hold >$18billion in ETH and ERC-20s
Gasless signatures
Safe App interface brings dapps directly to access from within multisig
Polygon 
Cheap transaction costs
High, quick throughput 
Ecosystem with many native apps, and Polygon implementations of apps originating on other chains, continually increasing in offerings
Native functionalities like NFT minting
Benefits to users
Access to ecosystem of Polygon Safe apps from within one interface
DAOs, projects, teams and individuals can protect against key loss and collectively hold funds with Gnosis Safe’s multisig infrastructure
About Gnosis: Gnosis builds new market mechanisms for decentralized finance. Our interoperable product lines allow you to securely create, trade, and hold digital assets on Ethereum. Gnosis was founded in 2015 by Martin Köppelmann and Stefan George.  With a global team of more than 60 employees, Gnosis is based in Gibraltar and has a development hub in Berlin at the Full Node co-working space.
Connect with Gnosis: Website, Discord, Twitter, Gnosis Forum
Polygon is the first well-structured, easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its core component is Polygon SDK, a modular, flexible framework that supports building and connecting Secured Chains like Plasma, Optimistic Rollups, zkRollups, Validium etc and Standalone Chains like Polygon POS, designed for flexibility and independence. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 350+ Dapps, ~128M txns and ~1M+ unique users.
If you’re an Ethereum Developer, you’re already a Polygon developer! Leverage Polygon’s fast and secure txns for your Dapp, get started here.
Website | Twitter | Reddit | Discord | Telegram | Community Twitter
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Stockholm, Sweden, 13th July, 2021,
Qtum, an open-source public blockchain platform, has partnered with Travala.com, the leading cryptocurrency-friendly travel booking gateway. With such a move, Qtum is offering yet another onramp for QTUM token holders to capture value through new real-world applications.
The partnership aims to continue promoting cryptocurrency adoption with over 3 million travel products – across accommodations, activities and flights – now available to book with QTUM through Travala.com.
Users can now use QTUM to seamlessly book hotels, homes, flights, tours, with savings up to 40% as well as great discounts and daily deals. The collaboration adds further utility to the QTUM token, which will be featured alongside a growing line-up of cryptocurrencies and fiat denominations including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Travala’s native cryptocurrency, AVA. 
As countries around the world continue to roll out COVID-19 vaccines, people who have been vaccinated are now comfortable with the safety of travel, which is reflected in a steady rise in air traffic over the past few months.
On the other hand, and just as importantly, this integration will expose thousands of travelers in more than 200 countries to the QTUM token and, with it, the whole range of Qtum products. 
This alliance is also the latest push by Binance-backed Travala.com to bring its blockchain-based travel agency to a wider audience. 
These seasonal offers, promotions and other perks are not confined to existing token holders. More specifically, Travala’s client base, which boasts more than 200,000 active monthly users, will be able to buy QTUM on their preferred crypto exchange and take advantage of competitive rewards. This reflects how the potential reach of this collaboration will be far greater than just the existing QTUM user base.
Win Your Dream Weekend Trip 
In addition to allowing QTUM holders to enjoy discounts and other rewards, Qtum also has a special offer to celebrate the recent partnership with Travalacom. 
Qtum will host an AMA on July 17th at 12:00 PM UTC in Telegram channel where the winner will be announced (must be present to win). On top of this, during the AMA, a total of 1000 QTUM will be given in travel products to the community.
Lucky winners will experience a joy-filled weekend vacation with up to a total cost of $2,000, a nice chunk of change to use towards your dream trip. You can think of many places that you would love to visit with that kind of budget. 
Qtum Dream Weekend Getaway Trip prize will be awarded as a travel credit that can be used solely for one-time travel services.
Be sure to join the Qtum Telegram & Qtum Discord Channel to be eligible and to  keep up with further details on the upcoming contest.

Tell #Qtum and @travalacom how you would plan your dream weekend getaway (up to 2k USD) in the comments and you could win

Winner will be announced during the July 19th Qtum AMA 11:00am UTC (See rules below)

Telegram: https://t.co/x2hTioibtP

Discord: https://t.co/imF0FDoYDR pic.twitter.com/JCwH2jsOIJ

— Qtum (@qtum) July 12, 2021

About Qtum
Qtum is an open-sourced public blockchain platform that enables multiple virtual machines, including EVM and, soon, the Neutron ARM VM. Qtum is a green-blockchain, proof-of-stake-based, and boasts a decentralized governance protocol, allowing specific blockchain settings to be modified by using smart contracts. The security and transparency of Bitcoin’s UTXO model combined with Ethereum’s EVM and a customized PoS mechanism make Qtum the ultimate combination of the two most successful decentralized projects in existence. 
Contacts
Marketing Manager Qtum

London, United Kingdom, 12th July, 2021,
Nexo, the leading regulated institution for digital assets, has completed a strategic investment in Yield Inc, a company leading efforts to build the Yield Protocol – an Ethereum protocol that enables fixed-rate borrowing and lending by fostering the nascent DeFi bond market – as part of the company’s $10-million Series A funding round. Nexo aims to not only provide necessary funding but also to help Yield’s efforts to build DeFi native versions of traditional finance products.
Nexo’s investment represents another important milestone on its strategic agenda. As the largest, retail-oriented lender in the digital asset space, Nexo pursues optimal operating and investment returns, but of equal importance to the company is the responsibility to invest in young and prospective Blockchain projects in order to help shape the ecosystem of tomorrow and influence the future generation of crypto visionaries. 
The raised funding will further bolster Yield’s mission to make fixed-rate borrowing and lending a fundamental building block of decentralized finance. Yield recently began sharing details regarding version 2 of Yield Protocol’s core borrowing and lending platform, slated for release later this year. Nexo’s seasoned team of financial professionals and technology experts will be available to support Yield’s growth and development, and both teams will join efforts to contribute new standards of professionalism and institutionalization to the nascent DeFi industry.
“Nexo and Yield could form the perfect symbiosis in the industry’s efforts to transform digital assets into a new asset class. While Nexo is a dominant factor in the traditional crypto-backed CeFi space, new business niches could be unlocked by Yield’s zero-coupon fixed-income instruments, dynamic interest rate determination across maturities, and innovative risk management” commented Tatiana Metodieva, CFA, Head of Corporate Finance at Nexo, who led the buy-side mandate. 
“Nexo brings a unique perspective to Yield’s incredible team of investors and advisors. Nexo understands both traditional crypto-backed CeFi, but also understands what it means to be a DeFi power user. We are thrilled to have their help as we launch version 2 of the Yield Protocol and begin to build a community around fixed-rate, fixed-term borrowing and lending products,” commented Allan Niemerg, CEO of Yield, Inc. 
About Nexo
Nexo is the world’s leading regulated digital assets institution. The company’s mission is to maximize the value and utility of cryptocurrencies by offering tax-efficient Instant Crypto Credit Lines™, a high-yield Earn on Crypto & Fiat suite, an instant Exchange service, and sophisticated trading and OTC capabilities, while providing the top-tier custodial insurance and military-grade security of the Nexo Wallet. Nexo has processed $30+ billion for 1,500,000+ users across more than 200 jurisdictions.
Official website: https://nexo.io
About Yield
Yield is on a mission to make fixed-rate borrowing and lending a fundamental building block of decentralized finance. Yield was the first to launch fixed-rate, fixed-term borrowing and lending on Ethereum, and has pushed forward the state of the art in on-chain financial products and automated market makers. Founded in 2020, Yield is a global, remote-first team committed to building decentralized protocols that empower users to control their financial future.  
Official website: https://yield.is
Contacts
Nexo PR