Zug, Switzerland, 20th July, 2021,
Concordium has today unveiled an ambitious, industry-leading partnership programme for global developers as part of its ongoing commitment to build a credible, trusted and sustainable blockchain industry.
The programme offers developers a chance to work alongside some of the most respected names in the blockchain industry and help release the full potential of blockchain and cryptocurrency technology.  
Concordium’s platform offers access to a safe, transparent, regulatable and sustainable blockchain and cryptocurrency, marking the end of an era of anonymity and distrust that has undermined the development of the industry.
The Concordium platform differs from other industry participants by offering previously unseen guarantees of governance and transparency, without compromising privacy. 
Users are identifiable and the provenance of every transaction is trackable, creating trust for users and meeting the needs of global regulators. At the same time, identities can be made available, but only if necessary
The Swiss-based company made its Mainnet debut in June, clearing the way for any developer or user to access the Concordium platform and – from today – start receiving financial support to work alongside the company in its mission to revolutionise the industry.   
The newly-announced Concordium Free & Open Grants Programme offers developers up to USD20,000 for initial grants and USD75,000 for follow-up grants. 
“We are not just a company, we are part of a community,” said Lone Fønss Schrøder, Concordium’s chief executive. “We know we can’t help this industry maximise its potential alone. That’s why we are supporting developers and asking them to join us.” 
Developers will be able to work alongside members of Concordium’s Executive and Steering Committee, which includes some of the most respected names in the industry, such as ETH Zurich Prof. Ueli Mahrer and Prof. Hans Gersbach, Dr. Torben Pedersen Concordium’s CTO and Father of the Pedersen Commitment, and Michael Jackson former Skype COO and Mangrove Capital Partner. 
“This is a two way street,” said Torben Pryds Pedersen, Concordium’s CTO. “All good science is collaborative. As an open and decentralized project, Concordium’s vision is grounded in reciprocity and giving back to developers and the science community. First, we created the Concordium Blockchain Research Center in Aarhus, then we announced the DevX Initiative and now, with this grants programme, we will support and strengthen the science and development behind blockchain and technology in general.”
Concordium believes credible participants in the blockchain industry must be responsible for driving change and building trust in the technology. 
“The need is urgent,” said Lone Fønss Schrøder. “Failure to act risks delaying the broader adoption of the technology and will prevent businesses and consumers from benefiting from the potential blockchain and cryptocurrency offers.”
Concordium focuses on the requirements of developers and companies, taking into account future regulatory rules and doing so sustainably solves the problems that have so far prevented the widespread use of blockchain technology.
Concordium was founded by a non-profit Swiss foundation and is backed by a select group of respected academics and industry veterans. From its birth in 2018, it has combined the development of its own blockchain and cryptocurrency with a desire to help redefine the values upon which the industry has been associated.
The company’s combination of cutting-edge technology and commitment to a global rules-based system has attracted the interest of investors. Earlier this year, it successfully raised over USD 41m from private and strategic sales, valuing the company at USD4.45bn. 
The Concordium Free & Open Grants Programme process is open to any developer or technology project eager to contribute to the Concordium and/or Rustlang ecosystems.
Applicants can find a list of areas in the Concordium Technology Stack that demand particular development here. The application is open to any developer or technology project, if you are interested you can apply here.  
Grants are tracked transparently on GitHub and disbursed in Euros, US Dollars, or GTU, Concordium’s cryptocurrency.  
About Concordium
Concordium is a Public and Sustainable Proof-of-Stake-blockchain with a unique Identity layer at the protocol level. Concordium differs from other participants by offering previously unseen guarantees of transparency, and regulation without compromising privacy by introducing built-in identity management at the protocol level and zero-knowledge proofs, which are used to replace anonymity with perfect privacy.  
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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.
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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/. 
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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.
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