Hong Kong Blockchain Ecosystem Feb 2020 - New Members

Announcing our "Hong Kong Blockchain Ecosystem" 2020 Feb edition!

Hong Kong Blockchain Ecosystem: What is it?

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Here are the key additions to our ecosystem!

Technology

Hyperledger

Hyperledger is an open source community focused on developing a suite of stable frameworks, tools and libraries for enterprise-grade blockchain deployments. It is a global collaboration, hosted by The Linux Foundation, and includes leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and Technology. Similar to The Linux Foundation, Hyperledger has a modular approach to hosting projects. The Hyperledger greenhouse hosts developing business blockchain projects from Hyperledger Labs (seed) to stable code ready for production (fruition). All are invited to contribute to the greenhouse; collectively advancing industry goals of distributed ledger and smart contracts.
Learn more about Hyperledger https://www.hyperledger.org/

STOGlobalX

STO Global-X (STGX) is a Singapore-based technology company that offers an institutional-grade, white-label marketplace solution for broker dealers, licensed institutions and regulated marketing operators. STGX offers end-to-end asset tokenization and life cycle management in a secure and compliant manner, including asset tokenization, initial offering, post-offering management, secondary trading and on-going asset management modules. STGX platform can tokenize a wide spectrum of asset types, including fixed assets, real estate, commodities, derivatives, equities, debts, cashflows and investment funds, etc. 
Please visit - https://www.stoglobalx.com/

DFINI

DFINI is a solution provider focused on the decentralized finance sector. We develop decentralized finance solutions that allow established institutions to adopt distributed ledger technology, and provide open finance platforms that empower individuals around the world to engage with new and restructured financial systems. 
Please visit - https://dfini.com/

Mars Chain

Mars Chain is the product of a well-composed team of seasoned developers and entrepreneurs with vast experience in the blockchain space and the global banking industry. Its businesses include stablecoin, digital currency exchange, mining, media, digital asset management and more.
Website: https://marsblockchain.com/en/

BURSTPAY

BURSTPAY was founded in 2018, while BURST was still in its infancy. With BURSTPAY, the company is building an open-source platform to power the next applications of Blockchain DAPP & Marketplace. The BURSTPAY secure BURST wallet is giving consumers a powerful toolkit for getting started right with BURST payments, and the BURST-SPOTS/ BURSTCARD/ BURSTHub gives BURST users a fast way to load BURSTPAY and spend anytime, anywhere BURSTPAY is accepted.
Website: https://burstpay.io/

trustME

trustME was founded in early 2018 as a technology company with an avowed mission to establish itself to be the technology innovator in Hong Kong. Since then, trustME has made a significant impact in the technology scene in Hong Kong, notably in the Fintech areas where we excel the innovation with blockchain, AI and data-driven financial analytics.  trustME has launched a business blockchain platform “trustME” in 2018, the first of its kind in Hong Kong to bring transformative and distributive innovation across industries. The company's expertise in blockchain permitted them to provide a unique blockchain solution to different industries and offer unparalleled and expert blockchain consulting services to diverse industries.

Website: www.trustmechain.com

Blockchain Solutions Limited

Government/Academic

iHashing Technology Co. Ltd.

Enlighten people with blockchain values - Founded in 2017, and supported by Cyberport HK, iHashing specializes in the development and application of artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, cloud development, and digital marketing. The company is committed to providing education, adoption, and application of blockchain technology for mCommerce with vast operations in Asia, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Taiwan. The scope of services includes solution and development of IT applications, infrastructural services, Blockchain Software development, Smart Contract Audit, Cryptocurrency trading support, software technology consultation and digital advertisement.
Website: https://ihashing.hk/

Community

STO Lab

STO Lab is a global business alliance network and eco-system for sourcing and distributing high-quality STO projects in international markets. The consortium consists of corporate members from different industries, key eco-system enablers and service providers along the value chain, and financial institutions and accredited investors. Together with its consortium members, STO Lab aims to derive a multi-country fully compliant ways and best practices in asset tokenization process.  
Please visit - http://thestolab.com/ 

Bitwork

Bitwork is a blockchain community-based company that assists all blockchain companies in the community to develop their unknown market value. Through a Business-to-Business-to-Customer (B2B2C) complete ecosystem model, Bitwork aims to create a channel for the reciprocal transaction of products or services.
Website: https://bitwork.asia/index.html?l=en

Crypto Trading/Investment

TideBit

TideBit is a leading crypto asset exchange supporting fiat currency based in Hong Kong. Founded in February 2017, TideBit is the only digital asset exchange in Hong Kong that accept HKD, USD and EUR deposits and withdrawals. Trusted by millions of users from all over the world which allows TideBit to become one of the largest digital asset exchanges in Asia.
Website:https://www.tidebit.com/

AAX

AAX is the world’s first digital asset exchange to be powered by LSEG Technology. Offering OTC, Spot, and Futures trading, quoting more than 70 cryptocurrency pairs and listing 5 perpetual futures contracts for Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, XRP, and EOS, which can be traded with up to 100x leverage, AAX provides a secure, deeply liquid, ultra-low latency and fully compliant trading platform.
Website: https://www.aax.com/

Digital Asset

OSL

As the member of BC Group (Stock code: 863 HK), OSL is Asia's leading digital asset platform providing SaaS, brokerage, custody and exchange services.
Website: https://osl.com/en/home

iSunOne

iSunOne is a global digital asset management platform, with AUM exceeding 2 billion USD as of December 2019. Providing better banking on blockchain, iSunOne integrates a global crypto debit card, built-in exchange, collateral loan and staking service for seamless one-stop experience. iSunOne users enjoy the safety and privacy to send each other secret messages and photos, as well as simultaneous gifting or instant paying with BTC, ETH, USDT, XTP and 20+ other assets.
Website:https://isun.one/

HEX Trust

Hex Trust is the Asian leader in enterprise-grade custody for digital assets. Led by innovators from the institutional financial services space, Hex Trust has built a proprietary platform that delivers a modern custody solution for financial institutions, asset managers, and corporations to safely and efficiently operate in the blockchain ecosystem. ZeroKey(TM), a proprietary technology, enables seamless transacting and fast access to assets stored on multiple blockchains, while maintaining the highest levels of security of cold storage solutions. As a registered Trust Company under the Hong Kong Trust Ordinance and holding a Trust or Company Service Provider (TCSP) license under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance, Hex Trust offers a truly end-to-end digital asset servicing solution.
Visit www.hextrust.com to learn more.

Liquefy

Liquefy is a venture-backed and award-winning FinTech platform which enables the issuance of tokenized securities backed by real assets, to bring in a new world of accessible investments. Liquefy aspires to be the next-generation wealth manager, leveraging blockchain technology to offer a full suite of financial products.
Website: https://www.liquefy.com/

Swiss Capital GEM

"Swiss Capital GEM - world’s first gold standard cryptocurrency & crypto-central bank in multibillions scale. GEM as a proprietary gold standard and capital backed cryptocurrency - is the divine ultimate adoption of blockchain technology into the global currency market and crypto central banking." Cited by Swiss Capital Group Chairman The Honorable Gary Sum.
Website: https://www.scgem.digital/

Securosys

Securosys SA is a technology company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Securosys secures data and communications, which the products are developed and manufactured in Switzerland and with vested European partners using a trusted supply chain. There are no backdoors. The flagship product of Securosys is the Primus Hardware Security Module used to protect the Swiss banking system SIC, blockchain and crypto assets solutions, and Public Key Infrastructure Systems.
Website: https://www.securosys.com/en/

GlobalSTOX

GlobalSTOX Limited (GSL) is a rising star fintech company incorporated in Hong Kong. It has been striving to innovate the financial market infrastructures with the cutting-edge technologies, including the Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT) technology. GSL has a strong team including Mr. Alec Tsui, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. It currently operates a virtual assets trading platform named APX.HK, fully compliant with the rules and regulations in Hong Kong.
Website: https://globalstox.io/

Finance

BMI-Coinstreet Digital (BC Digital)

BMI Coinstreet Digital Limited (“BC Digital”) is a BMI Group’s company, a joint venture between BM Intelligence (“BMI”) and Coinstreet Partners.  By combining extensive professional experience and industry best practices from traditional capital market and the innovative FinTech eco-system and distributed ledger technology, BC Digital is driving the forefront of the fintech industry by providing professional, fully compliant, one-stop, end-to-end asset tokenization and STO advisory service and solutions.  
Please visit - http://bcdigital.io/

MoneySQ

MoneySQ, a revolutionary company that disrupted the financial market, made history in 2017 by becoming the first crowdfunding and online lending platform in Hong Kong. Since then we made further business evolution by establishing a Smart Lending Platform utilizing OpenAPI integration with financial system providers allowing access to financial data with sophisticated business intelligence tools to extract, consolidate, transform and visualize key financial performance indicators.  Our Smart Lending Platform creates a financial ecosystem that connects all players with the like of SMEs, up and downstream business partners, buyers, sellers, logistics companies, financial institutions and credit report agencies.  

Website: www.moneysq.com

Swiss Capital Group

Swiss Capital Group is world’s leading Royal and Swiss heritage multifamily office, sovereign wealth investment bank, Princely advisory to His Excellencies and humanitarian programs. Swiss Capital Group is poised to be world’s top crypto investment bank, liquidity provider and technology innovator, enabler, incubator with group’s best practice, best-of-breed fintech and proprietary resources, nurturing Swiss Capital GEM aiming to contribute 20% share of global crypto market capitalisation, circulating cryptomoney supply, liquidity provision and transaction turnover - an aggregate in excess of $2 Trillion before 2025.
Website: http:/www.swisscapitalbank.net   

RegTech

Blockpass

Blockpass offers digital identity verification for businesses that participate in regulated industries, including crypto wallets and exchanges, virtual banks, traditional financial institutions and gaming.
Website: https://www.blockpass.org/

Proptech

smartME

smartME is a technology company with an ambition to anchor itself to deliver technology transformation to create an innovative and sustainable platform driven by blockchain technology. The company's prime focus is to provide an easy and yet secure and reliable method to manage property listing, selling and renting in Hong Kong. smartME was created with one simple aim, to reinvent the real estate from an archaic process and to use a novel approach to reshape the real estate industry that will not only streamline the existing large manual process but also provide a more secured, cost savings and transparent process based on the advanced technology.

Website: www.smartme.com.hk

RealKey

RealKey automates processing and underwriting of mortgage through a web-based mortgage process facilitator that centralizes and simplifies both documentation collection and review to reduce touches (back and forth) with underwriting by getting documents and data direct from the source through APIs and OCR. RealKey stores all data and documents securely and centrally for all parties to access. A review of data is automated through algorithms coupled with machine learning to improve accuracy over time.
Website: https://www.realkey.com/

Advisory

Standard Kepler

Standard Kepler is Asia's leading blockchain financial services provider, offering market changing research insights, in addition to holistic advisory, brokerage, and custodian services.  Headquartered in Hong Kong, Standard Kepler’s management team previously served in JP Morgan, Macquarie Capital, State Street, and KPMG.
Website: https://www.standardkepler.com/en/

GIANTHOUSE

GIANTHOUSE was started by the spirit of turning imaginations into reality. It is an IT production house specialized in the development of web and mobile applications, as well as providing customized IT and blockchain solutions. GIANTHOUSE is venture-backed and its clienteles range from large corporates to early-stage startups.
Website: https://www.gianthouse.io/