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Moonstake

Ejara is an app for Africa and its diasporas to access various investment offers fractional shares, commodities, cryptocurrency, and more.

Moonstake is to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets.

<div>Based in Singapore, Moonstake offers a DeFi wallet that enables users to store, transact, and stake cryptocurrencies. Offered as both a web and mobile wallet, Moonstake supports over 2,000 cryptocurrencies (as of November 2022) and offers staking services that leverage its own validator nodes as well as other nodes around the world. This enables users to earn yields on their crypto assets. The company also provides enterprises with a team to support the development and maintenance of the staking pool nodes. As of November 2022, Moonstake supported staking on 17 blockchains with a total locked value (TVL) of USD 183 million. </div>

Disrupting the traditional financial system using blockchain

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

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 Based in Singapore, Moonstake offers a DeFi wallet that enables users to store, transact, and stake cryptocurrencies. Offered as both a web and mobile wallet, Moonstake supports over 2,000 cryptocurrencies (as of November 2022) and offers staking services that leverage its own validator nodes as well as other nodes around the world. This enables users to earn yields on their crypto assets. The company also provides enterprises with a team to support the development and maintenance of the staking pool nodes. As of November 2022, Moonstake supported staking on 17 blockchains with a total locked value (TVL) of USD 183 million. 
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships 
 
 
 
 
 Moonstake has partnered with over 25 blockchain companies including Emurgov (developer of the Astar Network blockchain) and the TRON Network. In November 2022, the company partnered with SSV Network, an Ethereum staking dApp infrastructure provider, to integrate SSV's architecture to support its existing validator infrastructure and promote its ecosystems.
 
 
 
 
 Funding and financials 
 
 
 
 In November 2022, Moonstake 
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 received an undisclosed amount
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 in a staking pool integration grant from SSV Network to integrate Ethereum staking features on the Moonstake Wallet.
 
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 MakerDAO is a DAO (governed through the MKR token) that manages the Maker Protocol.&nbsp;
 
 
 Developed on the Ethereum blockchain, the Maker Protocol allows users to place their funds (through cryptocurrency) as collateral in exchange for its stablecoin DAI, which is pegged to the USD. DAI can be used like any other cryptocurrency and even as savings since holders of DAI are entitled to a return based on the DAI Savings Rate (DSR). The DSR is determined by members of the DAO using a mix of public and proprietary market data. In October 2022, MakerDAO 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/14067">
 passed a proposal
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 to separate its DAO into multiple self-sustaining units called MetaDAOs. These DAOs will be separate from Maker&rsquo;s broader governance system and will have their own community and token.
 
 
 MakerDAO offers access to investing and borrowing DAI through the Oasis app, developed by some of the creators of Maker Protocol. In addition, the Maker Protocol is available for developers of DeFi apps, who can build apps to facilitate earning, investing, and borrowing DAI. As of December 2021, the Maker Protocol integrated with over 400 applications, ranging from payments systems to gaming platforms. MakerDAO generates revenue through stability fees (akin to interest payment on borrowed DAI) and liquidation fees, which is an additional charge that occurs when the value of the submitted collateral falls below a set liquidation amount. 
 
 
 In April 2022, MakerDAO announced that it was bridging to StarkNet, a reportedly cheaper and faster zero-knowledge (ZK) overlay chain built by StarkWare. Along with its expansion on Ethereum, the DAO plans to move toward a multi-chain offering with this rebuild. It plans to roll-out this offering in 4 phases, beginning with a simple bridge between the main blockchain and StarkNet&rsquo;s Layer 2. &nbsp;
 
 
 In February 2023, the company 
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 launched a new lending platform
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 named Spark Protocol, to enable users to borrow, lend, and stake DAI, the protocol&rsquo;s stablecoin. The platform, which is a fork of Aave's version 3 (v3), will be built by Phoenix Labs, a research and development company formed by the DAO. Additionally, the company also announced deployment of etherDAI, a liquid staking derivative for Ethereum that will be pegged to the value of ETH. Furthermore, in March, MakerDAO went on to
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 approve a number of new proposals 
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 that make changes to both its governance structure and the investment of its treasury. These changes divide the DAO&rsquo;s current structure into smaller self-governed and self-sustained units named SubDAOs, which will also have their own tokens in the MakerDAO ecosystem. Moreover, the proposal also planned to increase the protocol&rsquo;s revenues by investing a part of its reserves (worth USD 7 billion) into real-world assets and money-market funds. 
 
 
 Funding and financials 
 
 
 As of April 2022, MakerDAO had around USD 13.7 billion in total value locked (TVL).The company&rsquo;s most recent funding round was in April 2020 for an undisclosed sum. Previously, the company raised USD 27.5 million through the sale of its MKR token to Dragonfly Partners and Paragon to expand its operations to Asia. 
 
 
 
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 Founded by former executives of Qualcomm, Solana Labs is the developer of the Solana blockchain, which uses the native cryptocurrency SOL. The company enables developers to create decentralized applications in its blockchain and is capable of carrying out 50,000 transactions per second (TPS) with a theoretical upper limit of 710,000 TPS for the architecture. As of December 2021, the blockchain averaged around 2,500 TPS. This is in contrast to Ethereum’s average of between 13 to 15 TPS. In addition to transaction speed, Solana also has other advantages such as lower transaction fees and improved scalability, given the differences in its consensus mechanism and underlying architecture.
 
 
 As of December 2021, more than 400 projects were created using Solana, ranging across use cases such as DeFi, NFTs, and gaming.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In June 2022, Solana partnered with Edgevana, an edge colocation services provider, to deploy 500 bare metal servers in 32 of Edgevana's data center and colocation facilities across the globe. This enables validators to leverage Edgevana's product offering to increase the speed of setting up. 
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 Total value locked (TVL) in DeFi projects across the Solana blockchain amounted to USD 6.4 billion as of April 2022. The company raised USD 314 million through an initial coin offering (ICO) of SOL. The ICO was co-led by Polychain Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. The funding was to be used to create a venture investing arm, a trading desk, and support the development of new applications in its blockchain.
 
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Solana

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 Swiss-based Eidoo is a developer of a wallet that supports cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, along with tokens such as DAI, MKR, AAVE, and UNI, among others. In addition, Eidoo provides a DeFi marketplace that integrates with its wallet, allowing users to trade any tokens that they hold. Eidoo also offers a debit card that allows the conversion of digital assets into fiat currencies, such as the GBP and EURO, and spending or even withdrawing cash from ATMs.
 
 
 Eidoo began with the proprietary token EDO, which it also used to raise USD 27.9 million in an initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017. The token was then upgraded following its merger with blockchain oracle provider Provable Things to establish pNetwork, the infrastructure that facilitates cross-chain interactions between multiple decentralized apps, governed by the token PNT. To obtain an Eidoo debit card, users are required to stake PNT ranging from 20 to 200,000 for various service tiers.
 
 
 Eidoo had several applications such as virtual account numbers to deposit money and obtain a tokenized representation of their deposit as well as features to buy, hold, and trade NFTs in the roadmap as of December 2021.
 
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Eidoo

Synthetix is a DAO (governed by holders of its native token SNX) that offers a platform on which users can trade and vote on the creation of on-chain synthetic assets, which are derivatives based on real-world assets. These synthetic assets enable traders to capture the price movements of assets such as cryptocurrencies, fiat currencies, stocks, and commodities, among others, with zero slippage. The protocol allows users to stake SNX as collateral for the debt pool and earn weekly rewards. As of April 2022, Synthetix had USD 642 million in total value locked (TVL).Additionally, Synthetix also offers the opportunity for developers to build on top of the platform to tap into its liquidity as well as develop decentralized perpetual futures, options markets, deal coordination markets, and more. As of December 2021, the protocol served large DeFi platforms including 1inch, Curve Finance, Yearn Finance, and Paraswap.In February 2023, Synthetix <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16609?industryIds=64">deployed version 3 (v3) of its platform </a>on the Ethereum mainnet. V3 reportedly offers more efficient architecture that enables developers to create products that offer a liquid market for any financial derivative, as well as more complex decentralized applications. Additionally, the solution also offers staking and differentiated debt pools, to enable stakers to earn fees from supplying collateral to specific asset pools. The company went on to deploy its protocol on Base, an Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain developed by Coinbase, in April 2024. Moreover, the company announced plans to launch a new perpetual futures exchange named Infinex in the following months. Funding and financialsIn March 2023, Synthetix <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17267">received an investment of USD 20 million </a>from DWF Labs, a Web3 venture capital company. Synthetix plans to use this investment to drive volume for its protocol across both centralized and decentralized exchanges and invest in product development.

Synthetix

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 Compound is an open-source lending protocol built on Ethereum that allows developers to build DeFi applications for functions such as deposits and lending. Compound offers adjusted money market interest rates based on asset-specific supply and demand and supports a number of Ethereum-based assets for users to take collateralized loans and lock-up assets without borrowing. Locked assets are automatically liquidated if an independent oracle determines that the price has dropped too low. Additionally, since assets are stored in a shared pool, even users with liquidated collateral can claim tokens if they are able to repay the general pool. Compound also 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13038">
 offers borrowing services
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 for institutional clients that allow them to borrow USD or USDC at a fixed annual percentage rate of 6% using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ether as collateral, with a loan-to-value of 90%.
 
 
 
 
 As of April 2022, Compound has a total value locked (TVL) of USD 2.1 billion. The protocol is governed by its native-token COMP, which along with a variety of other digital assets that are a part of the Compound ecosystem, are supported by Coinbase Custody, a crypto asset custodian. In August 2022, Compound launched a version of its protocol named “Compound III” which features a single borrowable asset. Users can supply collateral that can never be withdrawn by other users (except during liquidation) and borrow USDC.
 
 
 
 
 In May 2022, Compound
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/10267">
 received a B- credit rating from S&P Global Ratings
 </a>
 on its enterprise credit facility which offers 4% annually on deposits of the stablecoin USDC. Notably, Compound claims that this is the first time an "institutional DeFi" product has been scored by a major credit rating agency.
 
 
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 
 
 Compound’s last funding round was in November 2019 where it raised USD 25 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z crypto fund to help the company further decentralize the protocol by enabling crypto exchanges and custodians such as Coinbase to maintain the protocol going forward.
 
 
 
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