2021 was a huge year for the cryptocurrency market, with huge strides in growth and adoption of digital assets, NFTs, and blockchain worldwide. It was also an incredible year for Moonstake as we rose the top rankings of global staking providers, reaching a total staking assets of $1.8 billion thanks to the support of our users and partners worldwide. As we begin the new year 2022, Moonstake as well as our strategic coin partners have many exciting news and programs in store for you as our platforms scale and evolve. To welcome our user community into the exciting new year, we’re creating a series of articles in collaboration with our strategic partner on what you need to know about our partner coins in the year 2022, this time with Polkadot.

As of January 2020, Moonstake has been supporting DOT staking via strategic partnership with RockX, one of Polkadot’s leading node operators. Since then, Moonstake has hosted a number of campaigns that promote awareness of the Polkadot ecosystem as well as adoption of DOT staking to global users, including webinars and giveaways. Later, Moonstake also partnered with Plasm, now known as Astar Network, a leading DApps hub on Polkadot, to expand support for the ecosystem with other parachains.

In 2021, Polkadot accomplished a number of major development milestones with the rollout of Parachains, Slot Auctions, and Crowdloans across 2 Relay-chain networks: Kusama coming live early in the year and Polkadot following up in December, both of which saw numerous successful parachain launches following their establishments. Additionally, the number of nominator accounts the network can support has tripled from 6,000 at the end of 2020 to 22,000 at its peak. In terms of organized events, Polkadot also managed to participate in over 380 meetups and conferences across the globe, both online and offline,in its effort to cultivate the global Polkadot community against the turbulence caused by the pandemic. Most notably, Polkadot received support and endorsement from the largest telecom company in Europe, Deutsche Telekom, who is currently using its infrastructure to participate in the Polkadot public blockchain network as a validator.

For 2022, Polkadot is focusing on expanding the number of Parachains on their network, with the ultimate goal being 100 parachain slots total. The project is also strongly continuing to push its efforts in building a robust development community for the ecosystem through even more events, hackathons, and initiatives. Not only will this help propel the ecosystem to greater heights in terms of technical achievements and usability, it is also how Polkadot  will grow its user base and attract the interests of investors looking for high-value ecosystems.

Moonstake is proud to be strategic partners of Astar to expand the Polkadot ecosystem.We will continue to maintain strong support for the ever growing and developing Polkadot ecosystem and hope to bring even more great value to DOT and crypto users worldwide in 2022 to help accelerate adoption of the Polkadot and Moonstake ecosystems together.

About Moonstake

As a world-leading staking service provider, Moonstake develops and operates decentralized wallet services for enterprises and end users.

Our full-scale staking business started in August 2020. With the support of users all over the world, our total staking assets has risen to 1.8 billion dollars. In June 2021, we ranked third among 15,000 staking providers globally.

So far, we have expanded our business and ecosystem through about 30 strategic partnerships, including major blockchains such as Emurgo which is a constituent organization of Cardano, TRON, and NEO. In May 2021, we became a wholly owned subsidiary of the listed company “OIO Holdings Limited” on the Singapore Stock Exchange and we are working to further expand Moonstake’s business and improve our credibility.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About Polkadot

Polkadot will enable a completely decentralized web where users are in control.

Polkadot is built to connect private and consortium chains, public and permissionless networks, oracles, and future technologies that are yet to be created. Polkadot facilitates an internet where independent blockchains can exchange information and transactions in a trustless way via the Polkadot relay chain.

Polkadot makes it easier than ever to create and connect decentralized applications, services, and institutions. By empowering innovators to build better solutions, we seek to free society from its reliance on a broken web where its large institutions can’t violate our trust.

https://polkadot.network/ 

About Astar

Astar Network is the #1 Smart Contract Hub for WASM + EVM on Polkadot. Since winning its Parachain auction in January 2022, Astar Network has become the top Parachain in the Polkadot ecosystem in terms of Total Value Locked and most Ethereum assets transferred over. Astar Network is the leading smart contract hub that connects the Polkadot ecosystem to Ethereum, Cosmos, and all major layer 1 blockchains. Astar Network supports dApps using multiple virtual machines—namely WASM and EVM—and offers the best technology solutions and financial incentives via its Build2Earn and Astar Incubation Program for Web3 developers to build on top of a secure, scalable and interoperable blockchain.

https://astar.network/ 

2021 was a huge year for the cryptocurrency market, with huge strides in growth and adoption of digital assets, NFTs, and blockchain worldwide. It was also an incredible year for Moonstake as we rose the the top rankings of global staking providers, reaching a total staking assets of $1.8 billion thanks to the support of our users and partners worldwide. As we begin the new year 2022, Moonstake as well as our strategic coin partners have many exciting news and programs in store for you as our platforms scale and evolve. To welcome our user community into the exciting new year, we’re creating a series of articles on what you need to know about our partner coins in the year 2022, this time with Shiden.

Shiden is the latest supported coin by Moonstake via strategic partnership with Astar Network, the sister network whose code base is used to build Shiden. Since November 2021, we support both native staking of SDN with Moonstake staking pool as well as staking with the Shiden DApp store with 25+ innovative applications, bringing users a robust variety of opportunities for global crypto users to earn with Shiden Network with the best user experience. Moonstake is proud to be amongst the world’s first group of validators for Shiden Network.

Shiden Network was launched in August 2021 as a sister network to Astar Network, functioning as a smart contract layer to enable advanced blockchain applications like DeFi, NFTs and more. Since launch, Shiden has been hosting a Builders Program with Astar to incentivize teams to develop great applications on the network. The team also organized an Ambassador Program to promote awareness and adoption of the network, as well as launching the Shiden DApp Store which currently has 25+ staking DApps listed, including Moonstake. 

In 2022, Shiden as the canary network of Astar will be focusing on developing and expanding its ecosystem in the fields of cross-chain token swapping, DApp staking, EVM tooling, and general network functionality, governance, and performance. On top of this, the network is also looking to incubate and promote the development of breakthrough applications and NFT projects, especially through its Astar & Shiden Builders Grant Program.

Moonstake is proud to be strategic partners of Shideen Network. We will continue to maintain strong support for the ever growing and developing Shiden ecosystem and hope to bring even more great value to SDN and crypto users worldwide in 2022 to help accelerate adoption of the Shiden and Moonstake ecosystems together.

About Moonstake

As a world-leading staking service provider, Moonstake develops and operates decentralized wallet services for enterprises and end users.

Our full-scale staking business started in August 2020. With the support of users all over the world, our total staking assets has risen to 1.8 billion dollars. In June 2021, we ranked third among 15,000 staking providers globally.

So far, we have expanded our business and ecosystem through about 30 strategic partnerships, including major blockchains such as Emurgo which is a constituent organization of Cardano, TRON, and NEO. In May 2021, we became a wholly owned subsidiary of the listed company “OIO Holdings Limited” on the Singapore Stock Exchange and we are working to further expand Moonstake’s business and improve our credibility.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About Shiden

Building the premier multi-chain smart contract platform on Kusama Network. Shiden Network is a multi-chain decentralized application layer on Kusama Network. Kusama Relaychain does not support smart contract functionality by design. Kusama Network needs a smart contract layer. This is where Shiden Network comes in. Shiden supports Ethereum Virtual Machine, WebAssembly, and Layer2 solutions from day one. The platform supports various applications like DeFi, NFTs, and more.

https://shiden.astar.network/ 

About Astar

Astar Network is a dApps hub on Polkadot that supports Ethereum and layer 2 solutions like ZK Rollups. Plasm aims to be a multi-chain smart contract platform that will support multiple blockchains and virtual machines like EVM and WASM.

https://astar.network/

2021 was a major year for the cryptocurrency market, with huge strides in growth and adoption of digital assets, NFTs, and blockchain worldwide. It was also an incredible year for Moonstake as we rose the the top rankings of global staking providers, reaching a total staking assets of $1.8 billion thanks to the support of our users and partners worldwide. As we begin the new year 2022, Moonstake as well as our strategic coin partners have many exciting news and programs in store for you as our platforms scale and evolve. To welcome our user community into the exciting new year, we’re creating a series of articles on what you need to know about our partner coins in the year 2022, this time with QURAS.

As of January 2021, Moonstake has been supporting XQC staking via strategic partnership with QURAS since April 2020. Since then, Moonstake has hosted a number of campaigns that promote awareness of the QURAS ecosystem as well as adoption of XOC staking to global users. 

2021 was the year where XQC fully migrated to its own QURAS MainNet, gaining independence from the ERC20 protocol of Ethereum. The development team also focused heavily on privacy, security, convenience, and performance, releasing a web extension as well as numerous updates to its blockchain protocol and wallets, most notably enhancing the user experience of their Anonymous/Stealth transaction feature that lets users make fully anonymized transactions with others on the QURAS chain.

In 2022, QURAS is working to enhance the user experience of its services by focusing on upgrading their web and mobile wallets to allow for faster, more convenient, and more secure transactions. The project identifies user experience as one of the major entry barriers to the blockchain and cryptocurrency world and is fully committed to deliver an optimal experience for global users.

Moonstake is proud to be strategic partners of QURAS. We will continue to maintain strong support for the ever growing and developing QURAS ecosystem and hope to bring even more great value to XQC and crypto users worldwide in 2022 to help accelerate adoption of the QURAS and Moonstake ecosystems together.

About Moonstake

Moonstake is the world’s leading staking service provider that develops and operates decentralized wallet services for businesses and individuals.

Since its launch in April 2020, Moonstake has partnered with 28 leading platform providers, including Cardano’s constituent Emurgo, developer of the Polkadot-connected blockchain Astar Network Stake Technologies, and the TRON Network with over 50 million users. In May 2021, Moonstake further enhanced its corporate credibility by becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of OIO Holdings Limited, a company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

Using blockchain technology, Moonstake aims to progress toward a world where anyone can easily make use of highly secure and reliable digital asset management tools.

About Moonstake’s staking business

For the staking industry, which has grown into a 630-billion dollar market as of September 2021, Moonstake provides a decentralized staking service that does not require user deposits, and supports nodes around the world in addition to its own validator nodes. Moonstake currently supports the staking of 16 blockchains. With a total staking assets of 1.8 billion USD and a global user base, the company ranked third out of more than 10,000 providers worldwide in June of the same year.

https://www.moonstake.io/  

About QURAS

QURAS is a Secret Contract platform, first of its kind. Built on our own Blockchain, QURAS coin will provide absolute privacy protection and bring numerous benefits to IoT to Big Data. We are also developing Daaps that could allow precise locating of a device or a person and support the healthy living through the walking app which gives rewards if a person makes a certain number of steps each day. 

https://quras.io/ 

2021 was a huge year for the cryptocurrency market, with huge strides in growth and adoption of digital assets, NFTs, and blockchain worldwide. It was also an incredible year for Moonstake as we rose the the top rankings of global staking providers, reaching a total staking assets of $1.8 billion thanks to the support of our users and partners worldwide. As we begin the new year 2022, Moonstake as well as our strategic coin partners have many exciting news and programs in store for you as our platforms scale and evolve. To welcome our user community into the exciting new year, we’re creating a series of articles on what you need to know about our partner coins in the year 2022, this time with Harmony.

Since August 2020, Moonstake has been supporting ONE staking as both a staking Validator and Delegator via strategic partnership with the development team behind Harmony blockchain. Since then, Moonstake has hosted a number of campaigns that promote awareness of the Harmony ecosystem as well as adoption of ONE staking to global users. Moonstake’s partner Binarystar, which runs Japan’s biggest Blockchain Business Hub in Tokyo, also takes part in this partnership to support these marketing activities by hosting events and overseeing Harmony’s community development in Japan.

2021 was a year of tremendous growth for Harmony blockchain, with strong focus on adoption, interoperability & decentralization. The Harmony team successfully accelerated adoption for the next 1 million users through workshops for developers, hackathons & grants. Harmony’s own blockchain explorer and cross-chain NFT bridge were launched in June and November respectively. The network achieved a variety of key successful ecosystem growth metrics such as 227 DApps, over 400 million assets locked across cross-chain bridges, and 7,483 artists with $1.07 million in NFT sales. Harmony has also opened numerous regional DAOs including Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Korean, French, German, Indonesian & Chinese speaking communities. 

In 2022, the focus for Harmony is to further drive user adoption of the network by increasing accessibility to users across all blockchains and incentives to build on Harmony via grant programs for developers. The blockchain is also focusing on the highly demanded markets of NFTs and Metaverse via the Player ONE initiative focusing on accelerating the growth of gaming, social & work applications and use cases. Their ambitious goal is to make Harmony become the unifying Web3 platform building for billions of users by 2026.

Moonstake is proud to be strategic partners of Harmony. We will continue to maintain strong support for the ever growing and developing Harmony ecosystem and hope to bring even more great value to ONE and crypto users worldwide in 2022 to help accelerate adoption of the Harmony and Moonstake ecosystems together.

About Moonstake

Moonstake is the world’s leading staking service provider that develops and operates decentralized wallet services for businesses and individuals.

Since its launch in April 2020, Moonstake has partnered with 28 leading platform providers, including Cardano’s constituent Emurgo, developer of the Polkadot-connected blockchain Astar Network Stake Technologies, and the TRON Network with over 50 million users. In May 2021, Moonstake further enhanced its corporate credibility by becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of OIO Holdings Limited, a company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

Using blockchain technology, Moonstake aims to progress toward a world where anyone can easily make use of highly secure and reliable digital asset management tools.

About Moonstake’s staking business

For the staking industry, which has grown into a 630-billion dollar market as of September 2021, Moonstake provides a decentralized staking service that does not require user deposits, and supports nodes around the world in addition to its own validator nodes. Moonstake currently supports the staking of 16 blockchains. With a total staking assets of 1.8 billion USD and a global user base, the company ranked third out of more than 10,000 providers worldwide in June of the same year.

https://www.moonstake.io/  

About Harmony

Harmony is a fast and secure blockchain with key innovations in state sharding and peer-to-peer networking. Its sharding uses secure proof-of-stake and decentralized randomness, and its networking achieves optimal cross-shard routing and fast block propagation.

Harmony helps businesses build marketplaces of fungible tokens (such as energy credits and loyalty points) and non-fungible assets (such as game collectibles and real estate).

Harmony is applying zero-knowledge proofs for data sharing while preserving the consumer’s privacy. Common industry use cases include ad exchanges, credit ratings and many other data consortia that would otherwise take many years to form among competing companies.

Harmony recently launched on Binance and shipped Day ONE Mainnet. 

https://www.harmony.one/ 

2021 was a huge year for the cryptocurrency market, with huge strides in growth and adoption of digital assets, NFTs, and blockchain worldwide. It was also an incredible year for Moonstake as we rose the the top rankings of global staking providers, reaching a total staking assets of $1.8 billion thanks to the support of our users and partners worldwide. As we begin the new year 2022, Moonstake as well as our strategic coin partners have many exciting news and programs in store for you as our platforms scale and evolve. To welcome our user community into the exciting new year, we’re creating a series of articles in collaboration with our strategic partner on what you need to know about our partner coins in the year 2022, this time with Centrality.

As of February 2021, Moonstake has been supporting CENNZ staking via strategic partnership with the development team behind the Centrality blockchain, CENNZnet, since August 2020. Most notably, Moonstake was the world’s first wallet to support CENNZ MainNet and CPAY and has since remained one of the leading CENNZ staking providers. In fact, our staking volume for CENNZ has reached $5.5 million, making Moonstake Wallet the largest CENNZ staking pool in the world. This number is achieved within just 10 days since the launch of CENNZ staking. Since then, Moonstake has hosted a number of campaigns that promote awareness of the Centrality ecosystem as well as adoption of CENNZ staking to global users including commission-free staking campaigns and giveaways.

In 2021, CENNZnet accomplished a number of major development milestones. In June, its decentralized exchange CENNZX went live, allowing super fast and totally secure exchange of CENNZnet’s core tokens and eventually, any active CENNZnet token. The official CENNZnet NFT module was also launched, allowing users to mint and sell NFTs on CENNZnet without ever needing to touch a smart contract. CENNZnet also launched its own two-way token bridge, Emery, which connects CENNZnet to Ethereum for seamless cross-chain data and asset transfer. Additionally, the network also successfully hosted a number of hackathons despite Covid-19 disruption as well as a grant program to incentivize building on the CENNZnet chain. In this article, we will be interviewing our partner at Centrality about what is in store for the Centrality ecosystem and its user community in 2022.

Q1 Which 2021 achievements are you the most proud of?

It’s been a huge year for CENNZnet. With the mainnet up and running, 2021 has been the year of non-stop building and innovation, and my has it been exciting! So far the team have successfully launched staking, CENNZX our decentralised exchange, point and click NFTs, the Emery token bridge and even gone carbon negative to name just a few! 

2021 was the year of the NFT and CENNZnet pivoted fast to join the market leaders. Using our protocol level NFT module users can mint and sell NFTs on CENNZnet without ever needing to touch a smart contract. Instead, users can create custom NFTs using just a Javascript API or point and click with a UI.

Not only will this make it super straightforward for anyone to mint NFT assets, but creators also won’t be locked into a specific marketplace.This piece of work will open us up to work with some major metaverse projects in 2022, so you could say that it’s the most exciting launch for 2021.

Q2 What measures are you going to take in 2022 to further increase adoption of CENNZnet?

In the second half of 2021 we were focussed on fostering relationships with established metaverse projects with very large and engaged communities. In the first quarter of 2022 we will begin the announcements about these partnerships. These campaigns are primarily designed to increase the number of people in our communities, with the next step to be educating them on how they can get involved with our project via purchasing CENNZ and staking. 

Q3 What can users expect from Centrality in 2022?

The spectacular work that has happened in 2021 means the team will be hitting the ground running in 2022. Expect some super exciting projects, rebranding CENNZnet as the ‘blockchain for the metaverse’, exclusive partnerships and the full implementation of on-chain decentralised governance.

Moonstake is proud to be strategic partners of Centrality. We will continue to maintain strong support for the ever growing and developing Centrality ecosystem and hope to bring even more great value to CENNZ and crypto users worldwide in 2022 to help accelerate adoption of the Centrality and Moonstake ecosystems together.

About Moonstake

As a world-leading staking service provider, Moonstake develops and operates decentralized wallet services for enterprises and end users.

Our full-scale staking business started in August 2020. With the support of users all over the world, our total staking assets has risen to 1.8 billion dollars. In June 2021, we ranked third among 15,000 staking providers globally.

So far, we have expanded our business and ecosystem through about 30 strategic partnerships, including major blockchains such as Emurgo which is a constituent organization of Cardano, TRON, and NEO. In May 2021, we became a wholly owned subsidiary of the listed company “OIO Holdings Limited” on the Singapore Stock Exchange and we are working to further expand Moonstake’s business and improve our credibility.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About Centrality

Centrality is the world’s leading fintech venture platform based in New Zealand. They have received a research grant from the New Zealand government and are working with the New Zealand government to build a decentralized system through the public-private integrated organization “Digital Identity NZ” together with NZ Tech and Singlesource.

https://centrality.ai/ 

2021 was a huge year for the cryptocurrency market, with huge strides in growth and adoption of digital assets, NFTs, and blockchain worldwide. It was also an incredible year for Moonstake as we rose the the top rankings of global staking providers, reaching a total staking assets of $1.8 billion thanks to the support of our users and partners worldwide. As we begin the new year 2022, Moonstake as well as our strategic coin partners have many exciting news and programs in store for you as our platforms scale and evolve. To welcome our user community into the exciting new year, we’re creating a series of articles in collaboration with our strategic partner on what you need to know about our partner coins in the year 2022, this time with IOST.

As of May 2021, Moonstake has been supporting IOST staking and network resource management via strategic partnership with the IOST development team. Since then, Moonstake hosted several key campaigns that helped bring over 1,000 new users to the IOST ecosystem via free account creation as well as promote awareness and adoption of IOST staking such as quizzes, webinars, and staking tournaments. By the end of December, Moonstake’s Servi Node had more than 500 voters with over 70.33 million IOST votes, ranking 11th among all validator nodes.

As for IOST last year, the network surpassed the mark of 600,000 total mainnet accounts in November. Throughout the year, IOST also made great strides in the realm of NFT, as the blockchain worked with a number of notable NFT marketplaces to support and optimize the experience of using IOST NFTs for its users. The network also debuted its first ever “IOST official anthem” and also partnered with several DeFi players to further expand in this sector. In this article, we will be interviewing our partner at IOST about what is in store for the IOST ecosystem and its user community in 2022.

Q1 Which 2021 achievements are you the most proud of?

IOST is well-known for our technical advancement and superiority. That remains our strength in 2021 as we constantly accomplish more mainnet milestones, currently hosting a whooping number of over 632 millions transactions and over 620 thousands mainnet accounts. It’s also no surprise that the IOST blockchain network has never had downtime and always offers a smooth transaction experience for our users. The historical data, coupled with IOST’s solid technical foundation, has led us to lead the blockchain ranking CCID by China’s Ministry of Information. 

If we have to pick a key word for IOST in 2021, it would be NFT. The IOST Foundation successfully onboarded potential NFT projects such Revival- an NFT Marketplace for all artists, RIZIN FIGHTING COLLECTION- a sports NFT marketplace for avid Japanese RIZIN fans and TOKENLINK- a gaming NFT Marketplace for CrossLink games items, arts as well as music NFTs. With NFT being one of the biggest buzzwords in the cryptoverse, having well-developed NFT projects will serve us well in the long run. 

Blockchain education always plays a crucial role in our long-term plan, and we are proud to continue the tradition to share the power of blockchain technology to more developers and students this year. The highlight of 2021 in particular would be our strategic collaboration with the University of Nicosia- the world leader in blockchain education and research to offer annual endowed studentships to support, inspire and empower female leads, and create a more inclusive blockchain space. 

Last but not least, we have to also mention our multiple successful partnerships with quality projects including the Moonstake Wallet to grow IOST’s staking ecosystem, Yokozuna Finance as a leading DeFi DApp on IOST, OKCoin Japan for a new listing and new Servi Node,  Bitpanda Exchange to expand IOST’s European market, and many more. To check out our 2021 in recap, see this article https://medium.com/iost/iost-2021-yearly-recap-9454a6139caa

Q2 What measures are you going to take in 2022 to further increase adoption of IOST?

Our team takes a couple of approach to strengthen adoption of IOST this year: 

• Target Market: IOST will work hard our existing strong market such as Japan, Korea and China while further pushing our growth in specific target countries in Asia such as India
•  Dapps: A successful ecosystem needs successful dapps. 2021 has brought IOST quality Dapps such as Yokozuna or RIZIN Fighting Collection. The IOST team will be more aggressive in 2022 to onboard more emerging Dapps into the IOST ecosystem.
•  Interoperability and Interconnectivity: Rather than focusing the efforts on new and mainstream users, we aim to leverage on the existing large pool of crypto users outside IOST.  

Q3 What can users expect from IOST in 2022?

A brief overview of our roadmap in H1 2022 can be found here:

https://link.medium.com/rSQ7VnqXZmb 

Users can find us sticking to our key foundation such as technical maintenance and development, blockchain education, community engagement and ecosystem growth in the IOST roadmap. To stay atop of competition and relevant in the ever-evolving crypto space, it requires us to constantly come up with new and killer moves. We have a secret weapon in development, and will be much more aggressive in growing our ecosystem and community in 2022.

Moonstake is proud to be strategic partners of IOST. We will continue to maintain strong support for the ever growing and developing IOST ecosystem and hope to bring even more great value to IOST and crypto users worldwide in 2022 to help accelerate adoption of the IOST and Moonstake ecosystems together.

About Moonstake

As a world-leading staking service provider, Moonstake develops and operates decentralized wallet services for enterprises and end users.

Our full-scale staking business started in August 2020. With the support of users all over the world, our total staking assets has risen to 1.8 billion dollars. In June 2021, we ranked third among 15,000 staking providers globally.

So far, we have expanded our business and ecosystem through about 30 strategic partnerships, including major blockchains such as Emurgo which is a constituent organization of Cardano, TRON, and NEO. In May 2021, we became a wholly owned subsidiary of the listed company “OIO Holdings Limited” on the Singapore Stock Exchange and we are working to further expand Moonstake’s business and improve our credibility.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About IOST

High fees and slower transaction times on the Ethereum network have left the door open for new solutions to emerge, and IOST is one such project that has been gaining traction since its mainnet launch in 2019.

Backed by major financial and VC firms such as Sequoia, Matrix, and ZhenFund, IOST is a pioneering decentralized, high-throughput, gas-efficient Proof-of-Believability-powered smart contract platform built to tackle the scalability trilemma once and for all. For this, the concluding ranking from China’s CCID ranked IOST as the best blockchain platform under Basic Technology, better than Ethereum, EOS, and every other smart-contracting platform evaluated by the agency. This is a testament to the quality and ability to roll out a better, innovative product and reflective of our true desire to be the best in the sphere.

Being one of the public chain leaders in terms of adoption, performance, and utility, IOST remains committed to our mission to unleash the power of blockchain. IOST currently has the ever-expanding 500,000 community members in over 20 countries, over 400 nodes, a top staking economy, symbiotic relationships with corporations dotted worldwide.

https://iost.io/ 

2021 was a huge year for the cryptocurrency market, with huge strides in growth and adoption of digital assets, NFTs, and blockchain worldwide. It was also an incredible year for Moonstake as we rose the the top rankings of global staking providers, reaching a total staking assets of $1.8 billion thanks to the support of our users and partners worldwide. As we begin the new year 2022, Moonstake as well as our strategic coin partners have many exciting news and programs in store for you as our platforms scale and evolve. To welcome our user community into the exciting new year, we’re creating a series of articles in collaboration with our strategic partner on what you need to know about our partner coins in the year 2022, this time with Orbs.

As of April 2021, Moonstake has been supporting Orbs staking as an official network Guardian via strategic partnership with the Orbs Network development team. Since then, Moonstake has hosted a number of campaigns that promoted awareness and adoption of Orbs staking such as quizzes and giveaways. Currently, Moonstake is part of the upper echelon of all Orbs validators, ranking 10th amongst all 25 ORBS Guardians. 

For Orbs, 2021 was a revolutionary year, a year of innovation, massive ecosystem growth and transformation. After solid research and strategic planning, the Orbs core team has decided to shift much of its focus to the DeFi and NFT space, as Orbs team believes that DeFi and NFTs are already emerging as the best use cases of blockchain technology. 

Orbs also welcomed a number of new Guardians, including Moonstake of course and Japanese guardian, D-Kuru to its network to enhance security and performance. It also made key integrations with leading DeFi-focused blockchains including Solana, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Harmony, and Avalanche to accelerate its DeFi drive and strengthen its position as a multi-chain asset. 

In this article, we will be interviewing our partner at Orbs about what is in store for the Orbs ecosystem and its user community in 2022.

Q1 Which 2021 achievements are you the most proud of?

Since making the shift to DeFi, Orbs has seen a rapid expansion of its ecosystem. Let’s list here some of the prominent innovations and integrations Orbs team has  recently announced: 

• Orbs is now live on all 6 major layer-1 (L1) chains: Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Solana,  Avalanche and Harmony. This in turn accelerated the integration of the Orbs ecosystem with over 17 major DeFi protocols (such as UniSwap, SushiSwap, PancakeSwap, Kyber Networks, 1inch, Alpaca Finance, Beefy Finance, QuickSwap, DinoSwap, Raydium, Trader Joe, Pangolin and more.

All of these multi-chain integrations set down the necessary foundation for Orbs’ further expansion. Orbs’ DeFi interoperability plays a critical role for the next stage of the project’s roadmap, as a layer three (L3) independent execution layer. 

At this stage, the project is focused on utilizing the Orbs Network as a separate execution layer that operates in conjunction with EVM-based L1s and L2s chains to enhance the capabilities of EVM smart contracts. We like to call this architecture – L3 execution layer.

• The Orbs public blockchain infrastructure, powered by its Guardians, a public network of permissionless validators, now enables a separate L3 execution layer that operates in conjunction with EVM-based L1s and L2s, all powered by the ORBS token PoS.

Orbs’ L-3 capabilities are deployed in Open DeFi Notifications Protocol – an open initiative to provide DeFi users with decentralized and free mobile notifications for on-chain events. This is the first project by the team that will utilize and demonstrate Orbs’ unique L3 positioning as a layer 3 execution protocol. Right from the launch we already have a top-notch roster of leading DeFi protocols having their platform integrated into the Notification App. These protocols are across multiple chains such as Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, and Avalanche, and multiple functionalities: DEX-AMMs, yield aggregators, and vaults.

The availability of functioning L2 chains together with Orbs’ rapid expansion into multiple chains, paved the way for various exciting and innovative applications for the Orbs network that were not available before. These include Orbs as a Layer 3 infrastructure for DeFi applications.

• These integrations also allow for the Orbs Network to diversify and add another blockchain to its hybrid architecture by implementing multi-chain staking. Instead of having the Orbs Token staking just on Ethereum, Delegators will have the option of being part of a parallel staking system on Polygon.

Orbs has recently become one of the first players to introduce multi-chain staking on Ethereum and Polygon; this strategic solution is even expected to completely mitigate the current high Ethereum gas costs for Orbs delegators interacting with the Orbs staking contracts.

For more information – you are welcome to check out our social media channels, news and blog pages to see that the project’s scope is rich and diverse. 

Q2 What measures are you going to take in 2022 to further increase the adoption of Orbs?

As was stated above, the team is currently working on further developments of the L3 architecture and multi-chain Orbs PoS staking, having started with the Polygon network.

The Orbs team is currently working on the technical details of the multi-chain Orbs PoS staking proposal. In parallel, the project will initiate ongoing discussions with the Orbs Guardians and the Orbs community to present and review the various aspects of this proposal for notes and feedback.

The Orbs team is extremely excited about this initiative which addresses one of the key feedbacks from the community following the V2 launch. Staking on Polygon will boost the inclusion and participation of Orbs token holders in the PoS Universe staking, as well as solidify Orbs as a multi-chain protocol. 

Q3 What can users expect from Orbs in 2022?

In 2022, Orbs will implement an architecture where a major part of its governance mechanism is deployed on multiple chains. 

Staking on Polygon is expected to boost inclusion and participation of Orbs token holders in the PoS Universe staking, as well as solidify Orbs as a multi-chain protocol. 

As can be seen, Orbs team is always researching new opportunities for the project to explore, new chains to expand, new strategic integrations to consider, and new technical features to test.

We suspect few people can truly foresee how crypto space will further evolve even in the next year; with this being said, Orbs is planning to keep strengthening its position in the DeFi and NFTs spaces, further exploring the diverse opportunities these sectors may unfold. 

Moonstake is proud to be strategic partners of Orbs. We will continue to maintain strong support for the ever growing and developing Orbs ecosystem and hope to bring even more great value to ORBS and crypto users worldwide in 2022 to help accelerate adoption of the Orbs and Moonstake ecosystems together.

About Moonstake

As a world-leading staking service provider, Moonstake develops and operates decentralized wallet services for enterprises and end users.

Our full-scale staking business started in August 2020. With the support of users all over the world, our total staking assets has risen to 1.8 billion dollars. In June 2021, we ranked third among 15,000 staking providers globally.

So far, we have expanded our business and ecosystem through about 30 strategic partnerships, including major blockchains such as Emurgo which is a constituent organization of Cardano, TRON, and NEO. In May 2021, we became a wholly owned subsidiary of the listed company “OIO Holdings Limited” on the Singapore Stock Exchange and we are working to further expand Moonstake’s business and improve our credibility.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About Orbs

Orbs is a public blockchain infrastructure designed for mass usage applications. The Orbs protocol is decentralized and executed by a public network of permissionless validators using Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus.

Orbs unique features designed for interoperability with EVM-compatible blockchains, together with its decentralized network of nodes, allow it to be set up as a separate execution layer (“L3” ) operating to enhance the capabilities of EVM smart contracts. By working in conjunction with other L1 and L2 solutions as part of a tiered blockchain stack, Orbs opens up a whole new spectrum of possibilities for DeFi, NFT, Metaverse and GameFi.

Orbs was founded in 2017 and launched its mainnet and token in March of 2019. Orbs is being developed by a dedicated team of more than 30 people, with offices in Tel Aviv, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul.

For more information, please visit www.orbs.com, or join our community at:

• Telegram: https://t.me/OrbsNetwork
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/orbs_network

2021 was a huge year for the cryptocurrency market, with huge strides in growth and adoption of digital assets, NFTs, and blockchain worldwide. It was also an incredible year for Moonstake as we rose to the top rankings of global staking providers, reaching a total staking assets of $1.8 billion thanks to the support of our users and partners worldwide. As we begin the new year 2022, Moonstake as well as our strategic coin partners have many exciting news and programs in store for you as our platforms scale and evolve. To welcome our user community into the exciting new year, we’re creating a series of articles in collaboration with our strategic partner on what you need to know about our partner coins in the year 2022, this time with TRON.

As of October 2021, Moonstake has been supporting TRON staking as an official Super Partner of TRON network via strategic partnership with the TRON Foundation. Since then, Moonstake has hosted numerous campaigns and initiatives that promoted awareness and adoption of TRON staking such as webinars, staking tournaments, quizzes, and giveaways. 

In 2021, the TRON Network underwent major changes and accomplished many historic milestones. In December, TRON achieved full decentralization, now being run by 27 Super Representatives from the community. In September, TRON joined Bitcoin and Ethereum with its successful listing of VanEck TRX ETP (VTRX) on the Deutsche Boerse and Euronext (Amsterdam and Paris), providing investor access in 14 European markets. By the end of the year, the total number of accounts on the TRON network exceeded 69 million and the total number of transactions was more than 2.7 billion. In this article, we will be interviewing our partner at TRON about what is in store for the TRON ecosystem and its user community in 2022.

Q1 Which 2021 achievements are you the most proud of?

2021 is a vintage year for TRON. The main achievements include:

TRON boasts the largest circulating supply of stablecoins across the globe, overtaking ERC-20 USDT in April and accounting for more than 50% of the global market.

TRX’s daily burning first exceeded daily increase in January, making it one of the first deflating digital currencies in the world, and it has been in deflation since the end of October.

TRX has been accepted by JVCEA as authorized crypto assets in Japan since March, joining some 20 cryptocurrencies listed in Japan.  

TRON has been supported by global institutions. In September, the global leading asset manager VanEck listed its TRX ETP on the Deutsche Börse Xetra and Euronext (Amsterdam and Paris), and the US-based crypto investment fund Valkyrie launched TRX trust.

Q2  What measures are you going to take in 2022 to further increase adoption of TRON?

As a DAO, which is fully digitalized and able to scale globally, TRON will speed up its global expansion towards the mission of delivering the Global Human Settlement Layer of the future.

Q3 What can users expect from TRON in 2022?

As a purely community-governed DAO, TRON allows users to participate in governance and decision-making in a fairer, freer and more flexible fashion. Users will enjoy the full range of rights to engage in and decide the future of the TRON Protocol, while the voice and needs of the community will be heeded as much as possible. 

Besides, as the most inclusive blockchain network in the world, TRON will continue to provide users low-cost and high-speed decentralized services, including stablecoins, wallets, storage, exchanges, lending, liquidity mining, cross-chain applications, Oracle, social media, games, etc. 

Moonstake is proud to be strategic partners of TRON. We will continue to maintain strong support for the ever growing and developing TRON ecosystem and hope to bring even more great value to TRON and crypto users worldwide in 2022 to help accelerate adoption of the TRON and Moonstake ecosystems together.

About Moonstake

As a world-leading staking service provider, Moonstake develops and operates decentralized wallet services for enterprises and end users.

Our full-scale staking business started in August 2020. With the support of users all over the world, our total staking assets has risen to 1.8 billion dollars. In June 2021, we ranked third among 15,000 staking providers globally.

So far, we have expanded our business and ecosystem through about 30 strategic partnerships, including major blockchains such as Emurgo which is a constituent organization of Cardano, TRON, and NEO. In May 2021, we became a wholly owned subsidiary of the listed company “OIO Holdings Limited” on the Singapore Stock Exchange and we are working to further expand Moonstake’s business and improve our credibility.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About TRON

TRON is dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps). Founded in September 2017 by H.E. Justin Sun, the TRON network has continued to deliver impressive achievements since MainNet launch in May 2018. July 2018 also marked the ecosystem integration of BitTorrent, a pioneer in decentralized services boasting nearly 100M monthly active users. The TRON network has gained incredible traction in recent years, with over 69 million users on the blockchain and upwards of 2.7 billion transactions. In addition, TRON hosts the largest circulating supply of stablecoins across the globe, overtaking USDT on Ethereum in April 2021. The TRON network completed full decentralization in Dec 2021 and is now a purely community-governed DAO.

2021 was a huge year for the cryptocurrency market, with huge strides in growth and adoption of digital assets, NFTs, and blockchain worldwide. It was also an incredible year for Moonstake as we rose the the top rankings of global staking providers, reaching a total staking assets of $1.8 billion thanks to the support of our users and partners worldwide. As we begin the new year 2022, Moonstake as well as our strategic blockchain partners have many exciting news and programs in store for you as our platforms scale and evolve. To welcome our user community into the exciting new year, we’re creating a series of articles in collaboration with our strategic partners on what you need to know about them in the year 2022, starting with Cardano (ADA).

Since August 2020, Moonstake has been a strong staking provider for ADA staking, Cardano’s native cryptocurrency, as a strategic partner of EMURGO, the official commercial arm of Cardano. Recently, the group leading Moonstake’s development, Infinity Blockchain Group, was acquired by EMURGO to strengthen EMURGO’s strategic resources & accelerate research into the interoperability of Cardano with other blockchains. 

As for Cardano, last year the blockchain underwent tremendous development updates and accomplished many great milestones. The network became fully community-governed and operated in April and launched public support of smart contracts and thus, DeFi applications in September with the launch of Plutus and the gradual rollout of the Alonzo update. In this article, we will be interviewing our partner EMURGO about what is in store for the Cardano ecosystem and its user community in 2022.

Q1 Which 2021 achievements are you the most proud of?

As mentioned, 2021 was a tremendous year for EMURGO and the Cardano ecosystem, with highlights such as the successful rollout of smart contracts to Cardano’s network, a big increase in Yoroi Wallet adoption, and plans to release new EMURGO products such as Yoroi’s dApp Connector which will greatly facilitate Cardano ADA user interaction with Cardano ecosystem dApps such as DeFi and NFTs.

In particular, EMURGO is proud of establishing a $100 million Cardano ecosystem investment vehicle comprising two entities – EMURGO Ventures and EMURGO Africa – to invest into early startup and growth stage companies that will build Cardano-based solutions.

EMURGO Ventures focuses on developed markets outside of Africa to facilitate the building of solutions and services on Cardano with seed investments into a variety of Cardano-focused startups and middleware solutions companies, including those building decentralized financial services (DeFi), non-fungible token (NFT) projects, blockchain developer education tools, and other decentralized applications.

EMURGO Africa’s goal on the other hand is to ultimately support more than three hundred Africanl startups through seed funding and incubation, and have Cardano’s blockchain adopted as the technological platform standard in Africa for socially impactful solutions. For its launch to achieve this goal, EMURGO Africa partnered with Adanian Labs, a successful venture building studio operator in Africa, to support impact driven startups expanding the Cardano ecosystem across the continent; and Adaverse, a Cardano-focused joint accelerator program in Africa.

EMURGO’s new Cardano investment vehicle will greatly enhance and support the development of socially impactful solutions utilizing Cardano’s green blockchain technology, ultimately providing benefits to both developers and society.

For more information, please feel free to reach out to [email protected]

Q2 What measures are you going to take in 2022 to further increase adoption of Cardano?

EMURGO has many exciting things in store for 2022, including the official release of Yoroi’s dApp Connector, and more cool features for Yoroi to enrich the Cardano ADA user experience in a rapidly expanding Cardano dApp ecosystem.

We are also highly looking forward to cultivating the Cardano NFT ecosystem and community with the launch of our own Cardano-based NFT marketplace, Fiborite, scheduled to come soon in early 2022. 

Artists and musicians are encouraged to pre-register for the launch of Fiborite by going to the official site here and follow Fiborite on Twitter at @FiboNFT.

As a founding entity of the Cardano blockchain, EMURGO’s Cardano NFT marketplace Fiborite is uniquely positioned to offer the Cardano community and global artists the chance to easily mint, buy, and sell NFTs using Cardano ADA directly on the marketplace. Those unfamiliar with NFTs will be able to easily use Fiborite’s simple and user-intuitive UX to either mint, buy, or sell NFTs of their choosing.

Additionally in 2022, EMURGO will also provide DeFi services built on Cardano directly through Astarter, including decentralized exchange (DEX), IDO launchpad for token projects building on Cardano, and more to come. This will provide more liquidity and utility for Cardano ADA users and make it easier for projects to utilize Cardano.

Q3 What can users expect from Cardano in 2022?

Users can expect Cardano to continue its consistent development with new dApps and technical upgrades now that Cardano has become fully decentralized with staking rewards given and smart contracts supported. Cardano is also looking to introduce Layer-2 scaling solutions such as Hydra to increase throughput and allow easier mainstream adoption of Cardano’s scalable, sustainable, and interoperable third-generation blockchain. Users can follow Cardano’s development roadmap with status updates at https://roadmap.cardano.org. EMURGO will also continue to support the development of Cardano’s ecosystem through solutions development, Yoroi Wallet feature upgrades, developer education courses, and investments. Please follow EMURGO on Twitter @emurgo_io to always receive the latest news.

Moonstake is proud to be strategic partners of EMURGO and the Cardano blockchain. We will continue to maintain strong support for the ever growing and developing Cardano ecosystem and hope to bring even more great value to ADA and crypto users worldwide in 2022 to help accelerate adoption of the Cardano and Moonstake ecosystems together.

About Moonstake

As a world-leading staking service provider, Moonstake develops and operates decentralized wallet services for enterprises and end users.

Our full-scale staking business started in August 2020. With the support of users all over the world, our total staking assets has risen to 1.8 billion dollars. In June 2021, we ranked third among 15,000 staking providers globally.

So far, we have expanded our business and ecosystem through about 30 strategic partnerships, including major blockchains such as Cardano and its official commercial arm EMURGO, TRON, and NEO. In May 2021, we became a wholly owned subsidiary of the listed company “OIO Holdings Limited” on the Singapore Stock Exchange and we are working to further expand Moonstake’s businesses and improve our visibility.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About EMURGO

EMURGO is the official commercial arm of Cardano and provides socially impactful solutions to solve some of the most intricate problems of organizations. As a founding entity of the Cardano protocol, EMURGO is able to leverage its abilities for large-scale blockchain development and rapid solutions deployment to benefit its global clients. 

EMURGO has offices in Singapore, India, and Indonesia, and a roster of global clients & partners. To connect and learn more, visit https://emurgo.io.

2021 was a huge year for the cryptocurrency market, with huge strides in growth and adoption of digital assets, NFTs, and blockchain worldwide. It was also an incredible year for Moonstake as we rose to the top rankings of global staking providers, reaching total staking assets of $1.8 billion thanks to the support of our users and partners worldwide. As we begin the new year 2022, Moonstake and our strategic coin partners have much exciting news and programs in store for you as our platforms scale and evolve. To welcome our user community into the exciting new year, we’re creating a series of articles in collaboration with our strategic partners on what you need to know about our partner coins in the year 2022, this time with Ontology.

As of April 2020, Moonstake has been supporting ONT staking via strategic partnership with the development team behind Ontology blockchain. Since then, Moonstake has hosted a number of campaigns that promoted awareness of the Ontology ecosystem as well as adoption of ONT staking to global users. Moonstake’s partner Binarystar has also been providing great support in marketing efforts with event organization and local community development.

In 2021, Ontology worked on bringing trust, privacy, and security to Web3 through providing decentralized identity (DID) and data solutions. Most notably, the team spent much of last year on the development of Ontology EVM (Ethereum virtual machine), which is scheduled for public release in Q1 2022. The EVM aims to establish seamless interoperability between Ontology and the Ethereum platform, and  offer an inclusive experience to developers and users, a crucial step in the realization of the Ontology Multi-VM. Additionally, the team also focused on facilitating smooth user access and experience with DeFi, GameFi, NFTs, and general decentralized applications. In this article, we will be interviewing our partner at Ontology about what is in store for the Ontology ecosystem and its user community in 2022.

Q1 Which 2021 achievements are you the most proud of?

In 2021, we brought our existing products in line with our broader vision for Web3. We launched the Ontology EVM TestNet, in preparation for the 2022 MainNet launch. ONT ID surpassed 1.5 million users in September, reflecting a major endorsement for decentralized identity, and ONT.ID website has been upgraded to provide full decentralized identity solutions to users.

Ontology’s global growth has accelerated following our partnerships with bloXmove, ROCKI, ZAICO, and AP.LLC, as well as ONT’s listing on Japanese regulated exchanges like Decurret and Huobi Japan.

We’ve also launched a web-based ONTO Wallet, ONTO Web and a decentralized airdrop distribution tool called ONTO Anydrop, making Web3 easily accessible and providing convenience for our ecosystem partners. Ontology’s DeFi lending platform, Wing Finance, also launched on multiple chains including Ethereum, OKExChain, and BSC, together with the support of Any Pool.

As usual, the last year has been full of incredible achievements. We are excited to drive this success further with the help of our ecosystem partners and our global community.

Q2 What measures are you going to take in 2022 to further increase adoption of Ontology?

The MainNet launch of the Ontology EVM will take place during the first quarter of 2022. As part of our multi-VM, it will allow for the deployment of many more dApps on the Ontology blockchain. This approach will not only bring more development, but also will encourage more users to the Ontology blockchain to experience the benefits of a fast, secure, low cost public chain.

2022 is also a year where Web3, and the Metaverse, establishes a greater presence in everyday life for more and more people. Ontology’s wallet solution, ONTO Wallet, already has over 750k users, and will provide a gateway into Web3 for many more. As we continue to develop the DID and data solutions that we are known for, which are crucial to Web3’s success, more users will be encouraged to create their DID and easily access the latest iteration of the internet.

Q3 What can users expect from Ontology in 2022?

As we laid out in our latest roadmap(https://medium.com/ontologynetwork/ontology-2022-roadmap-a0036cd72f1b) , 2022 is about building the infrastructure and delivering the tools to make Web3 a success. This means greater interoperability, to make cross chain experiences as seamless as possible. It means more collaboration, as chains bring a varying range of benefits to users. At Ontology, we will continue to develop solutions for DID and data, making sure users are onboarded with ease and experience secure, self-sovereign control over their digital existence.

In short, 2022 means more development, more control, more opportunity and an easy access point into Web3 and the Metaverse with Ontology. We look forward to our continued relationship with partners such as Moonstake, and welcome developers, harbingers, builders and new ecosystem partners to join us in building Web3 together.

Moonstake is proud to be strategic partners of Ontology. We will continue to maintain strong support for the ever growing and developing Ontology ecosystem and hope to bring even more great value to ONT and crypto users worldwide in 2022 to help accelerate adoption of the Ontology and Moonstake ecosystems together.

About Moonstake

As a world-leading staking service provider, Moonstake develops and operates decentralized wallet services for enterprises and end users.

Our full-scale staking business started in August 2020. With the support of users all over the world, our total staking assets has risen to 1.8 billion dollars. In June 2021, we ranked third among 15,000 staking providers globally.

So far, we have expanded our business and ecosystem through about 30 strategic partnerships, including major blockchains such as Emurgo which is a constituent organization of Cardano, TRON, and NEO. In May 2021, we became a wholly owned subsidiary of the listed company “OIO Holdings Limited” on the Singapore Stock Exchange and we are working to further expand Moonstake’s business and improve our credibility.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About Ontology

Ontology, the project bringing trust, privacy, and security to Web3 through decentralized identity and data solutions. Ontology is building the infrastructure to provide trusted access to Web3, allowing individuals and enterprises to rest assured that through regulatory compliant digital identity solutions, users and their privacy come first.

https://ont.io/