This April, Moonstake celebrates its 1 year anniversary. We’ve come a long way since our official launch, having established a strong position in the POS market in less than a year. Today, Moonstake total staking assets have reached over $900 Million and are entrusted by core blockchain companies as business partners and crypto users from all over the world. We’ve grown to become one of the top 10 staking providers in the world.

On the celebration of Moonstake’s first anniversary, Founder of Moonstake, Mitsuru Tezuka, says: “2020 was an incredible first year for Moonstake. We achieved over $900 Million in staked assets and earned the trust of investors and businesses worldwide with our staking wallet as well as staking-as-a-service solutions. In just one year, we’ve become one of the top 10 staking providers in the world. We’re very excited to see how the Moonstake ecosystem will continue to grow from 2021 onwards, especially in the DeFi space, and we hope to experience all of it together with you again this year. Thank you for always supporting us!”

Let’s revisit Moonstake’s milestone and look forward to the exciting future of Moostake from 2021 onwards with CEO Lawrence Lin and Shogo Ishida, Moonstake’s Senior Advisor.

Lawrence Lin: Hello, I’m Lawrence Lin, the CEO of Moonstake. It has been 1 year since we debuted Moonstake staking business with the aim to create the biggest staking network in Asia. We developed the most user-friendly staking wallets: Moonstake Web Wallet for web browsers and Moonstake Mobile Wallet on iOS / Android with support for over 2000 cryptocurrencies. Now, Moonstake’s staking community can easily earn staking rewards from all the high demand POS coins on the market including Cosmos, IRIS, Ontology, Harmony, Tezos, Cardano, Qtum, Polkadot, Quras, Centrality and most recently, Orbs.

Moonstake has also forged strategic partnerships with leading industry players, including public blockchains such as Emurgo (global blockchain solutions provider and founder of Cardano), NEO, Ontology, Wanchain, and decentralized projects Pundi X, RAMP DEFI, TZ Ventures, RockX, Stake Technologies, Orbs, Unido, and more. These partnerships not only allow Moonstake to enable staking of more PoS coins for our users but also make Moonstake’s technology ecosystem more accessible to the global staking community.

Question: What are the biggest adoption barriers for Proof of Stake and Staking right now and how should we solve them for investors and also blockchain businesses?

Lawrence Lin: Definitely the lack of awareness and the still inaccessible user experience. The public mostly know about “the cryptocurrency with crazy price change” that is Bitcoin, but PoS coins aren’t as prominent to the masses, especially since trading to make a profit is much easier to adopt due to being similar to investing with other asset classes like stocks, real estate, gold, etc. In reality, staking is basically like putting your savings into a bank, but much safer since it’s on a decentralized network instead of the centralized banking system.

However, staking isn’t simply putting money in a safe. It’s an activity that impacts the operations of the blockchain network since it’s essentially selecting the validators (miners) to facilitate transactions. Such added technical complexities might make staking seem too intimidating to the average crypto investor, and even more so for businesses looking to adopt blockchain.

Moonstake works to accelerate adoption of staking by addressing both these pain points for investors and businesses. By hosting initiatives like educational webinars and collaborating both blockchain projects and institutions, we want to help spread awareness of blockchain and decentralized technologies more effectively. At the same time, we develop the user-friendly Moonstake Wallet that supports only the most highly demanded PoS coins through official partnerships with the blockchain projects so that investors can earn well from their idle funds with optimal yield without having to deal with the technical complexities of PoS blockchains. We also offer Moonstake staking pool and node solutions to enterprises so that they can start utilizing and benefiting from implementing blockchain in their business with plug-and-play ease.

Question: You have been professed to enter the DeFi domain, but what kind of development does Moonstake plan to try in the DeFi domain?

Shogo Ishida: Recently, we announced their DeFi project Muse.Finance on March 31st. In addition to creating its own products, Muse.Finance will also be widely accepting applications from DeFi products that wish to connect to Its platform. This is a decentralized platform that allows crypto asset holders to profit from lending through wrapped assets while participating in staking and yield farming at the same time. Its ecosystem design, consisting of Muse Swap, Muse Lending and Muse Wrap, connects the DeFi ecosystem of tokens issued on Ethereum (ERC-20) with Ethereum 2.0 to create a liquidity-generating PoS platform. In addition, by using advanced cross-chain technology, Muse.Finance is expanding its crypto-asset economic zone, starting with Cardano and extending its service offerings to Polkadot, Solana, Oasis, Terra, Centrality and others.

Muse.Finance will launch its first product, a wrap and swap platform, in May. Later in the year, we will gradually enhance Muse DeFi platform with Lending and Yield Farming.

About Moonstake

Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies.

Moonstake aims to be the largest staking pool network in Asia by providing an active environment for crypto asset holders. Establishing a clear partnership roadmap with Moonstake represents another significant milestone for continuing to strengthen ties with leading platforms across Asia’s burgeoning Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ecosystem. Partnership has been announced with Emurgo, Ontology and NEO to boost staking adoption, Binarystar, Japan’s biggest blockchain hub, OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO), a Singapore-listed company. Industry’s reputed advisors, such as Lisk and Lawrence Lim of RAMP DEFI support Moonstake’s innovative journey.

With a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, we expanded our business and as of now, our total staking assets exceeded over USD 900 Million.

https://www.moonstake.io/

To celebrate Moonstake’s first anniversary, we’ve conducted an interview with our Founder, Mr. Mitsuru Tezuka, to talk about Moonstake’s past achievements and future business development, as well as discuss the blockchain industry.

Interview video link: https://youtu.be/mAT0q_mLulE

The interview was moderated by Shogo Ishida, Senior Advisor at Moonstake.

Please see the summary below. 

Mr. Ishida: Can you tell us how Moonstake was found?

Mr. Tezuka:
Having been in the crypto business for 10 years now, I want to create a horizontal connection as a business while interacting with various people and projects in the crypto industry and community.

When proof of stake began to attract attention in recent years, we started the business  to create a wallet with staking power for multiple coins. This is a good opportunity to utilize our technical strength and expertise in the industry to meet the demands of the crypto community in the world.

Mr. Ishida: Please share about Moonstake’s 2020 business development.

Mr. Tezuka:
When we started Moonstake Wallet in 2020, we wanted to raise awareness of staking. We decided to partner with projects that are connected in the industry and help them utilize staking in order to increase the liquidity of their own token.

We are actively working to improve Moonstake’s UI/UX to differentiate ourselves from competitors in the market. With more tokens available on Moonstake, everyone can freely stake without any limitation.

Mr. Ishida: In early 2021, Moonstake was ranked 8th as best staking validator in the world in staking volume. How did Moonstake achieve this result?

Mr. Tezuka:
I believe that our active development over the past year is starting to bear fruit and help us achieve industry leading position.

We were also supported by the market that was soaring throughout the industry from the end of the year to the first quarter of 2021. I think that this achievement was an opportunity to increase the recognition of Moonstake in the industry. Recently, we have been interacting with our competitors alot and discussing the possibility of collaborating with them in the future.

Mr. Ishida: Moonstake announced its entry into the DeFi space. What kind of development can we expect from Moonstake in the future?

Mr. Tezuka:
Our advantage is having a strong staking wallet that offers support for various blockchain products and DeFi services.

Moonstake had considered partnering with other projects to penetrate DeFi. However, the market has yet to reach maturity, as there are not as many well-established projects still. This is why we decided to enter DeFi as a formal project ourselves and take on the challenges of this new frontier.

Mr. Ishida:
In the DeFi area, we launched a project called Muse Finance. As its founder, I would like to utilize the assets of Staking, based on the premise of working together with Moonstake.
From a user’s perspective, we think it is very important to have more options for financial services by providing access to lending and DEX while having more ways to earn staking rewards. The DeFi market has expanded 66 times last year, so it is definitely an area with extreme growth potential. In this market, Moonstake would like to consider developing services that will allow us to take advantage of the achievements we have made in 2020.

Mr. Ishida: What are your thoughts on the industry in the next year and the next three years?

Mr. Tezuka:
I understand that the market is busy in 2021, but personally it is not what I’m focused on. I believe it is more important how much blockchain technology is advancing the connection with society rather than price changes. For now, I think there are cases where blockchain services are implemented in the supply chain and in governance. If this part is realized, I expect that liquidity will increase in line with actual demand and become even greater than the liquidity that is currently centered on investment.

Mr. Ishida: What is Moonstake’s business outlook?

Mr. Tezuka:
Currently, no specific product has penetrated the crypto wallet business in Japan. I think it’s a difficult business to conduct on its own. With Moonstake Wallet, we will actively introduce staking and DeFi services that enable customers to grow their assets. In the future, we hope to gain market share as a user-friendly wallet  provides liquidity to various assets in the digital payment domain.

Mr. Ishida: What is the meaning of Moonstake to you, Mr. Tezuka?

Mr. Tezuka:
Right now we believe that a wallet with ultimate UI / UX is indispensable. In Japan, there is a strong culture of traditional cash payment, but looking at the financial infrastructures in less developed countries, I believe that the existence of digital currencies is very valuable. Currently, we are positioning Moonstake Wallet mainly in Asia. But in the future, I would like to reach into the field of digital payments, which is accelerating worldwide.

Mr. Ishida: Last question, do you have any message for our users?

Mr. Tezuka:
We would like to thank all of our users for choosing Moonstake Wallet.

Our motto is to actively listen to users’ opinions and suggestions and upgrade our product accordingly. This way, we can continue to improve our service to make it easier for you to use. Together, we can create a better service and the best staking wallet!

Thank you for supporting Moonstake and please stay tuned for more updates from us.

About Moonstake

Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies.

Moonstake aims to be the largest staking pool network in Asia by providing an active environment for crypto asset holders. Establishing a clear partnership roadmap with Moonstake represents another significant milestone for continuing to strengthen ties with leading platforms across Asia’s burgeoning Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ecosystem. Partnership has been announced with Emurgo, Ontology and NEO to boost staking adoption, Binarystar, Japan’s biggest blockchain hub, OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO), a Singapore Catalist-Listed company. Industry’s reputed advisors, such as Lisk and Lawrence Lim of RAMP DEFI support Moonstake’s innovative journey.

With a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, we expanded our business and as of now, our total staking assets exceeded over USD 900 Million.

https://www.moonstake.io/

This April, Moonstake celebrates our first anniversary and in this article, we’re interviewing one of our strategic partners, TZ Ventures from South Korea, with whom we’ve been working since September 2020 to accelerate industry adoption of staking within Tezos’ ecosystem. Representing TZ Ventures is Jaywon Lee, Director of TZ Ventures, who  is also the author of a best-selling IT book in Korea titled, “Path to becoming a blockchain company”.

TZ Ventures incubates early stage blockchain startups based on Tezos. They provide support to projects building on Tezos and venturing into equity financing. They mainly incubate projects on Tezos and aim to build real business use cases of blockchain technology. They run a regular program that assists startups with technical support, mentoring, marketing, partnerships, fund-raising and more. Tezos (XTZ) is one of the 11 market-demanded PoS coins currently supported by Moonstake alongside Cosmos, IRIS, Ontology, Harmony, Cardano, Qtum, Polkadot, Quras, Centrality and most recently, Orbs.

Here is the full transcript of the interview.

1. Moonstake is celebrating its 1-year anniversary. In 1 year, Moonstake has reached $900 million in total staked assets and rank #8 among global staking service providers. As a partner, what do you think about Moonstake and its achievements as a staking provider?
Congratulations. This is amazing progress! I think the key to your success is your continual commitment to being reliable/trustworthy and pursuing the highest technology.

2. What is your project about and what is its current focus?
Tezos is an advanced blockchain protocol that can avoid buggy codes. For more info, please refer to: https://tezos.com/. TZ Ventures incubates projects that build on Tezos. We assist projects with technical support, mentorships and funding introductions. TZ Ventures is especially interested in assisting DeFi, NFT and entertainment/gaming projects this year. For more info: www.tz.ventures.

3. Why did you decide to partner with Moonstake?
We are always in search of reliable and tech-savvy stakers (in Tezos terms, bakers). Moonstake satisfies both criteria. Last and this year, in particular, we witnessed a dynamic growth of DeFi and how it breathed life back to crypto. Moonstake was at the forefront of dealing with this change and was adept in making DeFi and staking exist in harmony.

4. Which areas of collaboration are you working on?
We collaborate in all fields: Staking, DeFi, R&D, meet-ups, marketing, and etc. We are always open to giving and receiving advice and technical support. We serve as “mutual mentors” for our respective organizations since no one is an expert in all blockchain fields.

5. How do you see the synergy between your project and Moonstake in the future?
Moonstake is a great partner that is sensitive to change. In this dynamic crypto environment, synergies are sure to arise when we can better prepare for the future together.

Moonstake is honored to partner with leading projects and institutions like TZ Ventures at the forefront of driving global adoption of blockchain technology. We’re working non-stop to expand our service offering for both staking and from now on, DeFi, as well as strengthen our partnership network to continue to deliver great value to both users and businesses worldwide. We would like to thank all of our partners for joining us on our quest to accelerate global adoption of staking and look forward to closer collaboration with TZ Ventures in the future to further promote adoption of XTZ staking.

About Moonstake

Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies.

Moonstake aims to be the largest staking pool network in Asia by providing an active environment for crypto asset holders. Establishing a clear partnership roadmap with Moonstake represents another significant milestone for continuing to strengthen ties with leading platforms across Asia’s burgeoning Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ecosystem. Partnership has been announced with Emurgo, Ontology and NEO to boost staking adoption, Binarystar, Japan’s biggest blockchain hub, OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO), a Singapore-listed company. Industry’s reputed advisors, such as Lisk and Lawrence Lim of RAMP DEFI support Moonstake’s innovative journey.

With a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, we expanded our business and as of now, our total staking assets exceeded over USD 900 Million.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About TZ Ventures

TZ Ventures incubates early stage blockchain startups on Tezos. They provide support to projects building on Tezos and venturing into equity financing in Southeast Asia. They mainly incubate projects on Tezos and aim to build real business use cases of blockchain technology. They run a regular program that assists startups with technical support, mentoring, marketing, partnerships, fund-raising and more.

https://www.tz.ventures/ 

To celebrate our first anniversary this April, Moonstake held a joint Q&A with Staking Rewards, the first and most trusted resource hub for staking and yield-bearing assets data. This interview provides many valuable insights into the current state as well as the future outlook of the Proof-of-Sake market and information about Moonstake, a top-ranking staking provider on Staking Rewards.

Here, the Senior Advisor of Moonstake, Shogo Ishida, serves as the moderator. Answering the questions are Mirko Schmiedl, the CEO and Founder of Staking Rewards, and Lawrence Lin, the CEO of Moonstake. Here’s the full transcript of the interview.

Shogo: What should I watch out for in 2021 to stay on top of one of the hottest trends in staking?

Mirko: 2021 will be a year with a lot of noise. Thus even more important to pick the right news sources and content to stay on top of trends. Already seeing a lot of projects without any substance popping up everywhere. I would try to listen to people with proven track-record only. And refer to news sources that are trusted and work professionally. At Stakingrewards.com we thrive to provide a pre-vetted and independent overview of the entire staking market.

Shogo: What can we expect to see in the Proof-of-Stake market in 2021 and how to stay on top of all the hottest trends in staking?

Mirko: One of the biggest trends in 2021 is definitely staking derivatives. With the launch of Ethereum 2,0 in December last year, we have seen many solutions being developed which offer liquid staking products that can be traded on the secondary market. This trend is emerging into the multichain nature which is another big trend for 2021. There are more and more bridges and it is now possible to move wrapped staked assets across chains. Lido Finance, Stafi Protocol, and Anchor Protocol are great examples.

Mr Ishida: What are the biggest adoption barriers for Proof-of-Stake and Staking right now and how should we solve them?

Mirko: One of the biggest barriers is still the ease of use. There are not many solutions that provide a simple user interface for multiple crypto assets. Especially across chains there needs to be more easy tooling to hold, store, and stake many assets in one interface. Another adoption barrier is the unclarity for tax treatment. I see many people hold off staking as they are afraid of the legal treatment. From the Protocol Research perspective I think we have mainly achieved consensus, that Proof-of-Stake is the go-to group of algorithms which will dominate the market besides Bitcoin. We made it! Governance is a topic that still needs a lot of attention. We are still in the very early days for that. It will be a big challenge, once networks become more decentralized. As of now this is still a long path until we will face the real challenges. Most projects are still highly centralized and the decision making process is achieved fast.

Shogo: Ethereum, the world’s #2 biggest blockchain, which originally a Proof-of-Work blockchain, has begun its development to switch to Proof-of-Stake network at the end of last year. How do you think this will impact the future of the staking market going forward?

Mirko: The launch of Ethereum 2.0 was a massive milestone for the overall blockchain space. It marked the beginning of a whole new era. Ethereum sets trends and drives innovation. Their unique approach which fosters grass roots participation and decentralization makes the network more resilient and I hope other protocols will be inspired and can learn from them. Ethereum in my view combined the Proof-of-Stake design of Early Stage projects like Peercoin, NXT, Reddcoin, etc with the later stage projects like Tezos, Cosmos, EOS. Ethereum took the best of both worlds and is also strong in layer 2 tooling, like development of sacred shared validator keys, staking derivatives etc.

Shogo: What makes a staking network unique amongst others on the market?

Mirko: A good staking network needs to have long-term aligned incentives, great security module, active governance participation, ease-to-use, accessible for everyone, low minimums, shorter lock-ups times, good tooling, great wallets, rich set of high-profile validators, rich set of grass roots validators, community engagement, good API/data access, great block explorer, simple economic design that is easy to understand, solving liquidity issues, also having raised less money is mainly a good thing for projects. That’s just to name a few points I consider extremely important for a project to stand out. You can see that all of the top-ranking staking projects are being adopted and supported by the high-profile staking providers such as Moonstake. On Staking Rewards you can find interesting patterns between the quality assets and providers.

Shogo: Recently, Moonstake has formed alliances with various blockchain projects like Centrality, Polkadot, Orbs. How does Moonstake decide on which Proof-of-Stake coin to support?

Lawrence: If you look at Moonstake’s lineup of supported assets, you can probably see the strategy behind our decision. That is, we focus on the demand of the market for that coin, how popular it is, and how large its staking volume is. And of course, we’re always open for deeper collaboration opportunities, so we also look at how the project’s vision and roadmap goals can align with our own to widen our scope of collaboration.

Shogo: Stakingrewards.com provides rankings for staking providers, DeFi platforms, exchanges, and wallets. What are some key things that the top platforms in each category have in common?

Mirko: Good and successful staking providers are amongst the best research boutiques in the industry. They choose wisely which networks to validate, thus the networks they choose are likely to have good long-term incentives in place. This makes these coins highly demanded by the community and therefore worth supporting, which I believe, like what Lawrence just said, is a strategy Moonstake is currently adopting.

DeFi platforms have to be innovative or fill a no-brainer market gap (e.g. Pancakeswap as “Uniswap on BSC”) in order to succeed. The successful platforms are driving innovation and development, while having great incentives for the community. Giving away more than 50% of tokens to the community via farming in order to bootstrap the network is more of a necessity these days.

Successful exchanges are easy-to-use, and list good projects. Again it’s important for exchanges to have a strong research arm and be close to innovation. Staking features and campaigns are becoming more and more a differentiating factor.

Shogo: Moonstake became one of the top 10 staking providers within 1 year. What was the strategy to accomplish this as a staking wallet solution for users and businesses?

Lawrence: Indeed, 2020 was an incredible first year for Moonstake. We achieved over $900 Million in staked assets and earned the trust of investors and businesses worldwide with our staking wallet as well as staking-as-a-service solutions. In just one year, we’ve become one of the top 10 biggest staking providers in the world. This is thanks to our strategy of only collaborating with the most esteemed institutions, projects, and custodians on the market while also taking active part in promoting global awareness of blockchain and staking in various educational initiatives, bringing the world of cryptocurrency and decentralized technologies to a wider audience of consumers and businesses. And with the recent launch of Muse.Finance, the Moonstake ecosystem will continue to grow from 2021 onwards, especially in the frontier of DeFi, and help accelerate the connection from staking to DeFi.

Moonstake has been proudly featured in the top 10 rankings of global staking providers on Staking Rewards since February this year. We were thrilled to have a joint interview with them and hope for potential collaboration opportunities in the future.

About Moonstake

Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies.

Moonstake aims to be the largest staking pool network in Asia by providing an active environment for crypto asset holders. Establishing a clear partnership roadmap with Moonstake represents another significant milestone for continuing to strengthen ties with leading platforms across Asia’s burgeoning Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ecosystem. Partnership has been announced with Emurgo, Ontology and NEO to boost staking adoption, Binarystar, Japan’s biggest blockchain hub, OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO), a Singapore-listed company. Industry’s reputed advisors, such as Lisk and Lawrence Lim of RAMP DEFI support Moonstake’s innovative journey.

With a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, we expanded our business and as of now, our total staking assets exceeded over USD 900 Million.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About Staking Rewards

Staking Rewards is a platform of open-concourse, that provides data and guidance to minimize the risk when investing in the countless opportunities to earn passive income with cryptocurrencies. The team is curating knowledge and data to build a healthy staking and defi ecosystem. Staking Rewards is committed to lowering the access barrier to staking opportunities by presenting, comparing and benchmarking all the (Staking) Providers, who are dedicated to providing infrastructure, security, expertise and sometimes even custody or insurance for the staking assets.

https://www.stakingrewards.com/

Moonstake’s CEO Lawrence Lin and Senior Advisor Shogo Ishida sat down with Staking Rewards for a special interview on staking, DeFi, and the Moonstake ecosystem. 

Moonstake is a global staking platform that allows users to earn passive income from their idle investments with just a few simple clicks. Moonstake’s current lineup of supported PoS coins includes Cosmos, IRIS, Ontology, Harmony, Tezos, Cardano, Qtum, Polkadot, Quras, Centrality, Orbs and most recently, IOST. Moonstake aims to be the largest staking pool network in Asia by providing an active and safe environment for crypto asset holders. Today, our total staking assets have reached $1 billion and our ecosystem is trusted by leading blockchain companies as business partners, and crypto users from all over the world. Such remarkable achievements have allowed us to grow rapidly and now become one of the top 10 staking providers in the world.

Meanwhile, Staking Rewards is the first and most reliable source for Staking and yield-bearing assets data, with Proof-of-Stake Protocols being the core focus. Additionally, their platform covers Masternode Coins, Dividend Tokens and Lending Protocols.

In this interview, Moonstake discusses with Staking Rewards our project’s vision, alpha, and investment case, as well as providing our examination and insights on the general market. The interview is available here. 

Interview highlights:

• About our vision: Currently, Moonstake is focused on improving the user experience and innovating wallet technology, one of Moonstake’s strengths. We’re breaking down the barriers between cryptocurrencies and ordinary wallets, making it easier for people to connect to their digital assets and DeFi. With technology and UX innovation, we aim to create a world where traditional asset management and cryptocurrency asset management are accessible at the same level.
  

• About our strategy: We value community feedback (especially local) and differentiate ourselves from leading global products by selecting the most in-demand coins in local markets and providing locally optimized customer support. We have been largely successful in the major Asian markets for cryptocurrencies and are now preparing to increase our presence in the neighboring markets (e.g. Southeast Asia).

• About our partners: We always keep a close relationship with our partners as we believe that there is always value to be found from leveraging our expertises. As partners, we enhance their network’s ecosystem by being a technology partner, helping both projects to scale together while improving global access to blockchain services.

• About our focus for the general market: Right now, Moonstake is focusing on the UX and simplifying the abstraction of the technology, as we believe it is one of the biggest barriers of entry for crypto. By making the user experience of crypto easily accessible, we believe that we can get more and more people to give digital assets a shot and eventually, use it everyday.

• About our alpha: We believe Cardano has the most future-proof token economics, Polkadot has proven to have the most “product-market-fit”, and Aavegotchi to have the most sophisticated staking mechanism and use case among non-Layer 1 PoS networks.

• About our next developments: We’re working to integrate staking of LISK and other coins into Moonstake Wallet next. 

The interest and demand for staking, DeFi, and digital asset investment as a whole are now at an all-time high in history thanks to the incredible progress and achievements the blockchain and cryptocurrency markets have accomplished in recent years. Moonstake will continue to strategically expand our lineup of wallet staking features as well as ecosystem services to meet the demands of investors. With our entrance into the DeFi market together with the newly launched Muse.Finance, Moonstake will be bringing even more value to users and businesses in the coming years. Please look forward to it and as always, thank you for supporting us.

About Moonstake

Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies.

Moonstake aims to become Asia’s largest staking pool network by providing crypto asset holders with an active and appealing environment. We are focusing on partnerships to build good relationships with major platform providers. In addition to core blockchains such as Emurgo, Ontology and NEO to promote staking, and Binarystar, Japan’s largest blockchain hub, we are affiliated with Singapore-listed company OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO) and others. Moonstake’s innovative activities are supported by industry-renowned advisors such as Lisk and Lawrence Lim of RAMP DEFI.

With a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, we expanded our business and as of now, our total staking assets exceeded over USD 1 billion.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About Staking Rewards

Staking Rewards is a platform of open-concourse, that provides data and guidance to minimize the risk when investing in the countless opportunities to earn passive income with cryptocurrencies. The team is curating knowledge and data to build a healthy staking and defi ecosystem. Staking Rewards is committed to lowering the access barrier to staking opportunities by presenting, comparing and benchmarking all the (Staking) Providers, who are dedicated to providing infrastructure, security, expertise and sometimes even custody or insurance for the staking assets.

https://www.stakingrewards.com/ 

Moonstake and our strategic partner, Orbs blockchain, will hold a joint webinar on 21st of Apr at 7PM in Singapore time. We will discuss the future collaboration of Moonstake as a Guardian  (validator) of ORBS and Blockchain Applications for Businesses and Finance.This webinar will be useful for those who want to learn more about Orbs and the applications of blockchain and staking for businesses. ORBS staking will be made available on Moonstake Wallet in the coming week. After Cosmos, IRISnet, Ontology, Harmony, Tezos, Cardano, Qtum, Polkadot, Quras and Centrality, ORBS becomes the 11th available staking coin on Moonstake.

Orbs offers the winning blockchain stack, providing the perfect mix of performance, cost, security and ease of use, while harnessing the power of community, decentralization and distribution. By entering into a strategic partnership with Moonstake, the two companies are working to  accelerate global awareness and adoption of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in the field of finance together.

There will be plenty of time for Q&A, so please feel free to ask any questions you may have.

About this webinar
TOPIC: The Applications of Blockchain for Businesses

DATE & TIME: 21st of Apr, 7PM-8PM in Singapore time (GMT+8) 

* In the 1st 30 minutes, both English and Japanese are available. The 2nd 30 minutes will be a Q & A session in Japanese only. Both parties will conduct webinars in the other languages in the near future.

SPEAKERS:
Shogo Ishida, Senior Advisor of Moonstake
Ran Hammer, General Counsel of Orbs

IN THIS WEBINAR, YOU WILL LEARN:

• Please explain Orbs and its unique proposition 
• How will Moonstake and Orbs collaboration help to enhance the Orbs ecosystem?
• What are the benefits Orbs’ global community can expect from this partnership?
• Why do you think blockchain is important for businesses and how can Moonstake and Obrs contribute to the future of Banking and Finance Industry?
• Moonstake started staking support for ORBS as a Guardian (Validator) of Orbs network, and how else will the two ecosystems collaborate? 
• What are some of the prospected milestones coming up in 2021?

Pre-registration is required to participate, so please register from the link below. RSVP Today to take advantage of this free webinar.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XDBI19ILQcmfABDdm6xOcA

About Moonstake

Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies.

Moonstake aims to be the largest staking pool network in Asia by providing an active environment for crypto asset holders. Establishing a clear partnership roadmap with Moonstake represents another significant milestone for continuing to strengthen ties with leading platforms across Asia’s burgeoning Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ecosystem. Partnership has been announced with Emurgo, Ontology and NEO to boost staking adoption, Binarystar, Japan’s biggest blockchain hub, OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO), a Singapore-listed company. Industry’s reputed advisors, such as Lisk and Lawrence Lim of RAMP DEFI support Moonstake’s innovative journey.

With a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, we expanded our business and as of now, our total staking assets exceeded over USD 800 Million.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About Orbs

Orbs is a free, open-source, public blockchain infrastructure.Combining scalability, low fees and isolation between virtual chains with a top-grade developer experience, online IDE and smart contracts in familiar languages, Orbs provide developers the perfect mix of performance, cost, security and ease of use.  The Orbs protocol is decentralized and executed by a public network of permissionless validators using Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus. The Orbs protocol relies on the ORBS token used for the settlement of fees related to app execution and provides the system of incentives used to elect elect validators in a secure and decentralized manner.

 Founded in 2017, Orbs is being developed by a dedicated team of more than 30 people out of its offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, London, UK, Singapore, and Seoul, South Korea. Orbs was named Gartner’s “Cool Vendor in Blockchain Technology” for 2018.

https://www.orbs.com/

Moonstake is hosting a joint webinar with its strategic partner RockX on 16th of March, 2021 about the Polkadot Ecosystem and its value to the staking economy. It will be held from 7PM Singapore time. This is a rare opportunity to hear from the top staking validator for Polkadot about the key points of staking. We look forward to seeing you there.

Proof-of-Stake (POS) has become the topic of the hour since 2020 due the protocol receiving adoption by the biggest blockchain platforms like Ethereum, Cardano, and Polkadot, and has expanded rapidly over the past year. Polkadot, whose MainNet launched in May 2020, currently has $24 billion of its native token DOT staked, which is 64% of the total PoS market supply. Today, it is one of the fastest growing PoS networks and the second most active DeFi ecosystem after Ethereum.

Speakers of this webinar include RockX CEO and Founder, Alex Lam and Shogo Ishida, Senior Advisor of Moonstake. Moonstake and RockX entered a strategic partnership in January 2021 to support the Polkadot ecosystem and DOT staking on Moonstake Wallet.

RockX is a digital assets platform that offers risk-adjusted crypto investment for the masses and allows users to compound their crypto holdings through mining, staking, and other DeFi products. In September, they launched a USD 20 Million five-year investment program to strengthen the Polkadot ecosystem.The funding, capped at a maximum of USD 500,000 worth of DOT tokens per project, will be provided alongside technical support.

This webinar will be useful for those who want to learn more about Polkadot and other tokens from various PoS-based projects. There will be plenty of time for Q&A, so please feel free to ask any questions you may have.

About this webinar

TOPIC: Proof-of-Stake Economy and Polkadot Ecosystem from 2021 onwards

DATE & TIME: 16th of March, 7PM in Singapore time (GMT+8)

SPEAKERS:
Shogo Ishida, Senior Advisor of Moonstake
Alex Lam, CEO & Founder of RockX

IN THIS WEBINAR, YOU WILL LEARN:
– What is Polkadot and its unique proposition from Moonstake and RockX’s points of view as one of the top Polkadot’s validators?
– RockX launched a $20 million investment program for the Polkadot ecosystem. What is the final goal on this?

– Staking Economy is the topic of the hour across the globe. How you define it and what’s the value you see in 2021 for Polkadot？
– How will Polkadot play a role in the PoS ecosystem?
What is the value of participating in polkadot’s staking economy and how does Polkadot staking works?
– How will Moonstake and RockX enhance the Polkadot ecosystem as strategic partners and what are the expectations from Polkadot’s communities?
Q&A (20 Mins)

Pre-registration is required to participate, so please register from the link below. RSVP Today to take advantage of this free webinar.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kztN-BuYQh-nnsgFYUXVhA

About Moonstake

Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies.

Moonstake aims to be the largest staking pool network in Asia by providing an active environment for crypto asset holders. Establishing a clear partnership roadmap with Moonstake represents another significant milestone for continuing to strengthen ties with leading platforms across Asia’s burgeoning Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ecosystem. Partnership has been announced with Emurgo, Ontology and NEO to boost staking adoption, Binarystar, Japan’s biggest blockchain hub, OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO), a Singapore-listed company. Industry’s reputed advisors, such as Lisk and Lawrence Lim of RAMP DEFI support Moonstake’s innovative journey.

With a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, we expanded our business and as of now, our total staking assets exceeded over USD 800 Million.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About RockX

RockX is the smartest platform to participate in the growing digital asset economy by enabling anyone to capitalize on the emerging global asset class of digital assets and cryptocurrencies for the best risk-adjusted returns. RockX is a comprehensive digital asset platform where mainstream users can participate in the blockchain economy at a suitable risk-reward profile. RockX is the first of its kind in the market where users can diversify and be exposed to different digital assets in one simple interface.

https://www.rockx.com/

Moonstake will hold a joint webinar with Tokenize Xchange and Merkle Science about “CENTRALIZED OR DECENTRALIZED – How can institutions ensure their digital assets are safe and secure” on 24th of Feb, 2021.  It will be held from 3PM Singapore time.

It has been a remarkable year in which the cryptocurrency rose and some central banks together with financial institutions have started to recognise the potential of the cryptocurrency digital market, and are trying to adapt it at a country level.

However with the massive price surge and adoption, the need to secure the digital assets has become ever more important. Moreover, institutions might not be aware of the various platforms and setup, be it decentralized or centralized, available for them to store and earn yields from.

This webinar is a valuable opportunity to hear the opinions of experts about security at scale in digital asset management. So please come and join us.

About this Webinar:

TOPIC: “CENTRALIZED OR DECENTRALIZED – How can institutions ensure their digital assets are safe and secure”

DATE & TIME : 24th of Feb, 3PM in Singapore time (GMT+8)

SPEAKERS: 

• Lawrence Lin, CEO of Moonstake 
• Hong Qi Yu, CEO of Tokenize Exchange
• Ian Lee, VP of Business Development of Merkle Science

MODERATOR:  Roy Kek,Co-founder & Managing Director, DIFY

IN THIS WEBINAR, YOU WILL LEARN:

• What are the advantages of DeFi over traditional finance in order to encourage more allocation of assets from institutions?
• How does cryptocurrency and blockchain address the issues of privacy and cybersecurity pertaining to digital asset protection?
• What are some of the Non-Financial Risks in DeFi that you can share with investors?
• In a DeFi Scenario, What kind of implementation or security layer will help to reduce the risk of the platform being hacked or misused or system not responding due various reasons.

And more useful information from our panel of experts.

Pre-registration is required to participate, so please register from the link below. RSVP Today to take advantage of this free webinar.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1916069653140/WN_LQnCvkv5SIytQ8VMmOYOiA

About Moonstake

Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies.

Moonstake aims to be the largest staking pool network in Asia by providing an active environment for crypto asset holders. Establishing a clear partnership roadmap with Moonstake represents another significant milestone for continuing to strengthen ties with leading platforms across Asia’s burgeoning Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ecosystem. Partnership has been announced with Emurgo, Ontology and NEO to boost staking adoption, Binarystar, Japan’s biggest blockchain hub, OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO), a Singapore Catalist-Listed company. Industry’s reputed advisors, such as Lisk and Lawrence Lim of RAMP DEFI support Moonstake’s innovative journey.

With a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, we expanded our business and as of now, our total staking assets exceeded over USD 380 Million.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About Tokenize Xchange

Tokenize Xchange is a platform that enables users to buy and sell established and emerging digital currencies. It has received conditional approval from the Securities Commission Malaysia. As an approved platform, Tokenize Malaysia can now accept clients with its digital asset exchange being recognised as a safe and secure platform.

https://tokenizemalaysia.com/

About  Merkle Science

Merkle Science provides blockchain transaction monitoring and intelligence  solutions for crypto asset service providers, financial institutions and government agencies to detect, investigate and prevent money laundering, terrorist financing and other criminal activities. Merkle Science is headquartered in Singapore with offices in Bangalore and Tokyo and backed by Digital Currency Group, Kenetic, SGInnovate and LuneX.

http://merklescience.com

About DIFY Singapore

DIFY is Singapore’s leading integrated communications agency in the blockchain and financial technologies industry. Since its inception in June 2018, DIFY has worked with over 70 blockchain projects to meet their communication goals, which includes Binance, Wanchain, Huobi, Smart Dubai Government among others. While working on both local and regional projects, DIFY has also expanded its presence across Southeast Asia, with partnerships and expertise in Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

Website: https://dify.sg/

Moonstake held a joint webinar with Centrality, one of the world’s leading FinTech ventures based in New Zealand, on Sunday, December 13, 2020.

The webinar was a joint event between Moonstake and Centrality, which formed a strategic partnership in August this year. The webinar was held jointly with Centrality to announce the launch of CENNZ staking on Moonstake and to provide updates on Centrality. The webinar attracted a lot of interest from CENNZ holders, as Centrality’s token, CENNZ, is about to be swapped to the mainnet.

The first half of the webinar was an exclusive pre-recorded interview with Aaron McDonald, CEO and Co-Founder of Centrality, with Japanese subtitles, and the second half was a live discussion with Jerry Yuan, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Co-Founder. Both discussions were moderated by Shogo Ishida, Senior Advisor at Moonstake.

In this interview, Aaron talks about the features of Centrality and how it differs from other competitors. The following is an excerpt of the interview.

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Aaron: About Centrality

What are the features of Centrality?

I think Centrality is characterized by its ease of use.

The decentralization brought about by blockchain technology is intended to bring people together to participate in a new economy. Based on this premise, we at Centrality believe that the blockchain must be easy to use for everyone.

If you look at the design of CENNZnet, you will see that it is designed to be as easy to use as possible, which makes it special compared to other services.

There are some issues specific to blockchain, such as the market risk to the price of tokens when using the service, but we have adopted an algorithm that ensures a stable fee structure for the price of fees (gas) that are incurred when conducting transactions on the blockchain.

I think this is one of the core features that differentiates CENNZnet from other blockchains in optimizing usability.

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Progress on CENNZ Staking

The launch of CENNZ tokens with the migration to CENNZnet is coming soon.

The date when the swap will take place will be announced soon.

The reason for the delay in completing the swap is that we are working on confirming that our partner exchanges will be able to integrate and trade on the new CENNZ.

This will result in a switch from the ERC20 marketplace to the new CENNZnet version of the token. We are currently conducting an audit with the exchanges and testing for integration to make sure there are no technical issues.

We are also working with companies like Moonstake to prepare for the wallet integration and beyond to start staking. The next step for staking will be to open the tokens to the public and start staking as soon as our staking partners are satisfied with the results.

Swap and staking are two important milestones for CENNZ tokens, and as soon as these two steps are completed, we will focus on creating more applications.

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At the end of the interview, Aaron was asked, “What is your biggest milestone for 2021? and answered that Centrality would like to reach 1 million active users. Centrality has already achieved half of its goal and expects to achieve this goal early next year.

The second half of the session was a panel discussion with Jerry, Centrality CCO, who answered many questions from the participants. Among them, in response to the question, “What are your plans for 2021?” Jerry answered that “we are aiming to acquire one million new users. He also talked about his enthusiasm to further expand Centrality’s economic sphere in 2021.”

The webinar concluded with an announcement that the questions that could not be answered during the webinar would be delivered at a later date, as many people used the Zoom Q&A function to ask questions.

As mentioned by Mr. Ishida, Senior Advisor of Moonstake, Moonstake is planning to develop staking service on Moonstake platform as soon as possible after CENNZ’s CENNZnet launch. We will do our best to provide a highly convenient wallet for CENNZ holders, including those who attended the webinar.

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About Moonstake

Moonstake was established to develop a staking pool protocol to meet the growing demand for staking pools in Asia and globally.

Moonstake’s goal is to become the largest staking pool network in Asia. We have expanded our partnerships with major projects such as Emurgo, Ontology, NEO, PundiX, Wanchain, Quras and others to build an ecosystem that leads Asia. We have partnered with Binarystar, Japan’s largest blockchain hub, and OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO), a Singapore-listed Catalist company. Our advisors include LISK, a global project, and other prominent players in the project.

The company has expanded its business with the launch of full-scale operations in August, and as of November, its total staking assets are approaching 10 billion yen.

https://moonstake.io/ja/

About Centrality

Centrality is the world’s leading fintech venture platform based in New Zealand, and is funded by the New Zealand government through Digital Identity NZ, an organization that brings the private and government sectors together to make digital identity easier and more secure. Centrality has received a research grant from the New Zealand government and is working with NZTech, Singlesource and others to create a decentralized system with the New Zealand government through its participation in Digital Identity NZ, an organization that brings together the private and government sectors to make digital identity easier and more secure.

https://centrality.ai/

On the 12th of December 2020, Japan’s largest blockchain incubation hub, Binarystar, will host the Business Blockchain Expo following September Expo. For this Expo, Moonstake is now sponsoring the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) section and will serve as a gateway to introduce prominent DeFi projects to the Japanese market.

Business Blockchain Expo is a business matching event organized by Binarystar that connects domestic and overseas blockchain operators with Japanese industry. In the “DeFi section” sponsored by Moonstake, the invited speakers are from the forefront of the defi industry such as  MakerDAO, NEO Flamingo, and Zilliqa, the world’s most advanced technologies and projects in DeFi. There will be a wide range of discussions on what the DeFi community expects on the Japan market from a DeFi perspective. 

Currently, DeFi is the hottest area in the blockchain industry. The expansion of the DeFi ecosystem has been huge. Since the beginning of this year, DeFi’s total locks were US $ 1 billion at the end of 2019 and now growing to over $14 billion.  Along with staking, which is expected to grow over the $50billion market with the spread of Proof of Stake (PoS) where strong growth is expected.

Moonstake will take the innovative technology of blockchain further by integrating service development through staking with DeFi. Starting with the sponsorship of this DeFi section for the Business Blockchain Expo, we will contribute to raising awareness of DeFi in the Japan market and creating new business opportunities.

<Unique point of Business Blockchain Expo 2020>

① Blockchain utilization specialists can take the stage and ask questions directly

In this Expo. SBI R3, which is promoting the introduction of blockchain to the supply chain and financial industry in Japan, and Standard Capital, which is leading the introduction of blockchain in the real estate and digital securities fields, and blockchain in the non-financial field, will be introduced.  

Specialists who promote industrial reform, such as CryptoPie Co. Ltd, which provides new business development support / business improvement support will be on stage. Questions and individual consultation requests to the companies can be made directly from  the viewing platform (YouTube Live), the homepage of the business blockchain Expo, or the input to the audience questionnaire directly.

②Due to Coronavirus situation, Expo will be held via online

All audiences can be joined via online in consideration of safe and secure holding in the Coronavirus. Therefore, you can participate from anywhere in the country. Also, because it uses YouTube Live distribution, you can watch video again for the part that you missed during speech and control the speed.

③Project connection support / business matching  support

In response to the expansion of DeFi in the future, Moonstake will provide the latest trends and information on DeFi projects and will support your business.

In addition, Binarystar offers improvement proposals specific to the issues faced by participants and solutions that connect professional teams. You can use it as an opportunity to make your future business development more concrete.

<Outline of the event>

・ Date and time: Saturday, December 12, 2020 9:00-20:00(Japan Time)

・ Location: Online

・ Cost: Free 

・ Registration via Peatix : https://businessblockchainexpo20201212.peatix.com/

・ Registration via Doorkeeper: https://blockchainexpo2020.doorkeeper.jp/events/112468

＜List of Project on DeFi section ＞

■Aelf blockchain/ Sashimiswap

・Topic：DEFI – The biggest application on blockchain

・Speaker：Chen Zhuling（COO）

・HP：http://aelf.io

・About Aelf：Aelf is an innovative open-source blockchain network designed as a complete business solution. The structure of ‘one main chain + multiple side chains’ allows developers to independently deploy or run DApps (Distributed Applications) on individual side chains to achieve effective resource isolation.

■Centrality

・Topic：Making DeFi available to everyone

・Speaker：Aaron McDonald（CEO）

・HP：https://centrality.ai/

・About Centrality：Centrality is the leading FinTech venture platform. It received a research grant from the New Zealand government and is 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.In August of this year, Centrapay, a venture company from Centrality, announced the technology offering to purchase Coca-Cola products at BTC using Sylo’s smart wallet.

■NEO Flamingo

・Topic：Building the smart economy of tomorrow: DeFi and Neo3

・Speaker：John Wang （NGD/Flamingo Director）

・HP：https://flamingo.finance/

・About NEO Flamingo：Flamingo (FLM) is a full-stack DeFi protocol,  integrating cross-chain asset gateways, AMM-based swaps, synthetic stablecoins and perpetual contracts. The project aims to be a swiss army knife for the entire NEO ecosystem, as it combines the functionalities of Yearn Finance, Uniswap, Maker, Synthetix, and Ren under one roof. NEO Flamingo is delivering optimized user experiences by integrating platforms for improved liquidity, capital efficiency, and reduced investor risk. 

■Moonstake

・Topic：Accelerating connection from staking to DeFi

・Speaker：Lawrence Lin,(CEO)

・HP：https://www.moonstake.io/

・About Moonstake：Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies. Moonstake aims to be the largest staking pool network in Asia by providing an active environment for crypto asset holders. Establishing a clear partnership roadmap with Moonstake represents another significant milestone for continuing to strengthen ties with leading platforms across Asia’s burgeoning Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ecosystem. Partnership has been announced with Emurgo, Ontology and NEO to boost staking adoption, Binarystar, Japan’s biggest blockchain hub, OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO), a Singapore Catalist-Listed company. Industry’s reputed advisors, such as Lisk and Lawrence Lim of RAMP DEFI support Moonstake’s innovative journey. With the full-scale operation in August, we expanded our business and as of November, our total staking assets exceeded over $90Million.

■MakerDao

・Topic：MakerDAO and DAI – The Backbone of Decentralized Finance

・Speaker：Kathleen Chu （Maker Foundation/Japan Community Lead）

・HP：https://makerdao.com/

・About MakerDao：Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain seeking to minimize the price volatility of its own stable token — the Dai — against the U.S. Dollar. MakerDAO is made up of a smart contract service that manages borrowing and lending, as well as two currencies: DAI and MKR to regulate the value of loans. MakerDAO is a part of the “DeFi” movement – a catch-all term for financial tools and services that don’t rely on centralized parties to coordinate and control access.

■RockX

・Topic：How to increase revenue by liquidity mining

・Speaker：Alex Lam（CEO）

・HP：https://www.rockx.com/ 

・About RockX：RockX is a digital assets service platform that enables anyone to capitalize on the emerging global asset class of cryptocurrencies for the best risk-adjusted returns through mining and staking services. With our industry experience in the digital asset economy and unrivalled operational expertise in Bitcoin mining from managing large-scale Bitcoin mining farms since 2013, RockX is the smartest platform to participate in the growing digital asset economy with a secure and seamless experience.

■Ruby Capital

・Topic：The trend of decentralised financial market : crypto asset management

・Speaker：Panjun Wang（Director）

・HP：https://rubycapital.sg/ 

・About Ruby Capital：Ruby Capital Pte Ltd., is a licensed venture capital fund manager regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The team employs industrial professionals and specialists in Singapore, Japan and China. Ruby partners with BinaryStar, Infinity Blockchain Group and others from China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Europe with strong connections in Finance, IT Technology, Incubators, Education and Supply Chain industries. Ruby capital invests in artificial intelligence, data analytics, Fintech, consumer technology innovations, distributed ledger technologies (DLT), extended realities, quantum computing and other high-potential innovations.

■Zilliqa

・Topic：What does DeFi mean to me

・Speaker：Colin Miles (Chief Commercial Officer and Co-CEO) & Lisa JY Tan (Founder & Lead Economist)

・HP：https://www.zilliqa.com/  

・About Zilliqa：Zilliqa is a new blockchain platform that is designed to scale in an open, permission-less distributed network securely. The core feature that makes Zilliqa scalable is sharding — dividing the network into several smaller component networks (called shards) capable of processing transactions in parallel.

About Moonstake

Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies. 

Moonstake aims to create the largest staking pool network in Asia, a robust environment for the cryptocurrency holders is one of its missions. Establishing a clear partnership roadmap with Moonstake represents another significant milestone for continuing to strengthen ties with leading platforms across Asia’s burgeoning Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ecosystem. partnership has been announced with Emurgo, Ontology and NEO to boost staking adoption, Binarystar, Japan’s biggest blockchain hub, OIO Holdings Limited (SGX: OIO), a Singapore Catalist-Listed company. Industry’s reputed advisors, such as Lisk and Lawrence Lim of RAMP DEFI support Moonstake’s innovative journey.

https://www.moonstake.io/