SINGAPORE; 9 April 2021 – Moonstake is proud to announce the beginning of a strategic partnership with Sylo, a decentralised software development firm and the creators of the Sylo Network and Sylo Smart Wallet.

Through this collaboration, Moonstake will connect Sylo with their robust API/SDK solution, thereby enabling staking functionalities in the Sylo Smart Wallet and allowing Sylo users to earn passive income from their idle crypto assets. Additionally, Moonstake and Sylo will also collaborate to spread awareness about blockchain and decentralised technologies through joint marketing initiatives.

This partnership is exciting for Sylo as it will see their over 400,000 users across more than 80 countries gain access to staking functionalities powered by Moonstake from within their flagship app, the Sylo Smart Wallet.

Founded in 2010, Sylo is committed to decentralisation and has created an ecosystem consisting of digital consumer wallet software, applications, infrastructure and developer tools in order to usher in a decentralised future worth looking forward to.

A unique wallet app that combines digital asset management with decentralised communication, the Sylo Smart Wallet is a savvy decentralised e-wallet that enables users to purchase, store, track, send, and receive crypto assets, explore the world of Ethereum dApps by means of a Web3 Browser, pay with cryptocurrency in the real world, and provides secure communicate with friends and family by chat or audio/video call.

Born over a year ago with the aim to create the largest staking network in Asia, since its inception Moonstake has developed highly user-friendly wallets for both Web and Mobile (iOS / Android) that are compatible with over 2000 cryptocurrencies. After a full-scale operational launch in August 2020, Moonstake’s total staking assets have grown rapidly to reach USD 800 Million in staked assets over just six months. Within a year of its founding, Moonstake became ranked in the top 10 of the world’s premier staking service providers and it continues to strongly expand its business.

Mitsuru Tezuka, the Founder of Moonstake, says of the partnership: “The Sylo Smart Wallet is an interesting e-wallet that combines the functionality of a flexible digital asset management tool and a secure instant messaging app. We are happy to help proper crypto projects like Sylo enable staking in their wallet so that users can have more ways to earn with crypto. With a wide selection of PoS coins and attractive yield rates from our high-quality staking pools, we are confident that users will be pleased with their staking experience on Sylo powered by Moonstake.”

Dorian Johannink, Co-Founder and Business Director of Sylo, says: “We’re pleased to offer our community of global users yet another way to access the benefits of crypto. As always, our user flow has been designed with simplicity in mind and staking via Moonstake in the Sylo Smart Wallet will make earning from digital assets simple enough for people everywhere.”

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 Centrality 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 Sylo

Sylo is a New Zealand-based software development house founded in 2010. Committed to decentralisation, they are the core developers of the Sylo Network, the Sylo Protocol and the Sylo Smart Wallet. A next-gen app, the Sylo Smart Wallet sleekly combines a digital asset wallet with a decentralised private messenger. The app allows users to request and receive payments in chat, purchase, store and interact with digital assets such as BTC, ETH, XTZ, or any ERC-20 compatible token like SYLO, in a non-custodial wallet, utilise a Web3 Ethereum dApp browser, and pay using cryptocurrency in the real world. For further announcements, follow Sylo on Twitter, Medium or visit www.sylo.io.

Download the Sylo Smart Wallet from the Google Play or Apple App stores.

Today, Moonstake is proud to announce the entry into the DeFi market together with Muse.Finance.

The Staking and DeFi Boom in 2020, Top Staking Provider Moonstake Joins The DeFi Space

In January, 2021, Moonstake officially announced its entry to the DeFi sector. Today, with over 800 million USD in total staking assets, Moonstake is the top 8 biggest staking provider in the world. In less than one year since launch, Moonstake achieved rapid growth in both product development and a strong positioning in the market. Moving towards the DeFi sector, Moonstake welcomes applications from DeFi products looking to connect to its powerful staking network.

Though the concept was almost unknown back in 2019, the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has experienced an explosive growth in 2020. According to DeFi Pulse, while it took almost two years for DeFi deposits to reach USD 1 Billion in Total Locked Value (TVL) as of Q4 2019, it took less than six months (March to July 2020) for DeFi TVL to spike from ~USD 550 million to ~USD 4 billion (~727% increase). Today, the DeFi TVL sits at $42.6 billion.

As of 29 March 2021, the market cap of all Proof-of-Stake (PoS) protocols is $450 billion and the total value locked in staking is $127.66 billion. In August 2020 when interest in DeFi was rapidly increasing, it was forecasted it should take from 3 to 5 years for the value of staked assets to surpass $100 billion due to increasing adoption of PoS grows, but it was achieved within only a year.

What is Muse.Finance and How Does It Fit into The Moonstake Ecosystem?

Muse.Finance is a Decentralized Platform where crypto users can receive staking rewards while gaining interests of lending through wrapped assets, and at the same time participating in the yield farming. Its ecosystem, which consists of Muse Swap, Muse Lending, and Muse Wrap, enables a liquid PoS platform that integrates the ERC-20 DeFi Ecosystem with Ethereum 2.0, starting from Cardano and expanding to Polkadot, Solana, Oasis, Terra, Centrality, and more using advanced cross-chain technology.

Muse.Finance initially links non ERC-20 assets with the ERC-20 ecosystem, allowing owners of staked assets on platforms such as Cosmos, IRISnet, Cardano, etc. to participate in lending, liquidity mining, and yield farming, which eventually enables connecting other chains. The platform will also be highly scalable thanks to being linked to the staking pools operated by Moonstake. Having completed its PoC, Muse.Finance currently has a working MVP and along with its Roadmap, wrapper and swapping will be launched in May 2021, and the yield farming and the lending functionality will be added within this year. The concept paper of Muse.Finance is available here.

Muse.Finance is a project by Shogo Ishida, the Senior Advisor of Moonstake. He is also known as former CEO of QRC, the esteemed blockchain and RegTech firm that sponsored the world’s first Security Token Specification provides for the technical specification and cross-blockchain publication of security tokens, covering tokens issued on any distributed ledger system, independently facilitated and published by BSI, the UK National Standards Body.

Shogo Ishida, the Founder of Muse.Finance says: “Lending, liquidity mining, and yield farming are all high-demand applications of DeFi today. Muse.Finance has been developed to enable the community access to these valuable DeFi services within a robust ecosystem with world-class scalability thanks to integration with the Moonstake staking pools as official partners. After much hard work, we’re excited to finally show you the value of Muse.Finance this year. Please look forward to Muse.Finance’s major roadmap developments throughout this year.”

Mitsuru Tezuka, Founder of Moonstake says: “Moonstake is entering the DeFi market with Muse DeFi to facilitate and expand access to DeFi by working to resolve staking illiquidity. We will also be widely accepting applications from DeFi products that wish to connect to the Moonstake platform. As one of the top 10 global staking providers trusted by investors and wallet users across the globe, Moonstake’s connection with DeFi through Muse.finance will support the development and dissemination of high-quality DeFi products through our powerful network.”

Looking Ahead

The launch of Muse.Finance marks Moonstake’s first entry to the DeFi market with a unique cross-chain platform that enables people to participate in valuable applications of DeFi including lending, liquidity mining, and yield farming.

Muse.Finance will launch its first products in May, Wrapper and Swapping. Then, it will gradually reinforce its DeFi platform with Lending Platform and Yield Farming within this year. The roadmap is available here.

Learn more about Muse.Finance here: https://musefinance.io/

About Muse.Finance

Muse.Finance is a Decentralized Platform where crypto users can receive staking rewards as well as participate in wrapping, swapping, lending, and yield farming to gain benefit. Its ecosystem, which consists of Muse Swap, Muse Lending, and Muse Wrap, enables a liquid PoS platform that integrates the ERC-20 DeFi Ecosystem with Ethereum 2.0, starting from Cardano and expanding to Polkadot, Solana, Oasis, Terra, Centrality, and more using advanced cross-chain technology. Muse.Finance also links non ERC-20 assets with the ERC-20 ecosystem, allowing owners of staked assets on platforms such as Cosmos, IRISnet, Cardano, etc. to participate in lending, liquidity mining, and yield farming. 

musefinance.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-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/

Moonstake has recently joined forces with Unido, a leading crypto custody service and enterprise platform powered by Polkadot, continuing to strengthen its market position as a leading staking platform that supports the Polkadot ecosystem.

Through this partnership, Unido clients will gain access to the staking pools of Moonstake to easily and securely stake their crypto assets via the Unido DeFi Vault to generate additional yield on their investments. Currently Moonstake supports staking for Cosmos, IRISnet, Ontology, Harmony, Tezos, Cardano, Qtum, Polkadot, Quras and Centrality assets.

Meanwhile, investors from the Moonstake platform, especially institutional clients, will be able to enjoy a robust custody solution that allows them to play in DeFi with the corporate governance controls they require in order to invest. By combining our efforts, Moonstake and Unido can provide an infrastructure to enable enterprises and hedge funds to participate in the growing DeFi sector while exponentially expanding their client bases together.

Moonstake started in the staking business last year with the aim to create the largest staking network in Asia. Since then, Moonstake has developed the most user-friendly wallets for both Web Wallet and Mobile Wallet (iOS / Android) that are compatible with over 2000 cryptocurrencies. After a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, Moonstake’s total staking assets have grown rapidly to reach USD 800 Million in staked assets in 6 months. Within a year of its founding, Moonstake has been ranked in the top 10 of the world’s staking service providers and it continues to expand its business strongly. Moonstake officially supported staking of Polkadot’s native token, DOT, since the beginning of January, 2021.

Led by a highly experienced team from Macquarie Bank, Wipro and Goldman Sachs, Unido is the first enterprise-grade asset management platform being built on Polkadot and features apps already available in the App Store. It is incubated by the team behind AllianceBlock, SpiderDAO, and Bridge Mutual, and supported by Strategic Partner, DuckDAO. Since the beginning of this month, March 2021, Unido’s proprietary token, UDO, became available for trading on global exchanges.

When asked about the new partnership, Lawrence Lin, CEO of Moonstake, commented: “Moonstake appreciates the trust Unido has in our staking solution to utilize our SDK API connection, and we look forward to collaborating further with them to spread awareness and accelerate the adoption of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies globally.”

Unido’s CCO Michael Swan stated: “Unido is committed to delivering a diverse marketplace of DeFi options within the Unido EP dashboard. I’m very excited to include Moonstake staking pools in our dashboard, given their strong market position and compelling yield performance to date. We look forward to providing enterprise-grade custody solutions to encourage further enterprise and hedge fund delegations to Moonstake’s platform.”

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 Unido

Unido is an enterprise platform for decentralized capital markets. It enables institutions & corporate clients to securely store, manage and invest their crypto assets into decentralized finance networks. Unido is underpinned by proprietary key signing technology that provides enterprise-grade security for any transaction which utilizes it.

Founded in 2017 and with a market-ready product, Unido is led by an experienced team of ex-Goldman Sachs, ex-Macquarie and ex-Wipro with decades of experience in enterprise software development, financial services and agency blockchain development.

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Moonstake announces today that it has signed an MOU with Orbs, a hybrid blockchain infrastructure with enterprise-grade scale, security, and support.

Through this collaboration, Moonstake will soon support the staking of ORBS, Orbs’ official token, on Moonstake Wallet, as well as participate further in the Orbs blockchain ecosystem. The two parties will also host community building programs, research, training, events, and conferences with the goal to increase awareness and adoption of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology in the Banking and Finance Industry. Moonstake and Orbs will discuss further potential provision of consulting services to financial institutions in the regions of Southeast Asia and Middle East.

Moonstake started in the staking business last year with the aim to create the largest staking network in Asia. Since then, Moonstake has developed the most user-friendly wallets for both Web Wallet and Mobile Wallet (iOS / Android) that are compatible with over 2000 cryptocurrencies. After a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, Moonstake’s total staking assets have grown rapidly to reach USD 800 Million in staked assets in 6 months. Within a year of its founding, Moonstake became ranked in the top 10 of the world’s staking service providers and it continues to expand its business strongly.

Meanwhile, Orbs is a prominent hybrid network with a focus on converting businesses to blockchain. The company has partnered with industry leaders from both traditional and decentralized technology sectors, such as IBM and Consensys respectively, to bring blockchain to the field of telecommunications. ORBS, the native token that fuels all activities on the Orbs blockchain including smart contracts, transaction fees, and consensus-based storage is currently ranked #5 in the Top 10 trending crypto coins by CryptoCrunchApp. 

Orbs’ vision is to build digital trust at scale by turning the trust-enabling technology of blockchain into a viable competitive strategy for businesses worldwide. By entering into a strategic partnership with Moonstake, the two companies can collaborate to  accelerate global awareness and adoption of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies in the field of finance together.

Mitsuru Tezuka, Founder at Moonstake says:

“We are very pleased to be a partner with Orbs, the biggest blockchain company in Israel. Moonstake provides easy access for staking globally. Together, we can accelerate global awareness and adoption of blockchain technology for both users and businesses.”

Daniel Peled, Co-founder and CEO at Orbs says:

“Orbs is thrilled to be partnered with Moonstake, one of the top 10 staking providers in the world. Through this partnership, we will accelerate the adoption of decentralized technologies and services in the field of finance for the Southeast Asia and the Middle Eastern market.”

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 designed for mass

usage applications, providing enterprise-grade scale, security and support. Orbs

blockchain network expands the offerings of public blockchains by supporting

permissioned applications developed by existing for-profit businesses, while also

supporting purely decentralized apps and being a prime platform for launching

decentralized finance applications. 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/

Today, Moonstake announces its partnership with Escaroo, a keyless blockchain-based peer-to-peer escrow service that offers an advanced smart contract solution for high profile individual and commercial clients within the real-estate, aviation and marine space.

Through this strategic collaboration, Moonstake will help enable staking functionality for Escaroo escrow platform, providing its users a new way to control and earn with their cryptocurrencies. As a leading staking pool platform with a strong lineup of supported digital assets and hundreds of millions assets staked, Moonstake is thrilled to support yet another esteemed institution in the industry, accelerating the connection of staking to decentralized finance. Escaroo users will soon be able to earn passive income from staking within the Cardano and Tezos ecosystems.

With the goal to help people safely create and manage crypto transactions, Escaroo utilizes its proprietary, US-patented smart contracts to facilitate transactions where funds are only released when all parties are in agreement. This allows Escaroo users to maintain funds securely within a unique individually created smart contract that is irreversible once posted to the blockchain and can only be accessed by the parties involved. Transactions are hosted on a public blockchain so one, not even Escaroo, has the ability to access funds outside of the terms set by the parties involved, putting the control of funds back into the users hands.

Lawrence Lin, CEO of Moonstake comments on the partnership: “Investors, especially in the  crypto space, are always looking for security and profitability without compromising their own convenience. We are happy to help Escaroo enable staking on their esteemed escrow platform so that Escaroo users not only can enjoy secure transactions but also earn from their idle funds on the DeFi platform of their choice. With a wide selection of PoS coins and attractive yield rates from our high-quality staking pools, we are confident that users will be pleased with their staking experience on Escaroo powered by Moonstake. By partnering with an esteemed institution, Moonstake is going strong on our journey to accelerate the growth of staking.”

“Adding staking to our platform is a natural progression for Escaroo, as it empowers our clients to put their money to work for them. They can now earn a percentage on everything they stake, thus creating a passive income stream on their investments. Being able to partner with Moonstake to bring this vision to fruition was a no brainer. With over $800 Million in assets currently being staked, it is clear Moonstake understands what’s needed to succeed in this extremely competitive world of Decentralized Finance. We are excited to be at the forefront of this brave new world of finance with them”, said Frank Pira, Founder and CEO of Escaroo.

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 Centrality 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 Escaroo

Escaroo is the safest Bitcoin and cryptocurrency escrow payment service in the world. Buy or sell anything with confidence knowing your funds are secure when using our decentralized peer-to-peer platform for personal, small business, commercial or letter-of-credit transactions.

https://escaroo.com/ 

Moonstake has entered into a partnership with Cocoricos, a provider of a DeFi platform that enables passive income through staking and liquidity mining.

Cocoricos is a DeFi platform that simplifies Token Explorers through liquidity pooling and staking. Through this partnership, Cocoricos’s end users will have access to Moonstake’s Cardano (ADA) and Tezos (XTZ) staking pools.

Moonstake started in the staking business last year with the aim to create the largest staking network in Asia. Since then, Moonstake has developed the most user-friendly wallets for both Web Wallet and Mobile Wallet (iOS / Android) that are compatible with over 2000 cryptocurrencies. After a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, Moonstake’s total staking assets have grown rapidly to reach USD 200 Million in staked assets in 6 months. Within a year of its founding, Moonstake was ranked in the top 20 of the world’s 1,692 staking service providers and it continues to expand.

Moonstake has been actively promoting staking in the market through partnerships with public PoS blockchain projects. Until now, Moonstake has partnered with 11 blockchain projects such as Cardano’s constituent organization Emurgo, Ontology and more.

Mitsuru Tezuka, Founder at Moonstake says:

“Cocoricos has created an easy way for users to earn rewards through high level liquidity pools and staking.  Our partnership integration can create synergies by jointly driving staking activity and we look forward to working together on a variety of areas including DeFi.”

Mehdi Radi, CEO at Cocoricos says: 

 “Cocoricos is proud of this key partnership with Moonstake. Users want to be able to easily stake their coins by using a proven staking infrastructure like Moonstake, and I think they can meet the expectations of Cocoricos users. “

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 210 Million.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About Cocoricos

We at COCORICOS, are driven to challenge the status quo and create a new standard for generating passive income with digital assets.

Our primary goal is to fix and improve crypto rewarding and earning with the vision to make the blockchain space a safer place accessible to all crypto holders.

https://cocoricos.io/

Moonstake has entered into a strategic partnership with Stake Technologies, which develops the Plasma Network, the world’s first successful connection to Polkadot’s testnet parachain.

Through this partnership, Moonstake and Stake Technologies  will work together to expand the Polkadot ecosystem. Also, both pirates will proactively discuss potential implementation of the staking of Plasm Network Token, PLM, onto Moonstake’s staking platform and possibility of  collaboration in the DeFi space.

Moonstake started in the staking business last year with the aim to create the largest staking network in Asia. Since then, Moonstake has developed the most user-friendly wallets for both Web Wallet and Mobile Wallet (iOS / Android) that are compatible with over 2000 cryptocurrencies. After a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, Moonstake’s total staking assets have grown rapidly to reach USD 200 Million in staked assets in 6 months. Within a year of its founding, Moonstake was ranked in the top 20 of the world’s 1,692 staking service providers and it continues to expand.

In January 2021, Moonstake added Polkadot’s staking service to further enhance the staking of one of the top 5 cryptocurrencies in market capitalisation after 8 other coins. Since Moonstake launched its support of staking Polkadot’s cryptocurrency (DOT), it successfully achieved a staking volume of 15,000 DOT during its test launch period. At the same time, to accelerate the spread of Polkadot in the blockchain industry through staking, Moonstake has also entered into a strategic partnership with RockX, one of Polkadot’s world’s leading node operators to support the ever-growing Polkadot ecosystem together.

Plasm Network is a public blockchain that can implement a Layer2 scalability solution that is scheduled to be connected to Polkadot, a blockchain that connects other blockchains. And it realizes “high speed processing of transactions” that could not be possible until now. There are growing expectations for the use of technologies in payment, IoT and games. In addition, since Polkadot (Relaychain) itself does not support smart contracts, Plasm Network, an Ethereum-compatible application platform with high processing performance will play an important role in the Polkadot ecosystem.

After the launch of Polkadot’s mainnet, Plasm Network has become the world’s first successful connection to Rococo V1, Polkadot testet on 13 Jan 2021. They have received grants 6 times from the Web3 Foundation (a global blockchain foundation founded by Dr. Gavin Wood, and flagship project of Polkadot).

Plasm Network has been selected by Parity Technologies, one of the world’s most prominent blockchain developers and a member of the initial Substrate Builders Program. It has collaborated with major leading players in the market such as Chainlink, a decentralized provider of Oracle and Zenlink, a cross-chain DEX protocol as well as academic institutions such as world famous UC Berkeley. This project has become one of the most high-profile in the blockchain industry.

Mitsuru Tezuka, Founder at Moonstake says:

“We are very pleased to partner with Stake Technologies and the Plasm Network and its development. The company’s development progress and industry presence over the past two years including the world’s first connection to Polkadot’s testnet is remarkable. We look forward to working with them on a product that will be used by users around the world in a variety of areas including DeFi as well as being highly compatible with Moonstake’s business with Polkadot.”

Sota Watanabe, Founder at Stake Technologies says:

“Since our company was established, we have been involved in the open source development of Polkadot that we believe will be the foundation for the next generation Web 3.0. We also recognize that there are high expectations from the world for the Plasm Network since it was  launched in mid-2020. The network has been getting attention from around the world and establishing a presence in the ecosystem.

Staking is obviously the core function of PoS public blockchain like Polkadot and Plasm Network. We hope that our users use Moonstake to stake PLM tokens and we will do our best to provide them with our best services.”

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 210 Million.

https://www.moonstake.io/

About Stake Technologies

Stake Technologies is a company that makes core decentralized protocols to make Web3.0 happen. Stake Technologies builds applications using the Plasm Network, a public blockchain developed by the company. It develops blockchain for enterprises, and provides consulting services. Stake Technologies, the core development company behind Plasm Network, provides fast and comprehensive support to the selected companies for building enterprise-grade use cases on the top of Plasm Network. It also collaborates with Chainlink, a provider of distributed oracles for blockchain.

https://stake.co.jp/service/

Moonstake has entered into a strategic partnership with Singapore-based RockX to support the Polkadot ecosystem. RockX aims to develop the Polkadot ecosystem. It not only runs its own Polkadot’s node, but in September, launched a USD 20 Million five-year investment program. Through this partnership, Moonstake and RockX will accelerate the spread of Polkadot in the blockchain industry through staking.

Moonstake started in the staking business last year with the aim to create the largest staking network in Asia. Moonstake has developed both Web wallets and Mobile wallets(iOS / Android) providing staking services. After a full-scale operation launched in August 2020, Moonstake’s total staking assets grew rapidly to reach USD 50 Million. By December, staking assets grew to USD 100 Million. Currently, Moonstake has over USD 200 Million in staked assets.

In Jan of this year, Moonstake announced the support of staking Polkadot’s cryptocurrency  in Moonstake’s Wallet. DOT is top 5 cryptocurrencies by market cap. After Cosmos, IRISnet, Ontology, Harmony, Tezos, Cardano and Qtum, DOT became the 9th available coin on Moonstake Web 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. Recently, RockX announced that they launched a USD20 Million investment program for 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.

Polkadot is a next-generation blockchain protocol connecting multiple specialized blockchains into one unified network. Polkadot is the flagship project of「Web3 Foundation」, the world’s leading blockchain foundation founded by Ethereum co-founder and former CTO Dr. Gavin Wood. In addition to Dr. Wood, other key members include Dr. Aeron Buchanan, former Head of European Operations at Ethereum, and Reto Trinkler, co-founder of Melonport.

As of January 2021, 63% of the total supply or $6 billion of DOTs have been staked since Polkadot’s mainnet launched in May 2020. The price of DOT, the native token of Polkadot and a cross-chain protocol for data and asset interoperability has risen more than 40% in December 2020 after two confidence votes by Binance, the largest crypto exchange by spot trading volume and placing it at ranking 5 cryptocurrencies by the market cap.

Mitsuru Tezuka, Founder at Moonstake says:

“We are very pleased to partner with RockX, one of Polkadot’s world’s leading node operators. Moving forward, we believe our partnership with RockX will enable us to mark a new page in the Asian staking industry. And we are confident that we can support the ever-growing Polkadot ecosystem together. Welcome RockX to our staking partnership family”

Alex Lam, CEO & Founder at RockX says:

“We are pleased to be partnering with Moonstake who is fast becoming a world leader in staking technologies. Moonstake and RockX will continue to push the boundaries together to improve access to blockchain services and focus further on the growth of our Polkadot ecosystem.”

The partnership also includes the appointment of RockX’s CEO Alex Lam as an official advisor to Moonstake.

Profile of Alex Lim

PhD in financial engineering, founded RockMiner – a Bitcoin mining machine manufacturer, in 2013. RockMiner has been focusing on POW mining and one-stop mining investment services since its establishment, serving customers in Europe, Singapore, Dubai, India and other countries and regions. Alex is also one of the founders of RockX, a PoS service and development platform established in Singapore in early 2019. Currently, RockX mainly operates Polkadot, Terra, Solana,Oasis, IOTX and other nodes, and participates in the application development of Algorand, Oasis and other projects. In the past few years, Alex has invested in multiple projects in different sectors of the industry, maintaining his dual identity as entrepreneur and investor.

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 210 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/

We are pleased to announce that Moonstake and Binarystar entered into a strategic partnership with TZ Ventures from South Korea accelerating industry adoption of staking within Tezos’s ecosystem. 

Moonstake is an advanced technology company with specific focuses on blockchain and staking technologies to build Asia’s Biggest Staking Network. Moonstake was established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets.  Signature products include Moonstake Web Wallet along with Moonstake Mobile Wallet（iOS / Android) enabling full staking functions and to be an all-in-one gateway for users to maximize the usage and potential of cryptocurrencies. Currently, Moonstake’s staking pool supports Cosmos, IRISnet, Ontology, Harmony, Cardano, QTUM and supports Tezos thereby providing current users with the flexible option to adopt Tezos for staking purposes. 

Moonstake users have the ability to use their Tezos Asset (XTZ) to earn rewards through its website based staking pool. With Tezos, the active community will be able to stake their coins on the Moonstake platform. Unlike other cryptocurrencies to stake, if you have more than 1 XTZ, you can get connected with a validator and are eligible to receive rewards. To perform staking with Moonstake, you need to create an account and stake at Moonstake Web Wallet. At this time, the transaction fee will be charged.  Rewards are automatically handed out based on the tokens you have in your wallet. The entire quantity held in the wallet will continue to be staked. You are free to send and receive tokens in your wallet at any time, even while staking. There is no lockout period.

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 office space, technical support, mentoring, marketing, partnerships, fund-raising and more.

Tezos is a technology for deploying a blockchain capable of modifying its own set of rules with minimal disruption to the network through an on-chain governance model. Unlike Bitcoin, Tezos does not rely on mining (Proof of Work), but instead utilizes a Proof-of-Stake based consensus model. At Tezos, all stakeholders can participate in managing the protocol. The selection cycle offers a formal and systematic procedure for stakeholders to agree on proposed protocol changes. By combining this in-chain mechanism with self-change, Tezos can change this initial selection process to adopt better management mechanisms as soon as it is realized. At Tezos, all stakeholders can participate in managing the protocol. The selection cycle offers a formal and systematic procedure for stakeholders to agree on proposed protocol changes. By combining this in-chain mechanism with self-change, Tezos can change this initial selection process to adopt better management mechanisms as soon as it is realized.

Moonstake will work closely with Jaywon Lee, Director of TZ Ventures and Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons, Scientific Advisor of TZ Ventures. 

Jaywon Lee, Director of TZ Ventures:

Jaywon is the Director for TZ Ventures which is a Tezos-centric incubator for start-ups seeking to use the Tezos blockchain protocol. TZ Ventures helps start-ups to achieve technical, business and organizational milestones during the intensive incubation program to prepare for the demo day. He is also a business school professor and teaches accounting and entrepreneurship in the undergraduate, MBA and corporate programs. He has extensive experience in establishing and incubating start-up companies which span a wide spectrum of industries (AR/VR, bio/medical, blockchain, cybersecurity, De-Fi, E-commerce, entertainment, fin-tech, green energy, logistics, mobile health and prop-tech) in multinational locations (Chile, France, Hong Kong, Korea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, UAE, UK, US and Vietnam). He is also an author of a best-selling IT book in Korea titled, “How to become a blockchain company”. He earned his BS at U.C. Berkeley, completed the MS program at Purdue University and received his PhD at Columbia University.

Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons, Scientific Advisor of TZ Ventures:

Diego Olivier Fernandez Pons has been advising Tezos on scientific topics since 2014. He is a founding board member of the Tezos Foundation. While he was a board member of the Tezos Foundation, he created the Tezos R&D Labs (Nomadic Labs), launched the scientific partnerships between Tezos and scientific institutions like INRIA and IMDEA (French and Spanish research institute in computer science), he created the Tezos Foundation grant program. He also helped the creation of 4 Tezos Foundations in Asia (Japan, Korea, China and Singapore). He is today scientific advisor of TzVentures.

Moonstake’s partner Binarystar will also support marketing efforts for this partnership and both companies by event organization and local community development on staking technology and blockchain adoption. This partnership will create synergies by jointly driving blockchain staking activity and accelerating industry adoption of staking within Tezos’s ecosystem. 

About Moonstake

Moonstake was recently established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets. Staking adopts Proof of Stake (PoS) as a type of consensus algorithm which allows cryptocurrency holders to increase the likelihood of receiving block rewards from its block validation transaction. It brings together the ability to stake and ultimately distributes block rewards based on contribution. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol and provides business services through partners and companies. Staking is expected to help elevate the blockchain technology and work for decentralization.

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 South Korea. 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 office space, technical support, mentoring, marketing, partnerships, fund-raising and more.

https://www.tz.ventures/

About Binarystar Co. Ld: 

Binarystar Co. Ltd. is a leading Japanese incubation platform with Japan’s biggest Blockchain business hub in the heart of Tokyo. It has multiple proprietary outlets to promote blockchain businesses to companies throughout Japan and East Asia and operate as a consulting body to accelerate business in such areas. 

https://binary-star.business/

We are pleased to announce that Moonstake and Infinito have entered into a strategic partnership to bring the staking economy to the hands of people. Infinito Wallet will integrate with Moonstake to enable staking for all assets operated in Moonstake’s staking pools. 

This partnership will open a door for Infinito Wallet users to directly stake through Moonstake staking pools and earn rewards without any hassle process. This strategic partnership will create the synergies by jointly driving staking activity and accelerate industry adoption of the staking ecosystem. Besides, both parties will conduct joint research on DeFi products.

Moonstake is an advanced technology company with specific focuses on blockchain and staking technologies to build Asia’s Biggest Staking Network. Moonstake was established to develop a staking pool protocol to satisfy increasing demands in regional and global blockchain markets.  Signature products include Moonstake Web Wallet along with Moonstake Mobile Wallet（iOS / Android) enabling full staking functions and to be an all-in-one gateway for users to maximize the usage and potential of cryptocurrencies. Currently, Moonstake’s staking pool supports Cosmos, IRISnet, Ontology, Harmony, Cardano, QTUM and Tezos thereby providing current users with the flexible option to adopt staking purposes. 

Our strategic partner, Infinito Wallet unlocks the power of investing and trading of top cryptocurrencies. It provides a safe place for every user to manage and grow their crypto wealth, and enjoy decentralized finance. Infinito Wallet has been growing with over 30,000 active users globally and millions of USD in cryptocurrencies being managed on the wallet by the user community. Infinito Wallet is frequently ranked amongst the best wallets for crypto communities in the world such as one of the best wallets for EOS, ADA, ETH, ONT, best crypto Wallet & DAPP Browser and more.

Infinito Wallet was one of the first mobile wallets on the market to support services and assets on BinanceChain, ADA, EOS and many more top-tier blockchain protocols. Top leading blockchain service providers and various protocol have joined Infinito ecosystem to offer benefits and advanced features to the community, and boost the expansion of the crypto ecosystem such as Binance, Tomochain, Neo, EOS, Ontology, IRIS, IOHK for Cardano, Holdex, Kybernet work, FIO with over 50+ leading Dapps and services. 

Furthermore, dApps browser for interacting with the DeFi ecosystem within the wallet by providing nativie exchange feature with Changelly exchange, peer-to-peer way to buy Bitcoin with 167 fiat currencies through over 300 payment methods at great prices with Paxful (peer-to-peer BTC market place), buy crypto with debit & credit card with the best rate with Simplex and more. Through the expansion of its partner network, Infinito Wallet wants to make crypto investment easy for mass adoption. 

As a leading blockchain tech provider, Infinito has also released the Infinito Blockchain Platform (IBP for short), a comprehensive all-in-one blockchain platform for businesses, developers and academia to seamlessly make use of a wide variety of blockchain-based functionality in one place. It enables easy development of decentralized apps using APIs. Businesses can also choose from various turnkey SaaS, modules, services, and solutions periodically to their needs. Infinito invites blockchain developers and technology companies around the world to aboard IBP and create a value-driven blockchain ecosystem through which anyone utilizing, or looking to utilize blockchain can succeed.

Mitsuru Tezuka, CEO at Moonstake says:

“Infinito Wallet offers safe and easy access to various blockchain-powered services. With the strong collaboration between Moonstake and Infinto, both of our ecosystems can provide the best services to both the community and entire blockchain industry, We are looking forward to our upcoming integration.”

Jack Nguyen, Director at Infinito Wallet says:

“We are excited to partner with Moonstake, which is committed to creating Asia’s biggest staking pool network so Infinitors and Moonstake users can enjoy a perfect blockchain and staking experience. We believe that this partnership further boosts the Defi ecosystem and grows the wider blockchain community together.”

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/ 

About Infinito Wallet

Infinito Wallet is a leading decentralized finance wallet for crypto users, serving as a gateway for users to maximize usage and potential of their cryptocurrencies. Being a safe place for people to start investing and earning money with cryptocurrencies, Infinito Wallet provides a seamless and educational onboarding process for newbies as well as a comprehensive feature list that enables people to buy, sell, trade, stake, lend and secure their crypto fund. The goal Infinito Wallet wants to achieve is to make cryptocurrencies easy for people to adopt and enjoy.

https://www.infinitowallet.io/