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Singularity Closes $2.2M in Latest Funding Round to Provide Institutions Confidential Access to DeFi

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Thursday, February 22, 2024
Crypto, ZK, Apollo, Noir, KYC, Confidentiality, Venture capital, SNARK, Nomura, Decentralized finance, Cryptocurrency

With this latest round, Singularity has raised close to US$4 million since its inception.

Key Points: 
  • With this latest round, Singularity has raised close to US$4 million since its inception.
  • Singularity is leading the way in developing a KYC/KYB-compliant institutional DeFi access layer, providing access to leading protocols for on-chain institutional participants while prioritizing commercial confidentiality.
  • Users can seamlessly access existing on-chain liquidity and conduct transactions within Singularity, all while benefiting from on-chain anonymity by utilizing advanced zero-knowledge technology.
  • "We are excited to support Singularity on its journey to bring private and compliant DeFi accessibility to institutions."

Singularity Closes $2.2M in Latest Funding Round to Provide Institutions Confidential Access to DeFi

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Crypto, ZK, Apollo, Noir, KYC, Confidentiality, Venture capital, SNARK, Nomura, Decentralized finance, Cryptocurrency

With this latest round, Singularity has raised close to US$4 million since its inception.

Key Points: 
  • With this latest round, Singularity has raised close to US$4 million since its inception.
  • Singularity is leading the way in developing a KYC/KYB-compliant institutional DeFi access layer, providing access to leading protocols for on-chain institutional participants while prioritizing commercial confidentiality.
  • Users can seamlessly access existing on-chain liquidity and conduct transactions within Singularity, all while benefiting from on-chain anonymity by utilizing advanced zero-knowledge technology.
  • "We are excited to support Singularity on its journey to bring private and compliant DeFi accessibility to institutions."

Space and Time Integrates Verifiable Compute Layer Natively into Chainlink Functions

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Monday, October 2, 2023
Evidence, Database, Blockchain, SQL, SNARK, Chain-link fencing, Verifier, AI, ZK, Cryptocurrency, Space

Space and Time today announces that Proof of SQL, the platform’s novel zk-proof for SQL queries, will run its zk-Verifier natively on Chainlink nodes.

Key Points: 
  • Space and Time today announces that Proof of SQL, the platform’s novel zk-proof for SQL queries, will run its zk-Verifier natively on Chainlink nodes.
  • Space and Time will leverage the Chainlink Network to provide consensus on the proof results.
  • The integration is announced as Space and Time is named the official preferred data warehouse solution for the Chainlink ecosystem.
  • Space and Time already includes native integration with Chainlink Functions, enabling users to send query results onchain directly from Space and Time.

Top Web3 Companies Launch the Second Iteration of Competition to Advance Zero-Knowledge Technology

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Friday, September 15, 2023
Knowledge, ZK, SNARK, AMD, Supranational, Android, Web 3.0, Trapdoor, Aleo Solar, Name, Merkle, SAN, Ecosystem, GPU, Gamer, Mobile phone, Cryptocurrency, Poseidon

The event's successful launch in 2022 has fueled excitement for the future of zero-knowledge cryptography, promising further collaborative initiatives to keep advancing this essential technology for the new generations of the web.

Key Points: 
  • The event's successful launch in 2022 has fueled excitement for the future of zero-knowledge cryptography, promising further collaborative initiatives to keep advancing this essential technology for the new generations of the web.
  • “It adds muscle to an already powerful cryptographic tool and will allow for efficient industry-grade ZK technology products to be deployed in the near future.
  • The first iteration of ZPrize resulted in significant technological advancements, marking a new era of ZK cryptography, bringing together web3 innovators with flagship technology brands.
  • “The need for zero-knowledge technology is clearer today, more so than ever before,” commented Alex Pruden, CEO of Aleo and Co-Founder of ZPrize.

Flash News: OKX NFT Marketplace Adds Support for Base and Linea

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Ethereum, ConsenSys, NFT, Non-fungible token, Optimism, SNARK, OKX, Cryptocurrency, OpenSea, Linea, Web3

The OKX NFT Marketplace has added support for the Base and Linea chains.

Key Points: 
  • The OKX NFT Marketplace has added support for the Base and Linea chains.
  • The integration follows OKX Wallet adding support for Base and Linea , and allows users access to NFTs across 17 blockchains while bringing the liquidity of OpenSea onto the Base network.
  • Optimism aims to solve the blockchain trilemma by providing interoperability and composability for participating rollups, one of which is Base.
  • The OKX NFT Marketplace is the most comprehensive multichain open NFT marketplace in Web3.

Cryptosat Prepares First Ethereum KZG Share to Emanate from an Earth-Orbiting Satellite

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Falcon 9, Orbit, SNARK, SpaceX, Communications satellite, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum

Mountain View, California--(Newsfile Corp. - April 4, 2023) - Cryptosat is poised to add its entropic share to the Ethereum KZG Ceremony from an earth-orbiting satellite.

Key Points: 
  • Mountain View, California--(Newsfile Corp. - April 4, 2023) - Cryptosat is poised to add its entropic share to the Ethereum KZG Ceremony from an earth-orbiting satellite.
  • It travels 550 km above ground, making it impossible for anyone to gain access during the course of the KZG contribution.
  • The KZG Ceremony is a coordinated public event designed to provide a cryptographic foundation for Ethereum scaling.
  • Cryptosat Co-Founder Yan Michalevsky said: "Considering the prominence of Ethereum in the blockchain ecosystem, the significance of scaling the Ethereum blockchain cannot be understated.

Cryptosat completes seed round to launch Tamper-proof crypto-satellites into space

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Friday, October 28, 2022
VDF, Dwight Schrute, Inflection, Blockchain, Materials International Space Station Experiment, Environment, Organization, SNARK, International Space Station, Orbit, Stanford University, Internet, Filecoin, Confidentiality, IPFS, InterPlanetary File System, Partnership, Cryptocurrency, Surveying

Cryptosat, a startup launching a Trusted Execution Environment in space, has successfully completed a seed raise of $3 Million.

Key Points: 
  • Cryptosat, a startup launching a Trusted Execution Environment in space, has successfully completed a seed raise of $3 Million.
  • Cryptosat has already begun exploring partnerships with organizations interested in creating a trusted execution environment in space.
  • Protocol Labs is also working with Cryptosat to trial time-based cryptographic primitives such as Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs) hosted in space.
  • Cryptosat Co-founder, Yan Michalevsky said: Cryptosat provides unprecedented integrity, confidentiality and authenticity guarantees for the most sensitive cryptographic operations by leveraging an environment that provides ultimate physical security: space.

Announcing Hashstack’s switch to Starknet

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Monday, August 8, 2022
ZK, Ecosystem, Blockchain, Language, EVM, Decentralized finance, CAGR, L1, SNARK, Cryptocurrency, Solidity, Ethereum

Hashstack is thrilled to announce its strategic shift to Starkware developed Starknet the first general-purpose permissionless Decentralized ZK-Rollup, to deploy Open Hashstacks moneymarket protocol to enable secure, under-collateralised loans on the blockchain.

Key Points: 
  • Hashstack is thrilled to announce its strategic shift to Starkware developed Starknet the first general-purpose permissionless Decentralized ZK-Rollup, to deploy Open Hashstacks moneymarket protocol to enable secure, under-collateralised loans on the blockchain.
  • StarkNet, is a permissionless decentralized ZK-Rollup operating as an L2 network over Ethereum, where any dApp can achieve unlimited scale for its computation, without compromising Ethereums composability and security.
  • Starkware teams success in building an open-minded, collaboration-centric community made it 10x easier for Hashstacks team to evaluate & deploy on Starknet.Additionally, Starkware incentivised Hashstack for building & deploying on Starknet.
  • Hashstacks solution to the over-collateralisation problem in DeFi lending, Open is a non-custodial, zk-native money-market protocol designed to enable secure under-collateralised loans on-chain.