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Obol Labs

Coinbase is a digital currency exchange headquartered in San Francisco, California. They broker exchanges of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and Litecoin with fiat currencies in around 32 countries, and bitcoin transactions and storage in 190 countries worldwide.  Their mission is to create an open financial system for the world.

Coinbase was founded in June 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam. Blockchain.info co-founder Ben Reeves was part of the original founding team but later parted ways with Armstrong due to a difference in how the Coinbase wallet should operate. The remaining founding team enrolled in the Summer 2012 Y Combinator startup incubator program. In October 2012, the company launched the services to buy and sell bitcoin through bank transfers. In May 2013, the company received a US$5 million Series A investment led by Fred Wilson from the venture capital firm Union Square Ventures. In December 2013, the company received a US$25 million investment, from the venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures (USV) and Ribbit Capital.

In 2014, the company grew to one million users, acquired the blockchain explorer service Blockr and the web bookmarking company Kippt, secured insurance covering the value of bitcoin stored on their servers, and launched the vault system for secure bitcoin storage. Throughout 2014, the company also formed partnerships with Overstock, Dell, Expedia, Dish Network, Time Inc. to power accepting bitcoin payments. The company also added bitcoin payment processing capabilities to the traditional payment companies Stripe, Braintree, and PayPal.

In January 2015, the company received a US$75 million investment, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the New York Stock Exchange, USAA, and several banks. Later in January, the company launched a U.S.-based bitcoin exchange for professional traders called Coinbase Exchange. Coinbase began to offer services in Canada in 2015, but in July 2016, Coinbase announced it would halt services in August after the closure of their Canadian online payments service provider Vogogo.

In May 2016, the company rebranded the Coinbase Exchange, changing the name to Global Digital Asset Exchange (GDAX) and offering Ether, the value token of Ethereum, for trade to professionals, and in July 2016, they added retail support for Ether.

In January and then March 2017, Coinbase obtained the BitLicense and licensed to trade in Ethereum and Litecoin from the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS). In November 2017, Coinbase was ordered by the US Internal Revenue Service to report any users who had at least $20,000 in transactions in a year.

On February 23, 2018, Coinbase told around 13,000 affected customers that the company would be providing their taxpayer ID, name, birth date, address, and historical transaction records from 2013-2015 to the IRS within 21 days.

On May 16, 2018, Coinbase Ventures announced its first investment in Compound Labs, a start-up building Ethereum smart contracts similar to money markets. Amazon cloud executive Tim Wagner joined Coinbase as vice president of engineering in August 2018.

Coinbase

Ledger is Your safe gateway to crypto. Unlock a world of crypto possibilities. Protect your crypto assets with the most popular hardware wallet in the market.

We are a unique digital security ecosystem that provides protection and is built on verifiable trust across our people, hardware and software. And in today’s world, we know that trust deserves proof. This is why we provide transparency into how our technology works.

We relentlessly stress-test our own technology solutions. Our Ledger Donjon team is made up of world-class experts with extensive backgrounds in the security and smartcard industries. They continuously look for vulnerabilities on Ledger products as well as our providers’ products in an effort to analyze and improve the security. We know security means never standing still.

What first started as an idea of building a secure element chip to safeguard digital assets for crypto enthusiasts has quickly evolved into the creation of a cutting edge security technology company serving individuals, institutional investors and enterprises. This goes beyond just crypto and bitcoin. From connected pacemakers to water supply systems to electric grids, there will be countless critical digital assets in the future that need security. If they’re not safe, they can be stolen or compromised, eventually hurting your wallet or even your life.

And through resilience, we give our clients and customers the ability to recover from setbacks, quickly adapt to change and keep going in the face of adversity. Resilience empowers our clients to explore and embrace pioneering opportunities like never before. 

Ledger enables resilience through verifiable trust. Knowing trust is the greatest way to make our world truly move forward and progress.

Ledger

Zerion is a building a trustless bank for Decentralized Finance (DeFi) on top of 0x, Uniswap, Kyber, Compound, MakerDao, and others.

An intuitive interface to blockchain-based protocols for decentralized finance. Zerion is a gateway to the world of decentralized finance. We provide secure and seamless access for all financial use cases.

Zerion

Rosetta is an open standard designed to simplify blockchain deployment and interaction. Spend less time on integration and more time on novel blockchain advancements.

Rosetta

Kraken is the best bitcoin exchange is needed for serious and professional bitcoin traders. Bitcoin security must be impeccable. Banking relationships must be sound and reliable. The trading engine must be fast. Order types must be advanced. And profits must be able to be multiplied with Bitcoin margin trading so you can leverage long bitcoin positions or short bitcoin positions.

Kraken

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Tools and Resources. Helping You Understand Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and Crypto Assets.

WhatBitcoinDid

Keybase is a key directory that maps social media identities to encryption keys (including, but not limited to PGP keys) in a publicly auditable manner. Keybase offers an end-to-end encrypted chat and cloud storage system, called Keybase Chat and the Keybase filesystem respectively. Files placed in the public portion of the filesystem are served from a public endpoint, as well as locally from a filesystem mounted by the Keybase client.

Keybase supports publicly connecting Twitter, GitHub, Facebook, Reddit, and Hacker News identities to encryption keys, along with Bitcoin and Zcash wallet addresses. Keybase has supported Coinbase identities since initial public release, but ceased to do so on March 17, 2017 when Coinbase terminated public payment pages.

Keybase

Ideas By Nature is a Blockchain Agency with expertise in branding, user experience design and blockchain applications development located in Denver, Colorado. Ideas By Nature’s proficiencies include, but are not limited to: Web3, DAPPlications, Drupal, Wordpress and CMS Web Design & Development, ReactJS Development, JavaScript, NodeJS and PHP Programming, Native Web and Mobile Application Development (.NET, PHP, HTML, CSS, C+, Objective-C, iOS, Android). In addition to advanced software development at both the consumer and enterprise levels. 

Working alongside leading blockchain technology products and teams since 2013, we provide high quality custom design and solutions. We build teams and skills around our clients, augmenting and accelerating our clients products. 

Our methodology and processes for scoping are designed for cultivating and understanding an idea. Beyond that thorough understanding, we ensure that your project is completed successfully, maintaining the goals and value propositions behind each business.

Ideas by Nature

Nansen analyzes 46M+ labeled Ethereum wallets and their activity. So you can separate the signal from the noise in blockchain data.

Nansen is an analytics platform for blockchain, which combines on-chain data with a massive and constantly growing database containing millions of wallet labels. Customers use Nansen to access this data via user-friendly dashboards, direct SQL queries, or APIs.

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