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Chain is a San Francisco based technology company on a mission to enable a smarter and more connected economy. We build cryptographic ledgers that underpin breakthrough financial products and services.

Chain was founded in 2014 and has raised over $40 million in funding from Khosla Ventures, RRE Ventures, and strategic partners including Capital One, Citigroup, Fiserv, Nasdaq, Orange, and Visa.

Chain

Since 2012, Trail of Bits has helped secure some of the world’s most targeted organizations and products. We combine high-end security research with a real-world attacker mentality to reduce risk and fortify code.

Building and using cryptographic libraries is notoriously difficult. Even when each component of the system has been implemented correctly (quite difficult to do), improperly combining these pieces can lead to disastrous results.

Cryptography, when rolled right, forms the bedrock of any secure application. By combining cutting-edge mathematics and disciplined software engineering, modern crypto-systems guarantee data and communication privacy. Navigating these subtleties requires experts in both cryptography software engineering and the underlying mathematics. That’s where we can help.

Trail of Bits

We build tools to help companies join the tokenized economy. Delivering the promise of digital assets with institutional grade compliance, TokenSoft offers a suite of tech and security products to funds and enterprises.

TokenSoft

Build Secure Smart Contracts in Solidity. OpenZeppelin is a battle-tested framework of reusable smart contracts for Ethereum and other EVM and eWASM blockchains.

Open Zeppelin

BitPay, Start accepting bitcoin, store and spend bitcoin securely, or get the BitPay Card.

BitPay

From optional to essential. Technology makes life easier, and by caring about the quality of our products, we deliver a technological perspective that empowers our community of users. Through an exceptional understanding of advancements in software, Rublix is dedicated to creating software applications that are not only entrenched into our daily lives, but congruent with our values of trust, accessibility, and functionality.

Recordkeeping is the foundation in many aspects of software, it’s a fundamental technology that allows us to save data for future use. Rublix is building the next generation of fintech products, utilizing blockchain technology as the most trustworthy form of recordkeeping. From trading tools to decentralized applications, Rublix is creating a software ecosystem focused on enhancing trading performance and efficiencies.

Rublix

Conflux Network originated from the research lab of Turing Award recipient Dr. Andrew Yao at Tsinghua University.

This progressive research provides a solution to the ‘blockchain trilemma’ problem with a novel Tree-Graph consensus mechanism that optimizes security, scalability and decentralization.

In 2018, the Conflux Foundation was formed and a regulatory compliant fundraise was completed to build an open infrastructure based on this breakthrough consensus mechanism. Soon after, Conflux established itself as the only state endorsed public, permissionless blockchain in China.

As respected advocates of public blockchain infrastructure in China, Conflux is advancing the education and research in blockchain development. In 2020, Conflux established the Tree-Graph Research Institute in partnership with the government of Shanghai and the Key Laboratory of Blockchain Infrastructure & Applications with the government of Hunan.

Conflux has also expanded its global operations and community with a diverse distributed team of more than 50 members across over four continents, including offices in Toronto, Canada and Lagos, Nigeria.

Conflux

Qulian Technology is an international leading blockchain team with all core team members graduated from Zhejiang University, Tsinghua University and other first-class universities at home and abroad, and Academician Chen Chun of the Chinese Academy of Engineering acted as chairman of the board. The company has a team of nearly 200 people, 90% of whom are technicians, more than 10 have doctoral degrees and 140 have master's degrees. The core competitiveness of the company is Hyperchain bottom technology platform. This platform ranks first in the technical evaluation of several large and medium-sized financial institutions. It is also the first batch of bottom platforms to pass the Blockchain Standard Test of the China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI) and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). It has applied for 28 patents in blockchain related fields. 

The company's partners include the People's Bank of China, China Foreign Exchange Trading Center, China UnionPay, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, Everbright Bank of China, China Zheshang Bank, Beijing Bank, Pudong Development Bank, Guangzhou Development Bank, Tebon Securities, China Merchants Securities, Google, Microsoft, Huawei, China Banknote Smart Card Research Institute, Fosun Star Interest, State Street Corp, Cisco, Intel, Businessmen, Xinwangda, etc., have been online application scenarios including digital bills, asset securitization (ABS), accounts receivable, digital deposits, data trading, equity, bonds, supply chain funds. Finance, traceability, logistics management, etc., most of the application systems have produced greater economic and social value, and some classical cases such as accounts receivable, tender guarantee, ABS are included in the White Paper on the Development of China's Blockchain Industry in 2018, which is the information center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

 At present, the company has completed the B-round financing of 1.5 billion yuan (about 226 million dollars), including state investment funds, listed companies and traditional funds. This is the largest amount of financing that blockchain industry has obtained so far through traditional financing channels. It is also the largest single investment of national strategic capital in the area of blockchain. Qulian Technology has also leaped to become the first quasi-unicorn enterprise in blockchain industry.

Hyperchain

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.

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