Waves is a cryptocurrency and platform that features a wallet, decentralized exchange, and tools for launching tokens. As a WAVES holder you can lease your stake and generate income. It’s a Russia based project so it doesn’t get as much press as some others, but I think it’s a good one to own for 2018.
Recently Waves has announced a bunch of news and partnerships, so let’s see what’s going on.
One partnership is with Astana International Financial Center, which is a financial free zone in Kazakhstan. It wants to be a financial hub of Central Asia. What’s interesting is that in the press release they say it’s a “significant step towards the normalization and adoption of blockchain technology at the state level.”
Next up, RewardMob, a mobile eSports rewards platform, will use the Waves platform. RewardMob is software game developers can easily incorporate into their games to increase retention and monetization. According to RewardMob CTO Colin Bracey Waves was the only platform that could keep up with their transaction needs.
Waves also partnered with Group-IB, a cybersecurity firm, to fight against phishing attacks.
In another interesting partnership, Waves will be working with Tokenomy, which will give it access to Southeast Asia.
Based out of Indonesia, Tokenomy is an ICO platform where you can do everything from proposing a project to launching and listing a token. They’ll use Waves as their token platform. What’s interesting is that the CEO of Tokenomy, Ocscar Darmawan, also runs Bitcoin.co.id, an Indonesian crypto exchange.
In exchange news, Waves got listed on BCEX. It’s a China-based exchange that operates out of Canada.
On the ICO front Simdaq reached its hard cap in 28 hours, raising $5 million. It’s product is a set of tool for crypto trading.
There’s also MyTrackNet, a blockchain-based geo-tracking app. It had a successful pre-ICO that ended January 31 where they raised $625,000.
Don’t sleep on WAVES!
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