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Rakuten Mobile, NEC and Intel demonstrate industry-leading performance in containerized 5G Core lab trial

TOKYO, Jun 28, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Rakuten Mobile, Inc., NEC Corporation and Intel Corporation announced today that they have achieved a performance of 640 Gbps per server for the containerized User Plane Function (UPF) on the containerized 5G SA core network jointly developed by Rakuten Mobile and NEC running on the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP).Containerized UPF performance is crucial to maximize the value of 5G deployment. This is because the control plane (C-plane) and user plane (U-plane), which were historically collocated, are completely decoupled in the disaggregated 5G architecture. This enables an independently scalable UPF which is key to private networks, edge computing, hybrid cloud and to accelerate a variety of deployment scenarios. Rakuten Mobile has adopted 5G architecture from the launch of its network, including a CUPS (Control and User Plane Separated) packet core for its 4G LTE network.The 640 Gbps performance per server for the containerized UPF on the 5G SA core network was achieved in a laboratory environment in Tokyo. This represents a significant opportunity to drive high performance of the commercial network in the future.NEC...

Nucleus Vision Acquires Jiffy Charge to Create One of the World’s Largest Private Network

San Francisco, CA / SEAPRWire / June 21, 2021 / - Nucleus Vision's acquisition of Jiffy Charge, a micro real estate marketplace company (similar to Airbnb for micro spaces) is well in tandem with its vision of enabling a private communication network, powered by micro DeFi Financing. This move comes quickly on the heels of NV 1.0's implementation in deploying a sensor-driven solution in the offline retail market place to capture vital customer identification and intelligence in real time in a precise physical place, enabling smart communication and driving commerce. NV 2.0 is a step forward that completes the circle and utilizes the full potential of NV 1.0's technology capability, developed in-house. The acquisition of Jiffy Charge has opened up opportunities to acquire physical spaces for asset distribution, with an aim to build the world's largest communication network for customers and product inventory. One company already in the decentralized private network race is Helium. NV 2.0's decentralized wireless private network will adopt the company's already existing IoT platform. Together, with NV 2.0's IoT assets layer and micro real estate platform, the solution can be deployed...

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DIBA – Proper NFT (Taproot-ready) at the Bitcoin Conference

MIAMI, FL, Jun 14, 2021 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - DIBA is a platform working on the first ecosystem to collect proper unique digital assets (UDA), popularly known as non-fungible tokens (NFT) on the Bitcoin blockchain and layer 2 scaling solutions.Gideon presenting DIBA at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami on June 3 (Whale Day).Out of hundreds of submissions, DIBA was selected to present their project as one of the Top 10 Finalists at the 2021 Bitcoin Conference in Miami on Whale Day. The judges for the pitch included Tim Draper, Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Oleg Mikhalsky (Fulgur Ventures) and David Roebuck.Organized by Bitcoin Magazine, the conference is the biggest crypto event on earth, welcoming 12,000 attendees and attracting more than 20,000 global crypto believers to Miami.The founder and chief executive of DIBA explained the company's mission is to help millions of people understand, own and use non-custodial digital assets built on top of the Bitcoin network. Assets in the virtual world are worth over $125B and yet, centralized in a few hands. As a space-faring civilization, the onus is on us to build a decentralized and censorship-resistant ownershi...

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Hydrogen Project in Hamburg on German Government Shortlist

TOKYO, May 31, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - The partners of the Hamburg Green Hydrogen Hub, namely Shell, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Vattenfall and the municipal company Warme Hamburg can continue to be optimistic about receiving EU funding to implement their plans. The project in Hamburg has been included in the German Federal Ministry of Economics' shortlist of projects under consideration for funding under the EU's "Important Projects of Common European Interest" (IPCEI) program.The shortlist includes 62 projects from initially around 200 individual projects that applied for funding under the IPCEI program. The HH-WIN project, by the Hamburg gas network, which will provide the pipeline infrastructure for hydrogen transport in Hamburg, is also on the short list.The companies Shell, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), Vattenfall and municipal company Warme Hamburg are planning how they can jointly produce hydrogen from wind and solar power at the Hamburg-Moorburg power plant site and utilize it in its vicinity. In addition to the construction of a scalable electrolyser with an initial output of 100 megawatts, the further development of the site into a so-called...

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Rakuten Mobile and NEC Partner to Promote Open RAN in Global Telecom Markets

TOKYO, May 18, 2021 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Rakuten Mobile, Inc. and NEC Corporation announced today the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote Open RAN (open radio access networks) in global mobile telecommunications markets.In Japan, NEC is currently providing 5G radio units (5G RU) for Rakuten Mobile's fully virtualized cloud-native mobile network. The two companies are also jointly developing Rakuten Mobile's containerized(1) 5G Stand Alone (SA) core network (5GC)(2). Under the MoU, Rakuten Mobile and NEC will expand upon their domestic collaboration to date to provide 5G and 4G Radios and engineering services for Open RAN systems aligned with O-RAN specifications(3) for global markets, and accelerate the global expansion of the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP).Open RAN refers to radio access networks (RAN) where the interfaces and protocols between the RAN components are open and interoperable. This allows operators to select and combine the equipment to suit their needs and deploy networks without legacy vendor lock-in. As 5G services expand and diversify, both Rakuten Mobile and NEC are looking to promote Open RAN standards in the global ...

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全球公司董事会回应危机对管治的挑战 香港董事学会分享全球董事调查2020-2021结果

HONG KONG, May 6, 2021 - (亚太商讯 via SEAPRWire.com) - 一项有关董事会于新冠疫情危机下之管治举措的全球调查发现,三分之二公司董事表示已将投入董事会工作的时间增加50%或以上。香港董事学会今日分享「全球董事学会网络」(即Global Network of Director Institutes,简称「GNDI」)主办的《全球董事调查2020-2021报告》,分析于2020年下半年来自全球17个董事学会近2,000名董事的回应。香港董事学会是GNDI的成员组织,而GNDI是一个由各地首要董事学会所组成的联盟,代表超过150,000名公司董事会成员。香港董事学会主席陶荣博士表示:「GNDI调查报告为我们提供了及时的快映,显示全球董事如何克服新冠疫情危机所带来的经济及社会影响,以及董事如何重新校准董事会焦点及策略,于现在以至可见未来在应对新冠疫情影响方面给予我们很好的参考,因预期疫情将会持续一段时间。全球董事必须及已经采取快速行动应变,这次危机亦提醒他们需要重新思考、重新估值、重新整合、重新开始、重头回弹。」全球主要结果摘要 以下是报告的主要结果摘要:-- 董事给予自己及他们的管理团队评估高分,许多董事响应说由于之前做过模拟情景规划,建立了良好根基,因此可以有效地应付这次新冠肺炎危机。-- 于 2021年及以后,大家将会更加注重风险 ,这次危机极可能带来无比巨大的长期影响, 尤其是董事会于考虑策略、管理风险、评估员工健康与安全等方面。-- 虚拟董事会会议是可行的,但只是次佳选择,虚拟董事会会议亦将会继续流行。挑战与响应GNDI调查报告发表全球统计,香港董事学会亦准备了补充文件,摘录重要议题以全球统计及亚洲及大洋洲(「亚洲及大洋洲」)与香港两分组作并排胪列,根据香港比较结果优次排序,显示在对比区域和世界趋势下的香港情况,给有兴趣的读者参考。结果显示应对新冠疫情危机的最大挑战是「重新调整战略以适应新市场或新环境」(香港:61%,亚洲及大洋洲:61%,全球:56%),其次是「在影响员工、投资者、客户、供货商、社群等的决策中确保有效管治」及「应对不断变化的政府政策和指引」。至于董事会如何应对新冠疫情危机,最常见的答案是「董事会已经能够在新环境中有效地进行管治」(香港:80%,亚洲及大洋洲:84%,全球:89%)。许多董事会已成立特设或特别危机委员会,将其视为「董事会危机应对计划的重要部份」。相对其他地域董事,香港董事多已经于12个月前把流动局限及疫症风险列入「董事会风险仪表板上作为首要风险」,于此方面似乎更为着力,究其因可能是由于他们之前曾经历过2003年SARS及2019年社会动荡获得经验。面对新冠疫情的挑战,香港董事较为注重「快速作出批核或决策」带来的挑战。亦因此更加重视「确保决策能力以解决瞬间移动的问题」,将其视为具有长...

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Sentinel and StrongBlock Combine Forces for Greater dVPN Node Availability

US, May 1, 2021 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Sentinel, a one-of-a-kind network layer that allows the development of third-party and white-label decentralized Virtual Private Network (dVPN) applications, is excited to announce its integration with StrongBlock, the leading Nodes-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider. StrongBlock launches and operates full blockchain nodes for non-technical users to increase blockchain strength, rewarding them with STRONG or native protocol tokens. With this integration, the stage is set for Sentinel's dVPN to expand in scope and utility, while creating new use cases for the network.With over 5,500 operators running 21,000+ nodes, StrongBlock allocates resources to networks seeking security, diversity, and decentralization. By combining forces with Sentinel, a network that has over 300,000 global users of dVPN applications, StrongBlock's infrastructure will provide significantly more dVPN nodes, expanding Sentinel's dVPN bandwidth far beyond its existing capacity.Combined, the two organizations will provide a truly decentralized VPN that surpasses the performance and user experience of existing centralized competitors such as NordVPN, ExpressVPN, Mullv...

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NEC recognized in Gartner Magic Quadrant for 5G Network Infrastructure for Communications Service Providers as a Visionary

TOKYO, Apr 28, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has been recognized as a Visionary in the February 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for 5G Network Infrastructure for Communications Service Providers. According to the report, "This Magic Quadrant helps communications service providers identify and evaluate network equipment providers for their 5G network infrastructure. This end-to-end 5G network infrastructure includes RAN, core network, transport and network infrastructure services."NEC has been a pioneer and strong industry leader in open, software defined, cloud-native networks from the early adoption of SDN, including the world's first commercial deployment of OpenFlow, as well as the recent commercial launch of its Open RAN radio units and cloud-native containerized 5G core network. This is in addition to its subsidiary Netcracker's industry leadership in 5G orchestration, operations automation and monetization. NEC has become synonymous with open, high performance, innovative 5G network integration and has proven its capabilities to integrate complex multi-vendor end-to-end 5G ecosystems, comprised of its own cutting-edge products and best-in-c...

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Partner in Newly Established Hamburg Hydrogen Network to ‘Make Hamburg Greener’

Hamburg, Germany, Apr 26, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - The companies Airbus, ArcelorMittal, Gasnetz Hamburg, GreenPlug, Hamburger Hafen und Logistik, Hamburg Port Authority, HADAG Seetouristik und Fahrdienst as well as Stadtreinigung Hamburg, together with the companies behind the Hamburg Green Hydrogen Hub - namely Shell, Vattenfall, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Warme Hamburg - have formed the Hamburg Hydrogen Network (Wasserstoffverbund Hamburg).Twelve companies join forces to form Hamburg Hydrogen Network (credit: Warme Hamburg)Both the German Federal Government and the European Union want to support high-profile projects in order to lay the foundation for a strong hydrogen economy in Europe. In a first joint effort, the Hamburg Hydrogen Network has submitted an application under an EU-wide support program.The network's projects, linking hydrogen production, distribution and utilization across a range of applications, will contribute to significant emission reductions. Already as of 2026, the network partners' projects could reduce CO2 emissions in Hamburg by 170,000 tons each year. Thanks to local electrolysis, sea-side imports and connection to the emerging Eur...

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Moonstake Partners with Sylo to bring their Staking Ecosystem to the Sylo Smart Wallet

SINGAPORE, Apr 9, 2021 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - 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 communicati...

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NEC and Cisco expand strategic partnership to help advance global deployments of 5G IP transport networks

TOKYO, Apr 8, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701), a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies, and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced they have entered a Global System Integrator Agreement (GSIA) to expand their partnership for accelerating the deployment of innovative 5G IP transport network solutions worldwide.The new agreement underlines NEC's successful track record as a Cisco Gold Partner over two decades, and its proven engineering capabilities to provide Cisco products to its global customer base across multiple regions. Under the agreement, the companies will jointly drive new business opportunities for 5G. NEC group companies will work closely with Cisco to complement NEC's ecosystem with optimized IP metro/access transport and edge cloud computing solutions. Cisco will support NEC's customer engagements by offering best-in-class products, proposals and execution support.NEC's comprehensive expertise as a network integrator in both the IT and network domains, coupled with Cisco's innovative 5G solutions portfolio, promise to provide tremendous added value to the 5G ecosystem. NEC and Cisco will make collaborative efforts ...

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Mitsubishi Corporation awarded 15-year contract to operate the Dubai’s world class driverless metro in Dubai and tram networks

TOKYO, Mar 23, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. (MHI-ENG) and KEOLIS S.A. are pleased to announce that they have formed a consortium (the Consortium) and signed a 15-year contract to operate and maintain Dubai's world class driverless metro in Dubai and tram networks with the Roads & Transport Authority of Dubai (RTA).This Consortium combines MC and MHI-ENG's extensive knowledge of the Dubai's metro network with KEOLIS' experience in automated metro operations and trams with operations in 30 cities worldwide. The Consortium will work hand-in-hand with RTA to deliver its vision of world-class, smart and sustainable mobility for the city.The contract covers15 years (9 base years and 6 renewable years). The Consortium will have a transition period and will start operating Dubai's metro and tram networks from September 8th, 2021.The Dubai metro network is the longest fully driverless and automated metro network in the world. features two lines (including Route 2020) spanning a total of 90 kilometers. The metro system links metro stations with bus, taxi and water bus lines connecting major areas, suc...

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Pastel Network Announces the Listing of PSL on the Bitcoin.com Exchange

NEW YORK, NY, Mar 3, 2021 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Pastel Network, the first truly decentralized and scalable blockchain project designed specifically for rare digital art, has officially announced its pending listing on Bitcoin.com, scheduled for March 5th, 2021.Pastel Network is a blockchain for rare digital art (also known as "NFTs") that is built on the secure, battle-tested codebases of the Bitcoin, Dash, and ZCash cryptocurrency projects. Pastel introduces several important innovations to the world of blockchain art, such as the decentralized storage of art image files natively in the network, as well as a decentralized validation process for registering new artworks that prevents near-duplicate images from being added to the system. Pastel's novel near-duplicate detection algorithm is based on robust image fingerprints that are generated using state-of-the-art deep learning image models and introduces a new form of digital scarcity which makes pixel patterns themselves "rare".Pastel takes a different technological approach than competing digital art blockchain projects, which are primarily built on top of the Ethereum platform. Because Pastel is an integrated pla...

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Seascape Network Officially Debuts on Binance Smart Chain

SINGAPORE, Mar 2, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Seascape Network, the popular game platform designed around the DeFi & NFT economy, announced its launch on the Binance Smart Chain. The expansion improves Seascape's scalability, while also allowing it to remain connected to the value and liquidity of Ethereum. With its launch on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Seascape will provide unmatched scalability in its games, while also allowing it to remain connected to the value and liquidity of Ethereum, enabling its users to decide where and how they want to trade their gamified DeFi assets. The BSC makes use of dual-chain architecture technology and is praised for its ability to grant users access to hyper-fast trading while offering flexibility to powerful dApps. The universal token of the Seascape Network, Crowns, which was released on Ethereum Mainnet, can now easily be bridged from Ethereum Mainnet to BSC using the Poly Network Bridge."The Seascape BSC integration opens doors to countless new gamers as we now can provide DeFi games with much lower fees for their transactions. Our partnership with Binance is stronger than ever and we cannot wait to continue our efforts to bridge the gap...

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Seascape Network NFT Store Now Online Ahead Further BSC Integration Announcements

SINGAPORE, Feb 18, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Seascape Network, NFT and DeFi gaming platform supported by Binance, has unveiled its native NFT Store with their NFTs named Scapes, complete with minting and staking capabilities. Users are now able to mint or stake Seascape NFTs on their currently released games, or collect the NFTs as collector's items.In redefining the traditional sense of NFTs, Seascape Network, a gaming platform founded upon NFT and DeFi economies, has officially launched its homegrown NFT store. This announcement follows the successful launch of its native token, Crowns, or CWS. The new development marks another milestone for the Binance-backed NFT and DeFi gaming platform in their current roadmap.According to their Medium article, the Seascape Network NFTs, Scapes, differ from its predecessors in that it aims to venture beyond the traditional functions associated with NFTs as collector's items, as seen with the most expensive NFT in history sold to date from CryptoKitties. These NFTs can be minted and staked on Seascape DeFi games for rewards. Like the NFTs in the typical sense, the NFT can be collected. Apart from this, Scapes may be accumulated and leveled up, or...

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Mastercard to open up network to select cryptocurrencies

BENGALURU (REUTERS) - Mastercard said on Wednesday (Feb 10) it was planning to offer support for some cryptocurrencies on its network this year, joining a string of big-ticket firms that have pledged similar support. The credit-card giant's announcement comes days after Elon Musk's Tesla revealed it had purchased US$1.5 billion (S$2 billion) of bitcoin and would soon accept it as a form of payment. Asset manager BlackRock and payments companies Square and PayPal have also recently backed cryptocurrencies. Mastercard already offers customers cards that allow people to transact using their cryptocurrencies, although without going through its network. "Doing this work will create a lot more possibilities for shoppers and merchants, allowing them to transact in an entirely new form of payment. This change may open merchants up to new customers who are already flocking to digital assets," Mastercard said. Mastercard specified that not all cryptocurrencies will be supported on its network, adding that many of the hundreds of digital assets in circulation still need to tighten their compliance measures. Many cryptocurrencies have struggled to win the trust of mainstream investors and the ...

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O2 and NEC jointly conduct Open RAN trial

TOKYO, Feb 2, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - O2 (Telefonica UK) and NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) have announced a successful Open RAN trial on O2's network with NEC and its ecosystem of partners that includes virtualized RAN software from Altiostar and hardware from GigaTera Communications and Supermicro among others.NEC helped to define a customized Open RAN architecture, optimized and adapted to the requirements of the O2 mobile network. Given its role as the system integrator for this trial, NEC coordinated the overall design of the system, which delivered a solid end-to-end solution and was conducted in collaboration with the aforementioned industry leaders. NEC's role included end-to-end testing and interoperability verification by leveraging its recently established Center of Excellence in the UK, which is where the trial with O2 was conducted, running via O2's core network. The trial builds on O2's progress in developing Open RAN technologies over the past 12 months. In January 2020, new windowO2 announced a range of Open RAN projects to help its customers better utilize its network, and its parent company, Telefonica, is playing an active role in Open RAN networks. Telefonica annou...

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Moonstake Enters a Strategic Partnership with Stake Technologies to Enhance the Polkadot Ecosystem and Scale the DeFi Projects

SINGAPORE, Feb 1, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - 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 t...

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New LeadsRx Ecosystem Attribution Product Enables Transparency Between Online Marketplaces and Their Trusted Partners within a First-Party Data Framework

Portland, OR, Jan 19, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - LeadsRx, a marketing analytics company, announced the availability of LeadsRx Ecosystem Attribution(TM) - the first comprehensive platform that maps the customer journey and performs attribution analysis across the websites of network owners and their trusted partners promoting and selling products and services within an industry ecosystem.Marketing ecosystems are composed of network owners and their partners. In this model, partners sell and promote a product or service, while network owners perform collaborative marketing and are paid a fee to do so by the partner. This is a cooperative relationship, but a single network owner often performs marketing for multiple, even hundreds or thousands, of partners. An ecosystem is formed when multiple competing networks strive to earn the business of partners. Examples of network owners include companies like Zillow, Auto Trader, NZI, and Domino's Pizza, and they function within an ecosystem for real estate, vehicle sales, dentists, insurance brokers and agents, and franchises.LeadsRx Ecosystem Attribution, with its innovative distributed attribution pixel technology, allows a network owner to ...

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Blockpass Provides KYC Services for Blitz Network

HONG KONG, Jan 11, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Blockpass is proud to reveal another new partnership, this time with Blitz Network - a union of miners, cross border traders and early cryptocurrency investors. As part of the financial landscape, Blitz Network requires KYC certification for larger volume users, which Blockpass will provide in a seamless and effective manner through its KYC Connect solution. In addition, Blitz Network has made a strategic investment in Blockpass.Blitz Network has been trading over-the-counter for high net-worth individuals (whose eligibility is subject to KYC checks and other requirements) since 2013, and pools its liquidity from clients and partners in Beijing, Hong Kong and Tokyo. By actively networking with banks, exchanges and brokers, Blitz aims to work closely with counter-parties to transfer value globally as fast as possible. It currently supports BCH, BTC, ETH and EOS, and has a USD50,000 requirement for OTC trading.Blockpass is a digital identity verification provider which provides a one-click compliance gateway to financial services and other regulated industries. From the Blockpass Mobile App, users can create, store, and manage a data-secure ...