CEX.IO
CEX.IO is a licensed and versatile cryptocurrency exchange that was founded in 2013 and has since established offices in various countries, including the UK, US, Ukraine, Cyprus, and Gibraltar. With a user base exceeding 3 million worldwide, CEX.IO ensures dependable services through cold storage of cryptocurrencies, robust financial health, top-notch security measures, and adherence to KYC/AML regulations. Notably, CEX.IO was among the pioneer platforms to facilitate easy fiat-to-crypto transactions by allowing customers to make payments via credit cards and bank transfers. Presently, the exchange offers a diverse range of trading options for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ripple, Stellar, Litecoin, and Tron, among others, which can be traded for fiat currencies like USD, EUR, GBP, and RUB. Understanding the importance of accessibility, CEX.IO has developed trading capabilities through its website and mobile applications for both iOS and Android, as well as through WebSocket and REST API to cater to different user preferences. This commitment to adaptability ensures that clients can engage in trading activities anytime and anywhere.
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Iris Identity Protection
Iris provides integration-ready identity and cyber protection solutions that help organizations add powerful customer security capabilities directly into their existing products — without building from scratch. Designed for modern digital platforms, Iris makes it easy to embed identity protection into apps, portals, and customer experiences at scale.
Identity Protection API
Iris’ API suite delivers a multitude of protection solutions—including dark web monitoring & alerts, credit services, risk assessment tools, device protection, and more—into your platform. Teams can fully control the user experience, data flows, and customer journeys while leveraging Iris’ underlying technology and data aggregation.
Micro-Experiences
Prebuilt, customizable UI components that can be embedded directly into your application. These lightweight modules allow teams to quickly deploy identity protection features — such as alerts, dashboards, and monitoring tools — with minimal development effort.
Built for flexibility, Iris supports multiple integration approaches, enrollment methods, and data handling models, so organizations can choose how information flows between users, their systems, and Iris. The platform is designed to scale across large user bases while maintaining strong security and performance standards.
By making identity protection a native part of the user experience, Iris helps organizations increase engagement, strengthen trust, and deliver meaningful, always-on protection to their customers.
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Handshake
Handshake is a pioneering peer-to-peer naming protocol that operates in a decentralized and permissionless manner, empowering each participant to validate and oversee the root DNS naming zone, thereby presenting an alternative to traditional certificate authorities and naming frameworks. In the current landscape, internet names such as top-level domains and social media handles depend heavily on centralized entities that exercise complete control over a system trusted to be reliable, which inherently poses risks of hacking, censorship, and corruption. By introducing innovative methods, Handshake strives to enhance the internet's security, resilience, and societal value through a network validated by its users, representing a significant shift from centralization to a more distributed structure. This initiative not only addresses the shortcomings of the centralized internet services that have dominated since the 1990s but also seeks to revive the original vision of a decentralized internet, where control is distributed among its users rather than concentrated in the hands of a few. Ultimately, Handshake serves as a vital experiment in shaping the future of internet governance and user autonomy.
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BTC.us
Bitcoin has established itself as a reliable store of value protocol, while Stacks aims to demonstrate that it can serve as the foundation for a user-owned internet. By introducing scalable transactions and dynamic smart contracts to the Bitcoin ecosystem, Stacks effectively utilizes Bitcoin's substantial $1 trillion capital. The registration of .BTC domains occurs through a smart contract on Stacks, which is secured by the Bitcoin network. This contract features a decentralized name registry developed in Clarity language, where ownership of each .BTC name is encoded as a hash on the Bitcoin blockchain. Instead of overwhelming the Bitcoin blockchain with individual name registrations, numerous Stacks transactions can be consolidated into a single transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain. The web bridge enables btc.us to function as a top-level domain, affording users the ability to create personal subdomains. While the web bridge operates as a centralized service, the .BTC names themselves remain decentralized. Looking ahead, enhancements to .btc resolution in web browsers could significantly improve user experience and accessibility. This evolution could lead to a more integrated and efficient use of Bitcoin as a foundational element of the web.
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