Securitize is a security tokenization platform. The company is focused on compliance and regulatory issues, and their dashboard helps clients manage the entire life cycle of a token. Token issuers can manage all aspects of their tokens, including issues related to regulation, fractional ownership, and driving liquidity. To do this, Securitize has developed an innovative protocol for managing ownership of digital assets. Their Digital Securities (DS) protocol will support third party apps, and will help address all aspects of the digital security life cycle, as well as the interests of investors, exchanges, and other stakeholders.

The Aztec Protocol is an efficient zero-knowledge privacy protocol designed to enable private transactions on the Ethereum blocckhain. Their zero-knowledge proofs enable private transactions that can facilitate a variety of inter-operable financial applications on Ethereum. Aztec is a ConsenSys portfolio company.

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NEAR Protocol is a decentralized application platform designed to make DApps operable on the web. The NEAR network uses a Proof of Stake consensus mechanism called Nightshade. The NEAR utility token is used for processing transactions and storing data, as well as for facilitating voting for governance issues.
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