Circle
USDC
Circle is a global financial technology company that issues the stablecoins USDC and EUROC, and develops programmable wallets across various blockchains. Circle is regulated as a licensed money transmitter under US state law just like PayPal, Stripe, and Apple Pay. Circle’s financial statements are audited annually.
Why?
USDC is a digital dollar, that’s available 24/7 and moves at internet speed. USDC lives natively on the internet, and is available for users to spend regardless of borders and banking hours. Anyone with an internet connection can send, receive, and save USDC.
A key feature of USDC is that it's always redeemable 1:1 for US dollars. USDC reserves are held in the management and custody of US financial institutions, including BlackRock and BNY Mellon.
Funded
Ambient
#### What Ambient (previously known as CrocSwap) is a DEX that is run in a single smart contract, where individual AMM (automated market maker) pools are included in the same contract instead of being separate smart contracts. Ambient single-contract architecture is designed to reduce gas and taxes while allowing users to seamlessly manage collateral in a single platform. #### Why? Ambient was developed as a new codebase that provides various different features compared to other DEXes. The team believes that the economics of AMMs are "broken", which causes liquidity to be centralized and controlled by very few. In order to change this, Ambient built their protocol from the ground-up allowng for deeper and varied types of liquidity and introduced various features and quality of life improvements vs other DEXes. These features include: * Gas savings vs other competing DEXes * Gasless transactions - users can pay in the swapped token instead of ETH for gas (using the EIP-712 off-chain standard) * Permissioned pools * Different types of liquidity - Concentrated (similar to UniV3), ambient (similar to UniV2), and knockout (similar to limit orders) * Dynamically adjusted pool fees
Wallet connect
WalletConnect is an open source protocol for connecting decentralised applications to mobile wallets with QR code scanning or deep linking. People can interact securely with any Dapp from their mobile phone, making WalletConnect wallets a safer choice compared to desktop or browser extension wallets.
