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When Bitcoin was first made known to the world, its design of being a new circulating currency to replace fiat was its most alluring aspect. It spoke to those who were looking at ways to “stick it to the man” every opportunity they got. It wasn’t until much later that this idea was overshadowed by […]

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Leading memecoin Shiba Inu is determined to extend its winning streak, jumping 36% in a day following news of a big partnership, plus being listed on a top crypto exchange. The altcoin, which is up a modest 92,000,000% this year, announced that it is partnering with William Volk, former vice president of tech at gaming […]

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ZUNA coin was recently listed on coinmarketcap and coingecko, the top crypto trackers in the space. Since then, its price shot up abruptly by 250,000% and gained 14,000 more holders in less than a month with no sign of slowing. 

ZUNA Makes Big Strides in the Crypto Market

With an official launch roughly two weeks ago, ZUNA is already gaining massive traction. The main mission of the ZUNA project is to progress its growing community and reach out to more people. The platform has rapidly climbed up in the coinmarketcap rankings from position 6000 to around 3000 in less than two weeks. 

ZUNA boasts some unique features that are built to reward investors. 5% of every transaction is redistributed to all existing hodlers.

In addition to rewarding ZUNA investors, according to their official website, ZUNA's liquidity pool (LP) is vital in stabilizing its prices. In every transaction, ZUNA takes 5%, which is automatically locked for stability.

ZUNA Future Plans

This project is still new and has plenty of room for growth. With a growing community behind them, ZUNA will begin working on their exclusive NFT collection drop scheduled for January of 2022. 

According to ZUNA's  roadmap, the team will follow up their NFT collection drop with plans on building an NFT marketplace where artists can create and sell their artwork. ZUNA also has future plans to introduce a crowdshare feature where multiple investors can own and sell a fraction of highly valued NFT's.

Exchange listing is an essential step in the roadmap of ZUNA that the team project will boost its adoption status in the crypto community. Currently, PancakeSwap is the exclusive exchange offering ZUNA. However, ZUNA plans to launch an all-around exchange suitable for both beginners and expert traders. The exchange will be accessible via mobile, where users can securely store the assets. 

ZUNA is community-oriented and invites early investors to be part of its innovative trajectory. With everything they have planned it is clear that ZUNA is a project to keep your eyes on in the coming months.

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Having already paid out over 1/2 million dollars' worth of Cardano rewards to investors, CardanoEvo strives to mirror the ethics, transparency and charitable status of Cardano.  Since the beginning, the team behind CardanoEvo built a strong and supportive community inclusive of investors who are interested in the long-term performance of this particular project.

Unique Features:

• CardanoEvo is based on the BSC blockchain which is a smart contract that stands for frictionless yield and liquidity generating. 

• The blockchain rewards holders with reflections in Cardano that are funded by transaction taxation. 

• The CardanoEvo token also comes with in-built investor protection which means there is a limit on how many tokens a wallet can hold and transact. 

• There is an anti-bot function embedded in the fabric of CardanoEvo to avoid running into hackers and scammers.

• Panic sell-off and hoarding which are inevitable woes of several crypto projects are discouraged in CardanoEvo smart contract.

• There is an auto-added liquidity option that adds 3% of each transaction into liquidity providing.

• Burn functions are not automatically activated but require manual indication so that deflation can be maintained when it is needed.

• The Cardano evolution ecosystem applies a 15% ‘buy' and a 17% ‘sell' fee to each transaction respectively. Wallet transfers are also included in this fee which has several functions.

• The various functions of the CardanoEvo smart contract help stabilize token price and thus the market capitalization.

Detailed Tokenomics Data:

Cardano is already one of the most prominent cryptocurrencies due to its decentralized nature and use-cases. But cardanoEvo in itself has an interesting token model that we have explained below:

The CardanoEvo token's majority (around 66.4%) is available on Pancakeswap. Developer wallets make up 2% of the total. The taxation model requires all buy transactions to bear 15% tax out of which 5% goes to marketing wallet, 3% to enhance liquidity, and 7% to Cardano token reflections. On the other hand, sell transactions levy 17% of sell tax out of which 8% is used for Cardano token reflections, 3% for liquidity, and 6% for marketing wallet.

The way the members of the community of CardanoEvo, contract, and the token reflections communicate with each other is exemplary and it unfolds as follows:

1. Investors put capital into a project

2. A tax is collected for each buy/sell transaction

3. A fraction of the tax goes to the buyback system

4. 7% of the remaining taxes are swapped into Cardano to be redistributed among holders.

CardanoEvo token is under the process of getting listed in several well-known crypto exchanges and is already listed and traded on Coinsbit. For now, you can track all information of the token at CoinMarketCap, Crypto.com, Coinbase, and on Trustwallet.

What is EvoSwap Beta?

EvoSwap is a decentralized exchange that the CardanoEvo dev team has launched in its Beta mode. It is a system that would allow the swapping of cryptocurrencies. Using EvoSwap, any crypto can be swapped on the Binance Smart Contract.

According to the official notice, EvoSwap Beta is the first stage in the EvoSwao system. This decentralized exchange platform by the CardanoEvo team would also support future staking and more pairings in the days to come. 

Roadmap of CardanoEvo

A glance at the project's ambitious roadmap and achievements completed tells us that CardanoEvo has a long way to go. According to the roadmap available on their website, the project has already completed its phase 1 & 2. It is currently in phase 3 at the moment and the dev team has planned until phase 5 of this unique project. Information regarding the upcoming phase would be released soon.

During phase 1 of its development, CardanoEvo achieved the following:

• Token design & collaboration with associated contract designers

• Draft whitepaper and creation of a roadmap

• Confirmed the leadership team to guide the project.

• Created International and ancillary boards along with Telegram main.

• Started negotiations with influencers

During phase 2 of its development, CardanoEvo achieved the following:

• Launched main website design

• Social media presence built

• Released the whitepaper

• Completed contract testing

• Marketing campaign awareness

• Fairlaunch

• Applied to CoinMarketCap and Coingecko

• Added Cardano news blog

• Coding started for EvoSwap DEX

• Coding started for EvoNFT marketplace

• Held AMAs in various Telegram group chats

Now in phase 3 of development, CardanoEvo is working on improving its service to cater to professional investors and all other community members. By now they have already;

• Launched daily AMAs

• Applied on Blockfolio App

• Completed listing on Coinhunt and Gemfinder

• Applied for Binance Smart Chain

Upcoming Plans for CardanoEvo

The best thing about CardanoEvo is its constant evolution. So far, CardanoEvo has launched its official website, EvoDashboard, EvoSwap beta, and also a merchandise store. 

Prior to the end of 2021, the team is wrapping up some extremely ambitious enhancements and features to the CardanoEvo ecosystem includomg;
- Updates and enhancement to EvoSwap
- Staking abilities
- Additional currency pairings within EvoSwap
- NFT Marketplace
- A new companion utility token
- A new buyback mechanism
- A new boost mechanism

And while the CardanoEvo team won't go into specifics, they say two of the upcoming releases before the end of 2021, will include features never before seen on the BSC.

Being a community-led project, CardanoEvo shows immense potential to grow into something useful for investors professionally, ethically, and legally.

Coingecko : https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/cardanoevo

CMC: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/cardanoevo/ 

Website: https://cardanoevo.com 

Merch Shop: https://cardanoevo.shop 

Telegram: https://t.me/CardanoEvo 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cardanoevo

The National Private Truck Council 2021 Benchmarking Survey Report provides fleets with new industry standards to evaluate performance and identify opportunities for improvement.

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"Information is power," explained Jim Lager, senior vice president for Penske Truck Leasing. "Fleet operators need real-time data to make informed decisions about their business. They want to know if what they are doing is best-in-class or underperforming, and how they can improve. Being able to see that information helps them identify areas of opportunity within their operations."

Lager added that every aspect of the supply chain is stressed right now. "I think it is even more critical to have good information and good partners to talk to about it," he said.

The 2021 NPTC Benchmarking Survey Report, which is sponsored by Penske, captures critical metrics from the 2020 calendar year, which was a time like no other.

"The purpose of this report is not to critique any fleet's performance, but rather to give them the tools so when they need the answers and the metrics in their continuous improvement efforts that they can grab onto those metrics in the report and move on," said Tom Moore, executive vice president of NPTC.

Even with the challenges, private fleets performed well and used their advantages to navigate supply chain challenges, hauling more shipments and volume than they did in the previous year.

Moore continued: "The thing that really impresses me, despite everything that is going on in the pandemic, is the stability that occurred in our private fleet management. We didn't see extreme swings in terms of equipment buying or a lot of change in the driver hours, even though the DOT extended those hours. Those folks stuck right in that core business. I thought that was a telling statement for how private fleets position themselves for success."

Supply chain challenges have helped private fleets raise the awareness and importance of transportation generally within their companies.

"In the last three to four years, companies have decided to start their own private fleet from scratch because of the vulnerability in finding transportation," said Gary Petty, CEO of NPTC. "I think a lot of companies are saying, 'We can manufacture the greatest product around, but if we can't get it in a way that has no damage and no loss that is timely, it doesn't matter.'"

Many private fleets shined during COVID disruptions and were able to navigate capacity constraints and surging costs others faced within the transportation market, strengthening the case for having a private fleet.

"Private fleets are resilient and flexible," Lager said, adding that more and more companies are considering and transitioning to private fleets. "That is a result of the spot market and the carrier situation driving them toward that so they could control their destiny. They don't want to trust that to a carrier. They want to do it with a partner like Penske."

Petty stated 75% of the private fleets in the study are operating as cost centers or, as he calls them, contribution centers. "They're in it to provide outstanding customer cost in the most effective and efficient manner possible. Whatever financial model, the goal is to deliver exceptional levels of customer service in the most efficient manner possible," he said.

As in years past, the primary reason companies report operating a private fleet is to provide exceptional levels of customer service that are unavailable on the open market, especially at a time when transportation and logistics capacity has been relatively constrained.

In the latest study, more than 92% of the respondents, in response to the open-ended question, 'What is the primary reason your company operates a private fleet?,' answered customer service.

Measuring on-time performance remains the primary means of tracking customer service, although other metrics are growing in acceptance.

This year 68% of the fleets report measuring on-time performance as opposed to 82% last year.

This erosion in on-time deliveries makes room for a bevy of other metrics, according to the NPTC report, most notably safety scores, tracked by 56% of respondents (53% last year); cost-per-mile, tracked by 55% of the respondents (35% last year); and customer comment, tracked by 32% of the population.

Shipments for private fleets were up from last year by 9.7%, and volume was up by 5.6%. This growth is supported by an overall mileage increase of 5.7%, which means that fleet respondents accomplished these gains rather efficiently, according to the report.

Even still, private fleets do face challenges, with driver-related issues being the No. 1 challenge listed. Driver-related issues are cited by nearly every respondent, often more than once. Rounding out the list of issues cited by fleets are: Cost-related issues; equipment and maintenance; customer service; regulatory and safety.

While driver issues remain top-of-mind, private fleets perform better than the for-hire population. "While everybody is feeling the driver shortage, it is less at private fleets," Penske's Lager said.

This year's survey found that driver turnover fell to 15.8%, nearly three full percentage points down from last year's 18.5% turnover rate and much lower when compared to the for-hire segment. Private fleet's average driver turnover is 14.25% over the 15-year history of the survey, and the average driver in the NPTC survey stays with a carrier for more than ten years. "That is extraordinary," Petty said.

NPTC started tracking metrics surrounding the time to hire and the hiring process for the first time. NPTC found that the average fleet has to review, screen and/or interview 19.7 candidates to fill one driver's seat, and the average time to hire a driver candidate is 34 days.

"Private fleets understand you get what you pay for," Moore stated. "They changed the mentality from speed-to-hire because they want to hire the right person.

The three top reasons for turnover are discipline issues, drivers leaving for another job, or retirement.

Moore noted: "For those leaving for another job or discipline issues, that tells me a private fleet can do a better job in the hiring process. If you're asking the right questions in the interview, you can identify what drivers are more likely to leave or will have discipline issues."

For the first time, NPTC asked fleets how much it cost to bring a driver on board. It is about $7,500 for the typical heavy-duty operation, and $3,400 for medium-duty fleets.

The survey also examined which freight movements private fleets haul and which they contract out. Private fleets typically handle about 2/3 of the outbound flow of goods and work with third-party carriers to handle the rest.

For-hire motor carriers handle 17% of all outbound freight movements, while dedicated contract carriers perform 12%. When deciding how to position the private fleet, survey respondents mention numerous inter-related and overlapping factors. The most frequently highlighted are cost, service, geography, and proximity to customers, and backhaul loads.

Empty mileage rates decreased, with an empty mileage of 26% down from last year's 33.3% and the previous year's 28.4%. NPTC found that 28% of respondents reported improved empty mileage, and Lager said reducing empty miles is top-of-mind for carriers. "There is not the luxury of being inefficient right now."

Penske Truck Leasing helps customers analyze their network to determine the best lanes to handle internally and the best to outsource.

"We have the engineering capability and capacity to analyze a customer's entire operation and make a recommendation," Lager said. "We can process the data and optimize it in several ways. It isn't always about cost; it is about delivery windows and meeting schedules. We can display all of that and help them make those decisions."

Use of on-board safety technology continues to increase, and not one respondent indicated not using on-board safety technology.

"If you're not safe, you're not going to be efficient, and the rest of the metrics don't matter," Moore said. "The safety record continued to get better and stronger and was one of the best years we ever had."

Survey participants can request customized data pulls that compares data of peer or like-kind fleets in the same market.

Petty: "It is apples-to-apples numbers they can use. This is powerful information internally. We have found once companies get on the track of scoring themselves against peers, it gives the whole benchmarking exercise a powerful boost of credibility."

By "Move Ahead" Staff

CoinAgenda (www.coinagenda.com), the premier global conference series connecting blockchain and cryptocurrency investors with startups since 2014, and BitAngels, the leading network of bitcoin and blockchain investors, today announced the fifth annual CoinAgenda Caribbean event to be held at the Miramar Events Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico on December 7-9, 2021. Tickets and agenda are available on the event page.

The three day event will include topics around: the Future of Digital assets, Crypto Banking, the Growing Utility of NFTs, Play-to-Earn Gaming, the DeFi and TradFi relationship, Latin America and Crypto, Stablecoins, Scaling Solutions, Blockchain Companies in Public Markets, Creating a Clean Crypto Future, Smart Cities, Crypto Investing Strategies, and Structuring to Protect Assets.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Brad Garlinghouse, CEO at Ripple

• Dan Morehead, CEO at Pantera Capital

• Brittany Kaiser, Executive Chair at Gryphon Digital Mining

• Michael Wagner, Co-Founder & CEO of Star Atlas 

• Robert Viglione, Co-founder & CEO of Horizen Labs

• Brock Pierce, Chairman of Bitcoin Foundation

• Bill Barhydt, Founder & CEO of ABRA

• Edward Boyle, CEO of Medici Bank

• Miles Paschini, CEO of FV Bank

• David Johnston, COO at DLTx

• James Haft, Chairman at DLTx

• Jason Cooner, President & CEO at SDG Exchange

• Dean Thomas, Global Head of Institutional Capital at Polygon

• Michael Terpin, Founder and CEO of Transform Group and CoinAgenda

• Austin Davis, Co-Founder of CommunityElectricity.io

• Erika Zapanta, Global Director of Events at Transform Group

• Irina Litchfield, Partner at Percival Capital; BitAngels City Leader Austin

• Adryenn Ashley, NFT Community Designer at Wow! Is Me, Inc.

• Justin Litchfield, CEO of Quantum Machines

• Warren Whitlock, CEO of Stirling Corp; Advisor of BitAngels

• Mario Nawfal, CEO of NFT Technologies

• Matt McKibbin, Founder of DecentraNet

• Emma Rose Bienvenu, Chief of Staff at Pantera Capital

• Brian Santos, COO at Fly Air

• Ben Sigman, CEO of Make Sense Labs

• Sean Walsh, Founder of Redwood City Ventures

• Dr. Steven Waterhouse, CEO of Orchid Labs

• Alex Nascimento, Co-founder of Blockchain at UCLA

• David Namdar, Co-founder of NFT.com

• Joel Comm, Co-Host of Bad Crypto Podcast

• Travis Wright, Co-Host of Bad Crypto Podcast

• Brian Bourgerie, InvestPR

• Joey Krug, Co-CIO at Pantera Capital

• Bryan Bullett, CEO of Bit Digital Inc.

• Liat Aaronson, COO at Horizen Labs

• Jeff Crane, CEO and Exec Producer of NFT the Movie

The conference will also feature a startup contest (in collaboration with BitAngels) where a mix of angel and VC investments (as well as tokens trading on exchanges) will pitch in a Demo Day environment to judges and the CoinAgenda audience of investors and entrepreneurs. Judges may consist of crypto funds, family offices, VCs and strategic partners. Upon completion of the presentations, three winners will be announced and 1st place will walk away with a marketing package (valued up to $10,000).

In addition, all presenters will receive a recording of their presentation, have access to the full CoinAgenda event and parties and most importantly have their decks sent to a select group of investors unable to make the event in-person, but have expressed their interest in allocating capital into new deals within the next year. To apply to pitch and inquire about the presenter fee, email contact@coinagenda.com by November 30.

This cryptocurrency investor conference will conclude each day with an all-inclusive, high-end party where speakers, sponsors and attendees can mingle at some of the most memorable venues in the city. CoinAgenda's main party, known as the “Legendary Dinner” will be held at the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, with four courses of delicious local fare, drinks, and live musical entertainment under the night sky.

“This year has been one of incredible growth in the sector, we've even seen the cryptocurrency market hit $3 trillion for the first time,” said Erika Zapanta, Global Director of Events for CoinAgenda. “We are excited to return to the growing blockchain hub of Puerto Rico to discuss the mainstreaming of digital asset investing.”

Confirmed event sponsors include:

• DLTx - DLTx is a public company listed on the Norwegian Oslo Børs Stock Exchange and is the enterprise vendor for DAOs and blockchain protocols that offers unique access to the public blockchain markets & well-priced access to funding. DLTx has developed a novel way for investors to access compelling and predictable economic returns based on the changes created by the decentralization & disruption of major global industries.

• Transform Group - Transform Group is the world's leading blockchain public relations, advisory, events and social media company, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Toronto and global headquarters in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Transform Group is dedicated to creating and sustaining industry leadership positions for its clients through superior strategy, relationships, market intelligence and consistent execution.

• Rair Tech - RAIR is a blockchain-based digital rights management platform that uses NFTs to get access to streaming content.

• Raiinmaker - Raiinmaker is a blockchain-based social engagement platform where creators and brands grow, incentivize and reward fans to build community, together.

• Blockchain Wire - Blockchain Wire is the industry's first blockchain press release distribution service focused exclusively on news about blockchain, distributed ledger technology companies, ICOs, STOs and other blockchain and cryptocurrency-related announcements. Our global reach includes broadcast and online media outlets, social media sites, industry trade publications, leading blogs and blockchain industry influencers.

For more information regarding CoinAgenda, please visit  www.coinagenda.com. 

To purchase tickets for CoinAgenda Caribbean, visit the event page: https://coinagenda.com/coinagenda-caribbean-2021/. 

For the CoinAgenda Caribbean schedule, visit https://coinagenda.com/coinagenda-caribbean-2021-schedule/.  

To learn more about Puerto Rico Blockchain Week, visit www.prblockchainweek.io.

Connect with CoinAgenda: 

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ABOUT COINAGENDA

Now in its eighth year, CoinAgenda is the leading global conference series connecting professional investors, traders, family offices and digital currency funds with top entrepreneurs in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors. CoinAgenda Caribbean focuses on international blockchain investing trends, with world-class speakers from around the globe, plus a special focus on blockchain economic development, friendly jurisdictions, the rise of security tokens, enterprise applications, and changes in digital currency funding vehicles and digital currency exchanges. CoinAgenda is an experience that allows all attendees to meet, mingle, and get to know the leading thought leaders, entrepreneurs and investors in the sector, including memorable parties at unique locations. 

In the world of International Logistics, things are, er…international. Recent letter from the FMC Commissioners to Janet Yellen for a

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-- SDG Exchange (https://sdgexchange.io/), the first-of-its-kind, global exchange platform for carbon credits and other SDG assets, today announced that its exchange and marketplace infrastructure platform is now live. 

SDG Exchange was founded to fully enable efficient, transparent and trusted global marketplaces for carbon offsets pursuant to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.   All assets listed on SDG Exchange platforms are compliant with Paris Agreement Article 6, fully verified by independent third-party auditing and meet the most rigorous standards, including ISO 14064-3.  

Carbon credits entering SDGx's Carbon Asset Monetization (CAM) marketplace are registered on blockchain, eliminating current carbon market inefficiencies including double counting, double printing, double spending, and emerging double retirement.  All transactions, custodianship, accounting and retirement are public record via immutable distributed ledger.  Carbon credits can remain as a credit, or be transferred into a digital Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMO) unit, allowing the transfer of carbon credits between countries and marketplaces globally.  Pursuant to Article 6, one ITMO equals one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent.  Asset transactions are fulfilled via Fiat, Bitcoin or Ethereum.

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SDGx delivers turnkey SDG market infrastructure for countries that require offset markets and offset solutions to meet Paris Agreement commitments (Nationally Determined Outcomes or NDCs).   As well, SDGx provides trading and custodial solutions for enterprises to meet requirements of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).  SDGx also offers an independent exchange capable of transacting in and across every market, including delivering global offset price normalization.

SDGx initial carbon credit supply are high quality regenerative agriculture carbon offset projects, fully meeting the stringent requirements of ISO 14064, and actively reduce carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (i.e. drawdown).  

“SDGx's platform delivers market infrastructure with transparency, trust, accountability, efficiency and global price normalization, which is exactly what countries and large private sector players need for global carbon offset markets to reach the scale and volume required to mitigate climate change.  We look forward to being a trusted marketplace enabler.”

Article 6 of the Paris Agreement calls for a robust global marketplace for trading carbon offsets as one of the primary tools to address climate change.  Five years later, a global consensus on market standards remains elusive. The SDGx platform is a major step forward in market standard execution.

The SDG Exchange platform has been in development for four years and is backed by a number of blockchain angel investors, including Michael Terpin (Transform Group), Nikolai Mushegian (MakerDAO), and Brock Pierce (Tether).

For more information on the SDG Exchange, please visit https://sdgexchange.io.

About SDG Exchange

SDG Exchange is the first-of-its-kind, global exchange platform enabling Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.. It seamlessly integrates all carbon markets globally, allowing for quick, safe, and profitable trading of these assets. The SDG Exchange platform uses blockchain technology to track carbon, facilitate trading, and verify compliance, providing a long-term solution for the $300B sustainability marketplace. For more information, please visit https://sdgexchange.io.

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Vodra (https://vodra.io/), an ad-free entertainment ecosystem for content creators to grow and directly monetize their audiences, today announced the first iteration of its platform and token. Designed for creators to earn income and build a steady revenue stream, Vodra enables content creators to streamline interactions with their fans in a ‘no-fees' environment. Creatives can receive one-time and recurring donations and allow audiences to crowdfund and vote on upcoming projects, while maintaining one hundred percent of the revenue via the ‘$VDR' (ERC-20 & Polygon/Matic) token, which launched via Trustpad on October 26.

Creators simply set up a profile on Vodra, which can be displayed on and integrated into existing creator platforms where audiences already are, allowing them to solicit direct-from-fan support with no fees, regardless of the size of the contributions. Additionally, creators receive a portion of $VDR tokens based on the size of their audience when they join, adding an additional source of income. Unlike most content monetization models, Vodra's efforts are supported by increasing the value of the $VDR token rather than by taking a percentage of creators' income.

“Blockchain technology has allowed us to build an ecosystem in which all users are fairly rewarded for their participation, so that creators benefit directly from the growth of the platform” explained Zachary Bys, Co-Founder of Vodra. “Unlike other models, our primary users are our foremost stakeholders, which ensures that the platform serves their interests rather than faceless shareholders.”

Additionally, Vodra makes it easy for creators to earn without having to leverage third-party and sometimes manipulative advertising models. Instead, creators have control over their content and are driven by a direct creator to audience relationship rather than creator to advertiser to audience. 

“Creators are constantly under pressure to tailor their content in an effort to appease advertisers and keep their content monetized,” said Conner Romanov, Co-founder of Vodra. “Vodra allows creators to monetize their passions without sacrificing creativity as they would have to while contending with the existing advertising-based model. Our decentralized platform is shifting online entertainment compensation towards a direct creator-to-audience participation model; this brings the interests of both creators and audiences to the forefront.”

Creator profiles are designed to be linked to existing entertainment platforms such as in a video description, creator bio, livestream panel, or pop-up. Alternatively, audiences can browse through popular creators and projects directly on the Vodra Platform. Creators will also have the option to showcase leaderboards with their top fans and designate certain rewards for their primary supporters. These options encourage a direct, fee-free connection between audience members and creators, which is mutually beneficial.

Beyond supporting and interacting with a creator through direct contributions, audience members who support creators can cast votes to determine creator content. The project voting feature enables creators to post two separate projects that can be voted on with VDR. The winning project is then funded by the amount contributed. 

The third donation utility offered on the Vodra Platform is a monthly pledging and reward tier system, allowing audiences to pledge an amount of VDR on a monthly basis to a chosen creator. Creators have the ability to customize their own contribution sizes and reward tiers. These rewards range from exclusive content, NFT's, unique experiences, or anything else a creator decides.

Vodra has a fixed supply of 2 billion VDR, of which a portion of its supply will be distributed to content creators logarithmically at an increasingly diminished rate. Once the supply is gone, those interested in acquiring Vodra Tokens can receive them in the form of donations or purchase them from vodra.io or an exchange once it is listed. VDR can be held and sent from any wallet that supports ERC20 tokens, making Vodra ideal for the numerous and often smaller denomination donations that viewers and creators enjoy. Plus, donations and transactions through the platform require no transaction or gas fees thanks to its Layer 2 solution.

For more information on Vodra, please visit https://vodra.io/home. 

ABOUT VODRA

 Vodra (http://vodra.io) is a decentralized creator compensation platform that provides audience monetization tools for content creators. Based around the ERC-20 $VDR token, Vodra aims to give creators an opportunity to capitalize on the growth of online entertainment as a whole by facilitating contributions directly to artists and creators without any additional fees.  In addition to one-time shows of support, followers and fans can schedule recurring pledges, join tiered VIP access groups, and contribute to pooled crowdfunding and voting campaigns to influence the content their favorite creators produce. 

Pollen DeFi (https://pollen.id/), the decentralized protocol that facilitates ‘hivemind' weighting of asset pools that back up market-tradable tokens, today revealed their upcoming ‘Incentivised Beta' platform release and details on how the ‘DeFi 2.0' protocol will enable its unique community-managed financial instrument. The ‘Beta' release, which goes live in December, will initially enable users to contribute to the continual balancing and rebalancing of a singular central asset pool that will back up a tradable asset token. The protocol will be open to whitelisted users who can begin building community credibility (in the form of a ‘reputation' score), compete for a position on the community leaderboard, and, in turn, will have a chance to earn mainnet Pollen ($PLN) governance tokens. 

Pollen DeFi aims to push ‘DeFi' into the ‘DeFi 2.0' era by moving beyond institutional imitation and removing centralized “middlemen”; the platform instead empowers user-curated cryptocurrency asset pools that are constantly refined via a merit-based balancing of users' portfolio suggestions. Community members are rewarded for making good decisions and subsequently gain more influence over the dynamically-rebalancing portfolio.  Alternatively, users who would prefer to turn to more qualified traders (based on proven reputation, scored by the platform) can delegate their voting power accordingly. These ‘hivemind approved' asset portfolios then back up ‘asset pool tokens' listed as easily accessible financial instruments capable of outperforming market fluctuations.  

Boosted earlier this year by strategic backers, The Graph and AlphaBit, Pollen DeFi is focused on building the ultimate ‘crypto meritocracy'; the salient, DAO-driven ‘DeFi 2.0' experience leans on the fact that the leadership team merely creates and hones the core technology and UI, ensures platform security, and facilitates user governance and ease of accessibility, while the diversity of opportunities presented within the financial instrument itself result from decentralized, community-contributed portfolio suggestions. Pollen DeFi is powered by two new tokenized assets built specifically with DeFi 2.0 in mind, the Pollen ($PLN) governance token and the native Portfolio Asset Index token ($PAI) which is backed by the total value locked (TVL) of the first and core asset pool on the platform.  Other crypto-communities, influencers, and even top-ranking Pollen DeFi users will be able to propose additional asset pools that will be continually re-balanced by user proposals and support new asset-backed tokens, similar to the $PAI token.

Pollen DeFi's move from Alpha to Beta with a dramatically upgraded protocol design is supported by an already strong community of followers wishing to begin the process of actively contributing to the balancing of the asset pool. Pollen DeFi's open-source protocol and merit-based system empowers the brightest minds in its community and incentivizes them to continually contribute. This means that $PAI token is backed by a continually rebalanced and optimized asset pool which aims to out-smart market fluctuations with overall global community intelligence ideal for the 24/7 nature of the cryptocurrency market.

Pollen DeFi Project Lead and Co-Founder, Philip Verrien, explained, “Our focus has been on rebuilding asset management from the ground up; reducing risk and volatility, while also maximizing yield and creating dynamic opportunity for anyone, regardless of their experience level; [Pollen DeFi] aims to be the embodiment of what we believe will be the next step in DeFi, and reflect the core principles of truly decentralized finance.” Pollen DeFi's community is at the center of it all; Verrien and his team have designed Pollen DeFi to be powerful and easily accessible not only for the experienced crypto traders hoping to receive community accolades and earn $PLN token rewards for sharing their alchemic index ratios, but also, for those crypto-newcomers who are more familiar with curated asset indexes from TradFi and retail crypto environments consisting of pre-vetted coins and tokens - these users will be able to use Pollen ($PLN) governance token or hold $PAI asset pool token to easily be a part of the secure and well-tuned, ‘hivemind-approved' asset portfolio. 

Pollen DeFi focuses on user participation and utility. It is designed to tackle governance and centralization issues commonplace in today's DeFi ecosystem. Focusing heavily on developing community participation incentives, and processes that build toward true decentralization, using the hivemind to put the community in control.

The $PAI token will be the first index token to be launched on the platform with its value tied to the TVL of the core asset pool. $PAI is designed to be a less volatile asset that provides a safer way to participate in the DeFi ecosystem and is designed to weather any market storm as it will be dynamically managed by the community 24/7. $PLN, on the other hand, is the governance token that allows participants to interact with the platform and is rewarded to community members who actively manage the portfolio successfully or delegate to those that do (from a leaderboard). 

Beginning in December, whitelisted users will be able to actively contribute suggestions to Pollen DeFi's first community-managed portfolio and associated asset pool token, Portfolio Asset Index ($PAI); reputation points earned during this part-testnet, part-mainnet ‘Community Release Incentivised Beta' will be ported over as part of full mainnet launch in Q1 2022. This means that whitelisted early adopters who engage with Pollen's ‘Community Release Incentivised Beta' will appear on the leaderboard once the platform is fully live on mainnet.  The Pollen DeFi team will be releasing more information regarding the community release whitelist and details for those that can participate in the coming weeks, in the meantime anyone interested can join Pollen's telegram group (https://t.me/pollen_dao) or follow @PollenDeFi on twitter. 

For more information, please visit pollen.id.

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About Pollen DeFi

Pollen DeFi (https://pollen.id/), is a first of its kind decentralized asset management ecosystem where the community builds and manages crypto asset portfolios together. Decentralized finance is designed to be by the people, for the people, and Pollen DeFi is acknowledging this by building the first, truly decentralized platform for managing tokenized asset pools. The merit-based DAO provides a reputation-based governance protocol with incentives that leverage the community's collective wisdom to curate asset pools. In this system, all users of the platform stand to benefit from the contribution of the best performing participants. Initially, the Pollen DeFi platform and its Pollen governance token ($PLN) will manage a single asset token, the Portfolio Asset Index ($PAI) token. The $PAI token will be managed 24-7 by the community and is designed to be a low volatility ‘DeFi Lego' which can be used in other protocols in the decentralized finance ecosystem. After Mainnet launch, other communities will be able to create and manage alternative asset tokens via the Pollen DeFi platform.

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