To Move Ahead, Look Back: How Our Members See 2021 and What Are Their Future Plans

Businesses need to plan and predict many things — and yet, some seem less probable than others (until they come true). Similar can be said for the covid19 pandemic, which has turned our lives upside down and challenged us in ways we couldn’t even imagine. Did that stop our members? By no means, no! The first rule of entrepreneurship is not to give up, meaning that every crisis can be turned into an opportunity. Let’s take a look at what 2021 has brought to our members in this manner.

LUCIS

Visit their page: https://www.lucis.si/

Lucis has recorded a breakthrough year in several aspects, evident in the scope of work, employment rates and new long-term business contracts. The team has successfully carried out many relevant projects, highlighting the renovation of the Teleradiology Network in Slovenia, creating four new national clinical registries, and continuing successful international cooperation with the most prominent Swiss casino. These are reasons to work even hard this year to strengthen and increase the team, transfer knowledge and grow the company culture. They also plan to obtain ISO certificates in quality assurance and information security.

VIBERATE

Visit their page: https://www.viberate.com/

During the year, which also brought many challenges, Viberate worked the most to develop and strengthen business ties and bring data analytics industry-wide. As a result, colleges and courses are now applying their analytics, and business and media partnerships bring data insights to international audiences. At the same time, they have started working with a top 3 European collective society for music rights. The team have also launched a series of free online webinars, where various industry experts tackle relevant issues. Last but not least, they have just put out a super interesting review of the music industry in 2021. Read their State of Music Industry report here: https://report.viberate.com/.

NIFTIFY™

Visit their page: https://www.niftify.io/

The popularity of NFTs is spreading like wildfire, and everyone is trying to onboard the movement. Therefore, the year 2021 was mind-blowing for Niftify. Here’s a snippet of what they have accomplished in just nine months:

— $4.6m raised from 20+ VCs, 25+ Angels, and 5000+ individuals.
— Grew team to 50+ members from all around the globe
— Established partnerships with 15+ world-class artists and businesses
Experienced a 14,000% oversubscribed public sale of the $NIFT token
— Listed $NIFT on four trusted and well-known exchanges (Gate.io, MEXC, BitMart, Bittrex Global)
— Launched the world’s first fully compliant NFT marketplace in record time
— Sold out the first NFT drop with legendary rapper Ice-T and Grammy Award-winning artist Tommy the Animator
— Added L2 solution (Polygon)
— Opened marketplace for U.S. citizens

In 2022, the team is focused on PaaS, SaaS, Whitelabel solutions, simplifying the platform for non-tech savvy users as well as on established relationships (Government, Aerospace, CPG, Travel) to explore and launch Proof of Concepts in an entirely new field (The Real-World Asset NFT).

Propped with state-of-the-art technologies, compelling features, and products, as well as young minds with a comprehensive understanding of blockchain technology, Niftify is an example of the rising project that is the world’s first fully compliant NFT marketplace with B2C, B2B, B2B2C, and B2G NFT solutions, a product under very high demand due to its compliant nature.

NETIS with AceBlock

Link: https://www.netis.si

In terms of business, Netis mainly focused on further developing the AceBlock framework that enables companies to transform their business using decentralized, distributed and self-sovereign technologies. They have big news for AceID, their self-sovereign identity (SSI) stack, as they will soon offer SSI SDK-s for Android and iOS, supporting infrastructure and white-label wallet possibilities. The AceID wallet app was also successfully submitted to Google Play and is now undergoing additional internal tests to ensure the solution is ready for EBSI’s Conformance Testing. After, the app will be presented to Apple’s App Store.

They have also completed an essential development phase for AceSpace, next-generation storage. Currently, they are finalizing the AceSpace MVP as a storage agent for three operating systems (Mac, Linux, Windows) and will soon distribute the demo to privacy-aware communities.

Many of Aceblock’s technologies have already been used in real-world projects: Arctur with Tourism 4.0 applied the SSI technology features in their DOTI tourist app via AceID Android SDK. Furthermore, electricity provider Gen-I and other consortium partners in the E-mobility project built Div-ee-app using various AceID’s and AceSpace’s stack features.

One of Netis’ key focuses in 2022 remains the cooperation on the project EBSI (European Blockchain Services Infrastructure), which is surging ahead, receiving strong approval within the EU. Since 2018, 29 countries have joined forces to build blockchain-based cross-border services for public administrations, manifesting in a distributed blockchain node network in 2020. Several blockchain use-cases will soon be presented, opening up new opportunities for Netis, as their experts have been part of the EBSI core team since the beginning and are actively involved in creating and designing this blockchain architecture.

ELIGMA with GoCrypto

Visit their page: https://elly.com & https://gocrypto.com/

As said by Eligma, 2021 was a year full of significant achievements. They have opened two new markets (Romania and UK), and newly signed on first merchants in several countries, making GoCrypto solution available in 68 countries worldwide.

They were also thrilled to announce that China’s payment giants WeChat Pay and AliPay are available on Elly POS terminals. Besides, they integrated Binance pay, allowing millions of Binance users to pay with crypto at brick and mortar stores.

In collaboration with Global Payments Inc., the team have begun to promote GP Tom, an app that works on any device and processes crypto payments through the GoCrypto solution. Besides, they have also partnered with hardware POS suppliers such as NexGO and PAX, guaranteeing the supply of hardware POS devices

Apart from that, the GoC token was listed on three new exchanges (CoinFLEX, PancakeSwap and BitMart) and introduced to a much wider crypto community, with Crypto.com Price Bot integrated into their Go.Crypto Telegram Group, enabling the GoC token price tracking directly in the group in real-time.

Moving forward, they have published their brand new Roadmap, showcasing what they will be working on in the upcoming years on the Elly products, GoCrypto, and GoC tokenomics department. See it for yourself.

ARCTUR

Visit their page: https://www.arctur.si/ & https://tourism4-0.org/

In 2021, Arctur mainly recorded activities in public blockchain promotion on the domestic and international stages, focusing on innovative tools being developed in the Tourism 4.0 project and the activities of the Arctur HPC Center while educating the critical public of what blockchain technology is all about. Among other significant achievements is the signed memorandum between Tourism 4.0 and AEI Torusim Innova Gran Canaria (Spain), formalizing the long-lasting cooperation between the two parties regarding bilateral and EU projects, joint activities, and knowledge transfer to support data-driven strategic planning in sustainable development in both countries. Apart from that, the Tourism 4.0 project has also been welcomed in the Connect4Climate global partnership, launched by the World Bank Group, supporting ambitious leadership, promoting transformative solutions and empowering collective actions.

BC VAULT

For BC Vault, 2021 was beyond successful. Besides all the technical upgrades, they grew organically without additional spending on marketing activities.

They launched two limited models at the beginning of 2021 (Diamond edition and Goldfinger edition). In the following months, they signed new partnerships with WYRE, Crypto.com, SIMPLEX, Genesis BLOCK, BlockBank, Coinify. They also appointed a representative in the U.S. market and doubled their sales numbers.

Apar that, BC Vault received several honest reviews from influencers; however, the accolade they hold the closest to their heart is that their community named them »Best rated hardware wallet« with a score EXCELLENT at Trustpilot.

In 2022, they will continue with their mission to offer users the most secure hardware wallet on the market by adding support for popular cryptocurrencies, improving technology and expanding their international presence.

GOLDHORN

Link: https://www.goldhorn-crypto.com/

Together with their trusted partner ICONOMI, GoldHorn Crypto®, and Solidum Capital have executed one of the world’s first Crypto Strategies merger & acquisitions (M & M&A) in the world. To be more precise, two Crypto Strategies operated by Solidum Capital have been acquired by GoldHorn Crypto® and merged with two existing crypto strategies in the first half of December 2021. Therefore, today, GoldHorn Crypto® operates eight different Crypto Strategies on the ICONOMI platform, with over 1.100 copiers with €2.200.000,00 assets that copy these strategies, focusing on organic growth based on trust and user experience.

WHAT ABOUT BAE?

We too have many things to report. As we have already pointed out, the way we interact with our members and the community has changed, and we have met many new partners online. Still, we are proud to have made relevant new alliances nationally and abroad and welcomed several new members.

That said, we are happy to say that more and more companies recognize us as a the-go platform for business networking in the blockchain world and will work hard to maintain this position in the future. One of our key tasks remains to educate the public about the meaningful use of blockchain, which we will keep on doing by organizing events and training on relevant topics in the blockchain and crypto world. Are you already curious which one will be first? We’ll discuss NFTs and their enormous popularity soon! Stay tuned.