Thread by @yqboom

$SMR updates that people want to know about.

All in one thread. 🧵

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#Shimmer #SMR #IOTA $IOTA

The Focus is, as you can tell, on $SMR Touchpoint updates.

What is a touchpoint?

As an open builders program, Touchpoint leverages the power of the community to provide access to tailored support, world-class expertise and smart money.

Touchpoint to currently hosts 35+ projects across DeFi, gaming, NFTs, and other verticals.

All on #shimmer

The program does not have a set curriculum.

Touchpoint is modular and flexible by design.

It allows participants to collaborate with other program participants, or connect with the Touchpoint team to get frequent and honest input.

From smart contract to token economic experts, collaborate with a growing community of subject matter experts and support DAOs.

It also allows hands-on support with fundraising from experts.

As well as intros to backers / Investors of the Shimmer ecosystem that are committed to supporting ecosystem projects.

The $SMR Touchpoint News:

Crypto Finance Group x Shimmer (First Regulated Custody Brokerage)

Zokyo Joined Touchpoint

IotaOrigin Joined Touchpoint

Resonate Finance Joined Touchpoint

TangleHUB joined Touchpoint

Crypto Finance Group

Touchpoint added its first regulated custody and brokerage provider for $SMR just yesterday.

Crypto Finance Group is the first prudentially regulated custody and brokerage provider supporting SMR, the native token of the Shimmer network.

This is the latest development in the long-standing partnership between the Swiss-based storage provider and the IOTA Foundation.

Crypto Finance was the first professional IOTA token storage provider, which served the needs of financial intermediaries/partners across industries.

With the integration of the SMR token, investors from private and institutional sectors will be able to trade and store SMR tokens in a regulatory-compliant manner, as Crypto Finance Group is a FINMA-regulated service provider and part of Deutsche Börse Group.

Zokyo

2022 is the most expensive year for web3 hacks and exploits by far.

For this reason, $SMR is welcoming Zokyo, a security auditing firm and venture studio that builds, funds, and secures crypto, DeFi, and NFT companies.

Zokyo will bring its security services to Touchpoint participants, including penetration testing, infrastructure testing, smart contract services, and protocol auditing services.

Zokyo (zo-ki-yo) secures, funds, and builds Web3 companies.

Iota origin

IotaOrigin is both a traceability system that uses $IOTA to ensure compliance with international minerals laws and a DeFi platform for trade in critical commodities for the energy transition built on Shimmer.

IotaOrigin’s DeFi platform uses fractionalizable financial NFTs to represent real-world assets (RWAs) which are tradeable in NFTpools to ensure sufficient liquidity for real-world assets and commodities on-chain.

Resonate Finance

Resonate Finance a Yield Futures Protocol, introduces the power of financial NFTs (FNFT) technology to the Shimmer network.

With an exploding DeFi sector, Resonate Finance wields a first-mover advantage into an early-stage and growth-promising ecosystem built on Shimmer, the L1 staging and validation network of the IOTA distributed ledger technology.

Resonate's Financial NFTs are quite an interesting concept. They remind me of bonds, in a strange web 3 way.

TangleHUB : PIPE

TangleHUB is a Netherlands-based team responsible for PIPE, a decentralized data storage and communication infrastructure for any use case, from edge micro-storage to high-frequency IoT and communication applications.

By joining Touchpoint, TangleHUB introduced PIPE to the Shimmer Ecosystem to provide developers with a highly scalable and IOTA-native alternative to InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).

PIPE makes it simple and secure to store and manage your data, whether you want to keep it private, share it with someone you trust, or sell it on a data market.

There's much more $SMR and $IOTA are working on, but this is it for this thread.

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