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Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol, delivered the keynote, and Sergej Kunz, Co-Founder of 1Inch, gives updates about his company since completing Batch 1. Felix Machart, Investor at Greenfield One, provides insights into his investment thesis and acted as moderator.

Batch 2 consists of 10 seed-stage startups. At OWC Demo Day 2021, they showcase their DApps and allow us to explore the future of DeFi (decentralized finance) through DEXes (decentralized exchanges) and banking solutions for the unbanked, NFTs (digital art), users monetizing gameplay for themselves and more.

Batch 2 companies include:

*Vorto Gaming created Hash Rush, an online sci-fi/fantasy RTS “Play-to-Earn” blockchain-enabled game. VZ Games build a free-to-access community, with its own digital currency that would become the foundation in a new era of gaming experiences; not just profitable for the developer and publisher, but for the gamer too.
https://vortogaming.com/

*Mintgate is turning any online content into exclusive rewards. Mintgate’s token economy incentivizes early followers to use their network and resources to support a community or a creator, and then redistributes the added-value back to the backers.
https://www.mintgate.io/

*Pesa (now WifiCoin) is creating a decentralized carrier that transforms voice, cellular, and wifi networks into tradable resources. Currently, Pesa has a partnership with 37 airlines for in-flight internet and serves more than 68 million hotspots.
https://wificoin.com/

*Heo Finance is the first stablecoin powered crowdfunding platform that removes geographical limitations and pays out rewards to donors. Each donation results in daily farming of tokens that allows donors to receive 2X to 10X of their donation in return.
https://www.heo.finance/

*Verida is developing the future of decentralized data. Verida enables developers to build web & mobile apps where users own their data. Their library provides a decentralized single sign-on, data sharing, and profile management that fully integrates with the Verida Vault.
https://www.verida.io/

*Paras lets you create, trade, and collect digital art cards on NEAR Protocol. Since its release in December 2020, Paras has managed to release 472 minted cards with a trading volume of 16000 NEAR.
https://paras.id/

*Vezt is the 1st mobile app where music fans can share royalty rights for songs & recordings. You can buy royalty rights for artists such as Maluma, Panic! At The Disco, and Blond Don.
https://www.vezt.co/

*Kamix helps the African diaspora send remittances to family for free. Currently operating in Cameroon, they will soon launch in Nigeria.

*Sarcophagus is a general-purpose decentralized dead man’s switch built on ethereum and Arweave. It is triggered if the human operator becomes incapacitated due to death, loss of consciousness, or being physically removed from control. Use cases include but are not limited to wills and trusts, password recovery, credential passdown, political activism, key material backup, and emergency communication.
https://sarcophagus.io/

*Nym is building the next generation of privacy infrastructure for Web3. Fear of big tech, privacy, and data intrusion is driving consumers to adopt a privacy cautious attitude. The Nym mixnet is fully decentralized, with no trusted third parties such as a VPN. NYM supports a high volume of service and low latency through network incentives.
https://nymtech.net/