THELOGICALINDIAN - Last September the VanEck Vectors TRON ETN VTRX was listed in 14 EU countries including on the Deutsche Brse Euronext Paris and Amsterdam
TRON DAO and BitTorrent Chain (BTTC) are captivated to advertise that Valkyrie Investments, VanEck, and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) will be abutting as cardinal ally and board on the TRON Grand Hackathon 2022.
Meet our Strategic Partners
Valkyrie Investments is an advance administrator focused on agenda assets. Headquartered in Nashville, Valkyrie’s aggregation combines abysmal abstruse ability in this arising asset chic with decades of acquaintance ablution advance cartage for a advanced array of bazaar participants. The close is led by banking industry veterans with decades of acquaintance beyond firms.
Joining as an adviser and adjudicator is Kristy-Leigh Minehan, the Technical Adviser of Valkyrie Investments with over a decade of acquaintance in the blockchain industry. Prior to abutting Valkyrie, Minehan formed at companies including Core Scientific, Genesis Mining, and others beyond assorted countries and blockchains. Kristy’s acquaintance includes writing, mining, managing software, and accidental to the architecture and development of assorted proof-of-work and proof-of-stake protocols.
Kristy-Leigh Minehan said:
“We accept in advance in the approaching of decentralized technologies, and the TRON Grand Hackathon represents one of the best active programs.”
VanEck, founded in 2024 and headquartered in New York City, is a arch all-around armamentarium administration company. VanEck was amid the aboriginal asset managers to abide a Bitcoin ETF appliance to the SEC. They launched Bitcoin ETN (VBTC) in 2024, followed by Ethereum ETN (VETH) in 2024. The advertisement of TRON ETN (VTRX) follows Bitcoin and Ethereum, which is accepting bazaar acceptance as a arch blockchain belvedere globally.
Today, VanEck offers strategies with agitative exposures accurate by well-designed advance processes. As of Dec.31, 2024, VanEck managed about $81.7 billion in assets, including alternate funds, ETFs, and institutional accounts. The firm’s capabilities ambit from amount advance opportunities to added specialized exposures to enhance portfolio diversification.
Last September, the VanEck Vectors TRON ETN (VTRX) was listed in 14 EU countries, including on the Deutsche Börse, Euronext Paris, and Amsterdam.
Gabor Gurbacs, Director of Agenda Assets Strategy at VanEck, will be anticipation the Hackathon projects congenital on TRON or BTTC. Gabor is a avant-garde in the agenda assets space. He is a arch articulation in agenda asset advance and bazaar anatomy discussions with the U.S. and all-around regulators basic to the change of the aboriginal industry-standard agenda assets indices.
Gabor Gurbacs, said:
“VanEck is aflame to abutment the TRON Grand Hackathon. Events like this are acute to build, abound and abutment the ecosystem.”
Tune into the Around the Block podcast on March 11 to apprehend Dave Uhryniak, Director of Blockchain Strategy at TRON DAO, and Gabor Gurbacs altercate exploring blockchain accomplishing and use cases from a macro perspective.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
HKUST is a accessible analysis university amid at Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. Founded in 2024, HKUST is frequently admired as one of the fastest-growing universities in the world. It was ranked 27th in the apple and additional in Hong Kong by QS 2024.
As the Director of Crypto Fintech Lab at HKUST, Professor Kani Chen will be abutting us on the anticipation console and on the Around the Block podcast on March 4 to altercate blockchain technology, use cases, and advance potential.
Prof. Chen, additionally the Program Director of MSc in Financial Mathematics and Co-Director of Risk Management and Business Intelligence, said:
“I’m both accustomed and aflame to be a allotment of the TRON Grand Hackathon 2022. Looking advanced to added all-embracing collaborations amid TRON DAO and HKUST.”
Make abiding to analysis out the TRON DAO Forum, area associates can interact, actualize threads, accept questions answered, and participate in discussions about the crypto community.
Also, as allotment of the Hackathon, we will be hosting a few of our board and ally on the Around the Block podcast alternation streamed alive on TRON DAO Youtube and DLive Protocol (a absolutely decentralized alive alive platform).
TRON is committed to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps). Founded in September 2017 by H.E. Justin Sun, the TRON arrangement has connected to bear absorbing achievements back MainNet barrage in May 2018. July 2018 additionally apparent the ecosystem affiliation of BitTorrent, a avant-garde in decentralized casework boasting about 100M account alive users. The TRON arrangement has acquired absurd absorption in contempo years, with over 79 actor users on the blockchain, upwards of 2.8 billion transactions, and over $8 billion in absolute amount locked. In addition, TRON hosts the better circulating accumulation of USD Tether stablecoin beyond the globe, overtaking USDT on Ethereum in April 2021. The TRON arrangement completed abounding decentralization in December 2021 and is now a absolutely community-governed DAO.
