This achievement comes at an exciting time for Upstream, a MERJ Exchange market, which has made great progress in recent months. Since the beginning of the year, we’ve welcomed three dual listing issuers — Nutriband (Upstream: NTRB), Jupiter Wellness (Upstream: JUPW), and Creatd (Upstream: CRTD) — to our blockchain-powered market. This is only the beginning. Upstream is maintaining a strong pipeline of dual listing applicants from Nasdaq, NYSE, CSE, and other markets from around the world which supports our mission to bring global access to public securities.
As a Web3 market, Upstream issuers are also taking advantage of our digital coupon NFT strategy to turn shareholders into customers and customers into shareholders. Issuers may launch digital coupons to their shareholders to reward them, drive buzz towards initiatives, and bring new potential customers in.
As the only regulated market for creating and selling NFTs to a global community, Upstream’s NFT market has also played a role in building our trading hub. We’ve worked with musicians, athletes, universities and our issuers to successfully launch more than 55 NFT campaigns, with 301,635 live NFTs on Upstream’s NFT market as of March. These NFT campaigns showed off Upstream’s unique methodology to make NFTs accessible, utility-focused, and low cost for the masses. We powered campaigns launching ticket NFTs, NFTs that enabled fans to redeem for physical merchandise and experiences and are actively working on larger NFT/Web3 strategies to continue ushering in the new wave of digital collectibles.
Significance of 5k unique Upstream wallets (a blockchain-perspective)
The level of transparency provided by Upstream’s blockchain-powered markets is a key benefit. Upstream is proud that our 5,000 users represent 5,000 unique Upstream wallets.
In addition to enforcing transparency with direct access to Upstream’s market, real-time trading using on-chain orderbooks, another prevented predatory market practice enforced by blockchain technology is wash trading.
Wash trading is an illegal practice where investors buy and sell the same financial instruments at the same time in order to manipulate the market.
Dune Analytics research suggested that over $30B on the NFT trading volume on Ethereum in 2022 was wash trading¹, meaning a wallet address selling an NFT was the same wallet address buying the NFT, or same wallet owner.
Upstream and the 4M lines of code backing it has sophisticated back-office wash trading protection.
When users download Upstream and enter a password, an Upstream wallet with a unique keystore is created for traders to hold and protect their digital assets on their smart device. When a user wishes to withdraw funds from their Upstream account, a user must complete a short KYC check to verify their identity. Funds are also only ever able to go to the bank account a user has entered during KYC, which protects both the user and the community from bad actors attempting to transact with multiple wallets.
Conclusion
We’re thrilled with the progress we’ve made in recent months; with the addition of three dual listing issuers and successful NFT campaigns, we’ve reached our 5k user milestone. We’re excited to continue our goal of welcoming the future of trading.
Upstream is actively accepting dual-listing applications from NASDAQ, NYSE, OTC Markets & international issuers that are seeking to offer their shares to a modern-day investor pool that accepts USDC cryptocurrency and traditional payments. Learn more at: https://upstream.exchange/GetListed or reach the team at hello@upstream.exchange.
For our growing investor community, we are just getting started on introducing unique issuers to the platform to browse. Download today at https://upstream.exchange.
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