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WAX (Worldwide Asset EXchange)
WAX (Worldwide Asset eXchange) is a purpose-built Layer-1 blockchain designed for NFTs, blockchain gaming, and digital collectibles, offering fast, low-cost, carbon-neutral transactions. It serves gamers, NFT collectors, creators, and dApp developers, and partners with major brands and platforms such as Amazon, Epic Games Store, Funko, and Disney to bring web3 content to mainstream audiences.
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WAX operates a purpose-built blockchain platform optimized for NFT minting, trading, and blockchain gaming, reporting over 15.3 million accounts, 3,000+ transactions per second, 200K+ daily active wallets, and 450M+ NFTs created, while being 100% carbon neutral. Its ecosystem includes infrastructure and products such as the WAX Explorer (block explorer), WAX Labs (funding/grants program), Cloud Wallet, and bridge technology connecting WAX to Solana, Ethereum, BNB Chain, TON, Polygon, and Base for fee-free token transfers. WAX collaborates with major brands and platforms — including Amazon Web Services (via Amazon Managed Blockchain), Amazon Prime Gaming, Epic Games Store, Funko, Droppp, Disney, Star Wars, Mattel, NASCAR, and Hasbro — to bring blockchain gaming and collectibles to a broad consumer audience. The ecosystem also supports DeFi activity such as WAXP staking (~8% APY) for block producer voting, liquid staking via WAXFusion, and decentralized exchange trading via Alcor, TacoSwap, and Uniswap, serving developers, gamers, NFT collectors, and creators building on the WAX blockchain.Grant Funding
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2022
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$10M