Jun 27, 2022
Unizen Pulse #19: Special Edition
Unizen Secures $200 Million Capital Commitment from GEM to Accelerate Growth
Unizen Exchange today announces a $200m USD capital commitment by Global Emerging Markets (“GEM”); a $3.4 billion Private Equity Giant with offices in New York, Paris and Nassau Bahamas.
GEM is an alternative investment group that manages a diverse set of investment vehicles focused on emerging markets and has completed over 530 transactions in 70 countries covering 5 continents.
Unizen is pioneering the future CeDeFi landscape and will utilise this investment commitment to expand the organisation, bolster the Innovation & Marketing pipeline, and rapidly accelerate execution of the trade aggregation ecosystem.
With the upcoming addition of the Unizen trade aggregation modules, Unizen will become the first CeDeFi Exchange to combine the functionality of first-party and third-party CEX’s and DEX’s in order to meet the needs of both retail and institutional traders.
The Unizen Exchange is designed to find the most cost-efficient trades across a multitude of exchange modules, including Binance, to provide the best offers, reliable performance, and a secure environment for high-volume trading, all in one seamless user experience.
GEM selected Unizen with an aim to have a hand in technology that will shape the future of finance. The firm’s bet on CeDeFi is in line with the need of the hour across the blockchain industry, combining compliance of CeFi with the innovation that DeFi brings. With GEM’s capital commitment, Unizen aims to provide users with the best offers, reliable performance, and a secure environment for high-volume trading, all in one seamless user experience.
In addition to leading Trade Aggregation Innovation, Unizen is actively fostering innovation via ZenX Labs, a CeDeFi Incubator that supports decentralised projects, empowering their growth with technical expertise and growth management as well as ensuring its full compliance.
ZCX token holders benefit from the growth of incubated projects via the Dynamic Multi Asset Staking (DMAS) which allows the community to share rewards reflecting the long-term success of the projects in incubation.
The Unizen (ZCX) token is available on major exchanges including Kucoin, Gate, MEX, BitMart and Uniswap.
Sean Noga, CEO of Unizen comments:
“We are proud to welcome GEM to the Unizen Ecosystem as a potent and strategically aligned growth partner that can support the rapid expansion of the Unizen platform, brand and community.”
Exchange Listing Announcement: FMFW.io
We are proud to announce the listing of $ZCX on FMFW.io, an exchange with 1.2 million users and providing deep liquidity to 80+ Financial Institutions within standardised API frameworks.
To support the listing FMFW has announced a $10,000 Trading Competition enabling our community to climb to the top of the leaderboard by trading the ZCX/USDT pair on FMFW.io
Find out more information here: https://fmfw.io/trading-contest/152
James Taylor, Unizen Chief Business Officer featured in Forbes
Unizen Chief Business Officer, James Taylor, was recently featured in the Forbes article on the Terra Crisis and its implications on the CeDeFi construct.
“The fundamental reason behind Luna’s collapse was due to the complication of managing the UST peg across centralized and decentralized trading venues,” opines James Taylor of CeDeFi exchange Unizen, “The attacker cleverly chose Curve stableswap to attack the protocol which imposed the maximum damage and incited panic.”
Read the full article here;
Final Word
We are delighted to announce our collaboration and investment commitment with GEM, which will solidify and accelerate our development and innovation pipeline for the future of the Unizen Ecosystem.
In the coming week we will issue a special update on the 4th July on DSR (Dynamic Sales Release) relating to early investor token release. Watch this space for more details to follow.
Website: https://www.unizen.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/unizen_io?s=21
The Unizen Ecosystem is housing and aggregating trades across trusted first- and third-party exchange modules to enable a ZEN state of mind for traders.
Unizen is the first CeDeFi exchange to combine the functionality of first-party and third-party CEX’s and DEX’s in order to meet the needs of both retail and institutional traders. Unizen Exchange is able to find the most cost-efficient trades across a multitude of exchange modules, including Binance, to provide the best offers, reliable performance, and a secure environment for high-volume trading. All in one seamless user experience.
