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Blockchain startups in Bulgaria

  • How to create your own crypto exchange in Bulgaria?

    How to create your own crypto exchange in Bulgaria?

     

    The creation of a financial project related to the trading of crypto-currencies in Bulgaria is a process that hides several detailed questions, having for its object specific legal, financial and technological aspects. Crypto exchanges are digital market, financial platforms that allow users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency exchanges may also support trading in other digital assets, such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Cryptocurrency exchanges function similarly to traditional exchanges with two important exceptions: there is no physical presence in trading, i.e. crypto exchanges are strictly digital markets. Cryptocurrency exchanges are similar to digital money markets, except that the majority of supported currencies are cryptocurrencies. Crypto exchanges also support a number of fiat (issued by governments) currencies, and trade in so-called stable coins (from the English "stable coins"), which are one-to-one with a specific fiat currency (for example, the crypto currencies USDT and USDC are one-to-one one with dollars).

    In order to start the implementation of such a project, the legal and regulatory framework, the necessary licensing regimes and the means of collaboration with the legal entities that would trade cryptocurrencies, including their creators, should be analyzed in detail. As I already mentioned, crypto exchanges are blockchain platforms through which cryptocurrencies are traded, and they are also a technological tool that provides liquidity in the market, but also legal and software security, in order to guarantee the transfer of funds and unification in a common instrument of demand and the supply of blockchain financial assets. There are different types of crypto exchanges – crypto brokers, centralized exchanges and decentralized exchanges depending on the technological, financial, regulatory and legal approach of each such project.

  • The hottest blockchain startups in Bulgaria.

    The hottest blockchain startups in Bulgaria.

     

    Bulgaria and local dev community haven’t been too vocal about this, but it seems that the country has an important stake in the global blockchain ecosystem. With a growing community around the technology (not the fading crypto enthusiasm), the global acceleration program of platform Aeternity for blockchain startups and the investment company Belayer based in Sofia, a Balkan Blockchain Association seem to be well positioned on the map.

    Currently, there are around 30 companies in Bulgaria, both service and product-oriented ones, which leverage blockchain technology in an attempt to develop viable products that serve real business needs. “The majority of blockchain companies right now are part of the transition from a centralized to a decentralized economy. A lot of them are still using decentralized components to solve problems but still have a centralized point of strategic decision-making. The most interesting projects are the ones that change the whole paradigm and really manage to confirm the viability and sustainability of decentralized models of governance and operation. This will not happen overnight.”, Vladislav Dramaliev from aetertnity, told us.  Currently, there are around 30 companies in Bulgaria, both service and product, which leverage the blockchain tech in one way or another, in attempt to develop viable products that serve real business needs.

    Here’s the list of the scalable product projects that might have found a way to utilize the technology to solve problems, instead of finding the problem for the blockchain solution. We’ve mostly looked at products beyond the crypto bubble. You can find below what is each of them doing.