What is Gnosis? Gnosis is a collective of aligned projects revolutionizing payments infrastructure to make decentralized financial tools accessible and usable for all The Gnosis ecosystem is underpinned by Gnosis Chain, a highly secure, resilient, and decentralized EVM-compatible layer 1 network and also includes the venture-building arms, Gnosis Studio and Gnosis Capital, the developer, investor, and incubator of a host of leading decentralized solutions. These projects are creating a radically inclusive infrastructure helping bridge the gap between blockchain technology and practical, everyday applications/use cases. What is the history of Gnosis? Idealistic engineers who believe in restoring people's control over their own lives through building open financial tooling, Gnosis evolved and created industry standard applications such as the Gnosis Safe (multisig and programmable account), Cow Protocol (formerly CowSwap and Gnosis Protocol), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), Gnosis Auction, Zodiac (standard and tooling for composable DAOs). Most recently Gnosis launched, Gnosis Pay, which allows users to spend crypto anywhere through the Gnosis VISA-supported debit card, and more. What role does GNO play in the Gnosis ecosystem? GNO is the staking token of Gnosis Chain and the governance token for the GnosisDAO and an index token for the Gnosis ecosystem. Gnosis Ventures incubates, invests in, and supports projects in all early stages, spinning incubated projects out where appropriate. The relationship between these ventures and the token can take several forms: Either GNO is used as a token directly or the Gnosis token is economically coupled with the project tokens. What education resources does Gnosis have for developers? The Gnosis Chain doc site is a comprehensive resource for developers building on Gnosis Chain: https://docs.gnosischain.com/ What is the governance model for Gnosis? The Gnosis ecosystem is governed through the GnosisDAO, with voting power distributed amongst GNO token holders. As a DAO, anyone can participate in decision making about the development of Gnosis. We are a vibrant community founded on the values of early Ethereum. Use your voice to take a stand on issues, weigh in on proposals, and shape the future of Gnosis. How does Gnosis foster developer adoption and support the growth of its ecosystem? Gnosis Capital invests in early-stage web3 projects that are poised to make significant contributions to closely aligned projects in the flourishing Gnosis ecosystem. The Gnosis treasury is governed by the GnosisDAO with voting power distributed amongst GNO holders. As a DAO, Gnosis also uses the products that it creates to transparently guide decisions on the development, support, and governance of its own ecosystem.

Pundi X is the project that wants to make spending crypto as easy as a credit card. Creators of the NPXS token hope that it will one day be used on their Ethereum-based Point-of-Sale devices. This approach could give basic banking services to underdeveloped regions like Latin America and Indonesia. One of the most notorious pain points in crypto is the ability to actually make purchases. Pundi X cryptocurrency plans to change all that by distributing hundreds to thousands of point-of-sale smart devices to retailers so they can accept payment in the form of NPXS, the network’s proprietary crypto token. If it can distribute the devices for free and with lower transaction fees than current card and mobile payment solutions provide, it’s a grand-slam idea. Pundi X raised $35 million during its ICO from September 2017 through January 21, 2018. 35,000,000,000 NPXS (at the time known as PXS) were sold during the ICO presale and crowd sale. The team retained 15,750,000 and another 1,750,000,000 was distributed to early investors and the rest was held by Pundi X for further development and marketing. It also set aside 2 percent of sold tokens to fund bounty programs across social media and online platforms. The Pundi X team are a talented group of technologists and entrepreneurs, which seems to be exactly what this project will need for success. In general the management team is comprised of computer engineers turned serial entrepreneur. The glaring exception to this is CEO and founder Zac Cheah, who was formerly an HTML games developer, but perhaps this is why he surrounded himself with such a strong team. The President of Pundi X, Constantin Papadimitrou, has a long history of founding successful fintech companies, and scaling them, which makes him an ideal fit for a project that will need rapid growth and adoption. The CTO/COO Pitt Huang created and sold his first business by the age of 25 and went on to create and sell several more business, including one that had over 200 employees. The company is working on developing a card, which they are naming the XPASS card, which will work together with the mobile app and wallet, enabling payments and deposits by card (a familiar medium for most) that are pulled from the mobile wallet. In addition, users should be able to see the current market price of each cryptocurrency before paying for goods and services, allowing them to pay with the cryptocurrency that brings the best value at the time. This ability to pay for things easily with cryptocurrencies is what will finally give them real value in a widespread sense. Pundi X has taken on an impressive and ambitious task in tackling what could amount to everyday adoption of cryptocurrencies by the masses, if their vision is realized. The technology seems appropriate for what they’re attempting, and the delivery of the first 500 POS devices shows that there is substance behind their efforts."