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2020: The largest hedge fund of the USA selects domains at Universa Blockchain

On July 23, 2020 it became known that the largest hedge fund of the USA Universa Investments selects domains at the Russian technology company Universa Blockchain. And does it against laws.

The founder of Universa Blockchain Alexander Borodich published on the Medium portal the message in which told that in 2019 Universa Investments, "breaking all rules of international law and common sense", through the American court and the ICANN organization took away the domain universa.io from the Russian company. At the same time neither Universa Blockchain, nor zone. IO has no relation to the USA.

As a result the startup lost "all acquired touches and contacts and also access to e-mail *** @universa.io, to financial and other services which the company used through this email.

Universa Investments selects domains at the Russian technology company Universa Blockchain

Universa Blockchain was forced to replace the domain with universablockchain.com, at the same time having suffered financial and reputation losses. But Universa Investments did not stop: the hedge fund began to file claims for the domains universa.com (it is registered in 2001, in 6 years prior to emergence of Universa Investments company) and universablockchain.com (Universa Blockchain registered it before registration of the Universa Investments trademark).

The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has a website kremlin.ru. The American colleagues register the Kremlin trademark, win court in the USA and require from ICANN to switch the domain to them on the basis of ownership of a trademark in the territory of the USA. Sounds wildly, but it also happened to universa.io — Alexander Borodich compared.

He told that he tried to settle issues with the founder of Universa Investments L.P Mark Shpitsnagel, but lawyers of the American company refused.

Universa Blockchain appealed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation about the help in protection of the rights at the international level.^[1]

2018

Agreements on opening a blockchain academy in China and Russia

At the end of March, 2018 Universa Blockchain of Alexander Borodich signed partnership agreements with the State association of a blockchain of Hong Kong and Shanghai Business School within which Universa will open in Shanghai and Russia the blockchain academy.

Partnership of Universa with Association of a blockchain of Hong Kong assumes creation of the innovation platform of exchange of technologies of the distributed digital registers, creation of laboratory of research and development for start of joint projects in Hong Kong and an economic zone of Shanghai (the city of Shanghai, Chanxing, Hangzhou, Huzhou, Suzhou, Jiaxing with the general population about 45 million people).

Other agreement was devoted to education and training of specialists in the field of technology of the distributed registers. A blockchain academy of Universa it will be created within The Belt and Road Blockchain Cooperation Education Alliance association with the headquarters in the city of Shanghai, with assistance of the government of Shanghai and Shanghai Institute of Commercial Development for training of programmers and training in the field of implementation of blockchain technology. Specialists in the field of digital data, cryptography and a blockchain from the Russian Federation and China will act as teachers.

Our partnership with colleagues from China in general will be concentrated on implementation and development of a blockchain. The technology of the distributed registers will continue to develop in the world market irrespective of volatility of cryptocurrencies. But so far the industry there is not enough personnel. Training in Academy will be focused on young graduate students, entrepreneurs and businessmen, students of last years of the universities of Shanghai and suburbs. This training — acceleration in a blockchain centers of Hong Kong with further employment in the company of continental China — the founder of a blockchain of Universa Alexander Borodich told.

EY and blockchain of Universa became partners

In January, 2018 hectares fields of the World Economic Forum in Davos EY and Universa Blockchain Platform company agreed about strategic partnership. Cooperation of the companies will be performed in the field of implementation and promotion of the products based on blockchain technology focused on solving of tasks of the real sector of economy and public administration.

As the technology partner on implementation the NORBIT company will act (enters into LANIT group). Within partnership it is planned that experts of NORBIT will provide technical expertize, to help to build in to clients blockchain technology the available infrastructure, to start full solutions and to provide their support and development.

2017

Less than during a day of Token Sale attracted more than 10 million dollars

The blockchain for the real sector of economy of Universa in the first watch of Token Sale (in October, 2017) collected over 10 million dollars. Part was taken by investors from around the world. For the entire period of a campaign it is going to sell tokens for the amount 99 million dollars at the price of 1 cent apiece.

During the first hours Token Sale on the blockchain website - Universa.io were made DDoS attack and harmful actions of scammers. The Universa command successfully reflected them using several tens not indifferent investors.

ApexFree invests 7 million dollars in Universa Blockchain Platform

The community ApexFree Platform Services within development of the IT project, is going to invest 7 million dollars in Universa Blockchain Platform – the protocol and a blockchain platform for creation of the business applications focused on solving of tasks of the real sector of economy. Integration of ApexFree Platform Services and Universa Blockchain Platform will become result of the transaction that will allow to offer users solution SaaS for implementation of fast and inexpensive microtransactions based on blockchain technology and smart contracts.

Owners of the ApexFree Platform Services platform expect to expand its opportunities and scope of application. In the solution using API Gateway Platform Services ApexFree connection of services and other software solutions is planned, the platform intends for automation and robotization of management of information flows, carrying out payments and documents, was also going to develop own Blockchain Platform. Taking into account readiness of blockchain technologies of the platform, Universa it will be used as means of transaction logging and the related metadata. This solution was selected because it is some and quickest and reliable implementations of a blockchain with the minimum cost and high time of transaction processing.

The ApexFree project manager Ilya Petrov noted: "We suggest to use Blockchain + API for instant data transmission. This solution is profitable in terms of operating costs and completely guarantees safety of processes. The parties can instantly make payments, exchange data and documents and, at the same time, the relations between participants remain most protected".