Vancouver, British Columbia – November 8, 2021- WonderFi Technologies Inc. (NEO: WNDR)(OTC:WONDF) (the “Company” or “WonderFi”) today announced its investment in the Solana ecosystem through the Incentive Ecosystem Foundation, which includes Solana and Serum as the two largest weighted assets.
Solana is a high performance programmable blockchain capable of executing up to 50,000 transactions per second, and is directly competing with Ethereum for dominance in decentralized finance (“DeFi”), gaming, payments, and more. WonderFi’s investment and participation in the rapidly growing Solana ecosystem aligns with the Company’s focus on bringing access to the best of DeFi through strategic investments and partnerships.
Serum, a non-custodial decentralized exchange operating on the Solana blockchain, was created by FTX, Alamada Research, and several other partners through the Serum Foundation.
“WonderFi’s investment in the Solana ecosystem furthers our mission of making finance more accessible and will provide exposure to one of the fastest growing segments of DeFi,” said WonderFi CEO, Ben Samaroo. “Further, we are thrilled to continue working with Sam Bankman-Fried as we are aligned in our vision and future of crypto and decentralized finance.”
WonderFi Technologies Inc. (NEO: WNDR)(OTC:WONDF) also invested alongside Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, Temasek, Sequoia Capital and 65 other investors in the US$420M Series B-1 round of FTX Trading Ltd. (“FTX”), the global cryptocurrency company founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, a strategic investor in WonderFi Technologies Inc. (NEO: WNDR)(OTC:WONDF). WonderFi Technologies Inc.’s (NEO: WNDR)(OTC:WONDF) investments in the Incentive Ecosystem Foundation and FTX totaled $1M USD.
ABOUT WONDERFI
WonderFi Technologies Inc. (NEO: WNDR)(OTC:WONDF) is a leading technology company with the mission of creating better access to DeFi through the core principles of simplicity and education. WonderFi Technologies Inc. (NEO: WNDR)(OTC:WONDF) has a multi-pronged business strategy which includes a high-growth consumer finance app which will serve as a trusted gateway to the new financial system, and a digital asset portfolio which consists of leading crypto and DeFi assets. WonderFi Technologies Inc.’s (NEO: WNDR)(OTC:WONDF) executive team and Board of Directors have an established track record in finance and crypto, with previous experience at Amazon, Shopify, PayPal, Galaxy Digital, Hut 8 and BIGG Digital. WonderFi Technologies Inc.’s (NEO: WNDR)(OTC:WONDF) core team of engineers and technologists believe that everyone should have equal access to finance, and are aligned in the mission to empower people around the world to access DeFi in a simple, smart and secure way. For more information, visit www.wonder.fi.
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