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We are excited to announce that the BCware NFT App on Shopify store is now live on
the zkSync Era Mainnet. This innovative app offers online merchants and creators a fast
and seamless way to mint, sell, and manage NFTs directly from their Shopify stores. It
automates workflows and streamlines the process of transactions, allowing users to
mint NFTs in real-time, directly from their storefronts, making it a game-changer for
small and large businesses alike. The app is available to artists, merchants, buyers,
collectors, and forward-thinking organizations who are seeking a more efficient way to
create, buy, and sell NFTs in the evolving digital landscape.

Blockchain-based businesses often grapple with prolonged transaction times and
excessive gas fees – stumbling blocks that have hindered web 3 adoption including the
realm of NFTs. However, BCWare NFT App offers a seamless Shopify integration for
merchants to list their NFTs, while enabling a fast, secure and cost-effective way for
users to mint NFTS. Leveraging the power of zkSync Era’s scalability solution, BCware
adeptly navigates these challenges by moving transactions from the congested
Ethereum mainnet to an efficient layer-2, facilitating near-instant transaction
confirmations and a seamless user experience.

Additionally, BCware doesn’t stop at speed; it enhances accessibility with zkSync’s use
of zero-knowledge rollups to significantly cut gas fees. This reduction makes minting
and selling NFTs more affordable for merchants, and encourages buyer participation in
the NFT market, ultimately driving web3 adoption. Together, BCware and zkSync are
ushering in a new era, scaling Ethereum and setting the stage for a more inclusive, and
efficient NFT industry.

Key features of the BCware NFT App on zkSync Mainnet include:

• Easy NFT Minting: Create unique digital assets with just a few clicks. Whether
  you are an artist, musician, or brand, you can mint NFTs representing your digital
  art, music, collectibles, and more.
• Seamless Integration: The BCware NFT App integrates directly with your store,
  allowing you to manage your NFT inventory alongside your physical products.
• Instant Transactions: Powered by zkSync Mainnet, the app offers near-instant
  transaction confirmations, ensuring a smooth and frictionless experience for both
  merchants and buyers.
• Low Gas Fees: Eliminate exorbitant Ethereum gas fees. With zkSync’s layer-2
  technology, you can enjoy ultra-low gas fees for minting and transferring NFTs.
• Secure and Decentralized: The BCware NFT App is built on the secure and
  decentralized zkSync Mainnet, providing the peace of mind that your NFTs are
  safe and secure.

By integrating NFTs into your e-commerce site, you can:

• Monetize your digital creations: Sell NFTs representing your digital art, music,
  videos, and more, unlocking new revenue streams.
• Engage with your community: Offer exclusive NFTs to your most loyal fans,
  fostering a deeper connection with your audience.
• Drive brand innovation: Create limited-edition NFTs for product launches,
  promotions, and collaborations, adding a new dimension to your brand
  experience.

Get Started with the BCware NFT App

The BCware NFT App is available for download on the Shopify App Store. Get started
today and discover the endless possibilities that NFTs can bring to your e-commerce
business.

San Francisco, California, October 19, 2022 – As merchants and their agencies look to move non-fungible token (NFT) projects from successful pilots into full production, they need a way to rapidly and efficiently scale. The multichain BCware NFT app addresses this demand with a new bulk upload feature that streamlines the large-scale integration of NFTs with physical products. It is available today in the Shopify App Store to all eligible Shopify Plus merchants participating in the NFT Beta Program.

The multichain BCware NFT app offers unprecedented flexibility to bundle NFTs with real-world products and let consumers pay with crypto or fiat currency. It provides full, transparent multichain support for the purchase and sale of NFTs, including Ethereum, Flow, Polygon, and Solana blockchain platforms. Gone are the days of binding an NFT project to a specific blockchain. Because BCware lets merchants select the minting tools and blockchains that meet their needs, merchants have a future-proof solution for making intelligent minting decisions that consider market reach, minting fees, and buyer experience.

The addition of the new bulk upload feature to the BCware NFT app supports the requirements of large e-commerce sites built by merchants and Shopify agencies that have anywhere from hundreds to thousands of inventory items. Now the organizations running these sites can simply upload NFTs, along with all relevant metadata, in bulk either through a GraphQL application programming interface (API) or a comma-separated values (CSV) file.

“Increasingly, merchants are using NFTs to drive new revenue streams and customer loyalty, but too often their NFT projects get stalled in the effort to move beyond proof of concept to large-scale production,” said Tugrul Firatli, BCware founder and CEO. “The new bulk upload feature of our multichain BCware NFT app, which is powered by our enterprise-grade BCware Platform, enables merchants and their agencies to build large-scale Shopify e-commerce sites quickly and flexibly.”

Designed for Scale

The BCware NFT app is powered by BCware’s unique blockchain-agnostic, multichain BCware Platform, and it is built on BCware’s groundbreaking product, BCflow, a low-code workflow automation engine designed to accelerate enterprise Web3 adoption. As a result, organizations adding new user experiences can take advantage of the same business flows already running in BCflow.

Because BCflow is designed for scale, large enterprises can be confident in their ability to scale NFT projects from pilot to production, or from minimally viable offerings to full-scale solutions. At the same time, API access to BCware Flows enables developers to customize experiences without compromising or complicating reuse, so they can deliver new features quickly.

Additionally, the administration and monitoring of bulk uploads is inherited from the BCware Platform, which provides deep analytics on user behavior and Web2 integration.

Availability and Pricing

BCware NFT is available today in the Shopify App Store. Pricing starts at $49 per month.

About BCware

Founded by enterprise integration pioneers who digitized Wall Street, BCware has preemptively built the Web2/Web3 integration and workflow automation platform that leading industry analysts have identified as central to a new generation of e-commerce and community. Whether your definition of Web3 is decentralized finance, tokengated commerce, or connecting communities around shared values, BCware can help bridge the gap between traditional Web2 applications and protocols and Web3 blockchains and services.

Please reach out to Crispin Clarke at BCware (crispin at bcware.io) or visit https://bcware.io to learn more.

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San Francisco, California, June 23, 2022 – More merchants are adding non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to their online stores, but too often, sales are hindered by technology interoperability issues and the limitation of consumers’ preferred payment options. Now, using the new multichain BCware NFT app available in the Shopify App Store, eligible Shopify Plus merchants participating in the NFT Beta Program have unprecedented flexibility to bundle NFTs with real-world products and let consumers pay with crypto or credit cards of their choice.

In the first half of 2022 alone, the volume of on-chain activity from NFTs has grown over 200% to more than $62 billion, according to IntotheBlock. Yet, most applications still require merchants to create a new wallet specific to the NFT minting chain. With few resources to add support for multiple blockchains, these brands risk customer frustration and abandoned shopping carts.

By contrast, the BCware NFT app is powered by BCware’s unique blockchain-agnostic, multi-chain platform. It provides full, transparent support for the purchase and sale of NFTs minted across many of the mainstream blockchains. Because BCware lets merchants select the minting tools and blockchains that meet their needs, merchants have a future-proof solution for making intelligent minting decisions that consider market reach, minting fees, and buyer experience.

“Whether buying NFT artwork or a limited-edition brand NFT, consumers want the ability to choose their preferred form of payment,” said Tugrul Firatli, BCware founder and CEO. “Now with our multichain BCware NFT app on the Shopify App Store, merchants can create the flexible shopping experience that consumers demand by using their choice of crypto wallets and chains instead of forcing technology on them.”

Selling and buying NFTs through the NFT Beta Program on Shopify is simple with the BCware NFT app:

• Eligible merchants can create their content using familiar tools, then upload the work to their Shopify storefront with BCware, which creates an NFT product page.
• Eligible merchants can choose the chains that make sense for their community and accept payment via cryptocurrency or fiat (credit cards).
• Buyers need a crypto wallet to receive their newly minted NFTs, and BCware provides a great experience by managing wallet onboarding for buyers who are new to crypto.
• NFTs can be sold with real-world products, enabling eligible merchants to offer innovative bundles, increase cart value, and create brand loyalty that blends real and virtual worlds.

“We’re happy to welcome the BCware NFT app to the Shopify App Store to help merchants build creative commerce experiences,” said John S. Lee, Lead of Blockchain Ecosystem at Shopify. “Our growing blockchain ecosystem demonstrates our commitment to supporting merchants as they sell NFTs directly through their storefronts, helping to further grow participation in Web3 and expand what’s possible in commerce.”

Availability and Pricing

BCware NFT is available today in the Shopify App Store. Pricing starts at $49 per month.

About BCware

Founded by enterprise integration pioneers who digitized Wall Street, BCware has preemptively built the Web2/Web3 integration and workflow orchestration platform that leading industry analysts have identified as central to a new generation of networked commerce and community. Whether your definition of Web3 is decentralized finance, tokengated commerce, or connecting communities around shared values, BCware can help bridge the gap between traditional Web2 applications and protocols and Web3 blockchains and services.

Please reach out to Crispin Clarke at BCware (crispin at bcware.io) or visit https://bcware.io learn more.

All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 

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San Francisco, California and Berlin, Germany, March 30, 2022 – Smart Contracts are the future of financial services as more companies seek to innovate new decentralized finance (DeFi) products built on blockchain. However, many current solutions struggle to meet the demanding standards of the financial services industry. BCC Group, BCware, and Synadia today announced that they have partnered to address this challenge through the joint development of Web3Link.

Currently in beta, the Web3Link platform combines the companies’ best-of-breed solutions to enable traditional finance (TradFi) organizations to seamlessly integrate off-chain and on-chain market data into smart contract applications. As a result, capabilities required by financial services and other highly regulated industries will be available to developers building decentralized finance apps. These capabilities—which have taken decades to mature in traditional market data solutions and are table-stakes in the traditional financial world— include entitlements, compliance, and ultra-low latency, among others.

“We are still in the early stages of the technology adoption lifecycle for smart contracts even though the $1.85T digital asset market is growing rapidly,” said Tugrul Firatli, BCware founder and CEO. “In order to meet this growth, industry leaders are asking for solutions from software teams with a deep understanding of financial services. That’s why this partnership is important.”

With Web3Link, developers are able to:

• Take advantage of ONE Oracle from BCC Group, a trusted third party for reliable, authenticated pricing data. ONE Oracle will rationalize data to ensure data quality, provide data entitlements, and help protect organizations from exchange-related compliance violations.
• Use Synadia’s NGS ultra-low latency secure communications to provide blockchain applications the same quality of service that today’s TradFi applications depend upon. Real-time event data flow will now be available both on- and off-chain. NATS.io, the messaging infrastructure on which NGS is built, has been deployed globally by thousands of users in production and provides developers seamless network connectivity with transparent scalability and application self-healing.
• Build smart financial solutions that are blockchain agnostic using BCware’s BCflow, an event-driven workflow orchestration engine designed specifically for high performance, multichain applications. By leveraging BCware’s unique blockchain abstraction layer, TradFi firms can innovate faster while future-proofing their development efforts.

Meeting TradFi’s High-Speed Demands

Increasingly, banks are evolving to become “software companies with banking licenses,” and financial services innovation will be delivered to market by developer teams assembling composable capabilities linked through smart contracts. Web3Link delivers the high speed on high availability that will be critical in enabling TradFi organizations to successfully bridge the Web2 and Web3 worlds.

“The integration of off-chain market data with smart contracts requires ultra-low latency and secure communications capabilities that current blockchain solutions can’t provide,” said Derek Collison, Synadia founder and CEO. “Web3Link leverages NGS from Synadia to simplify this integration for our customers who are innovating with smart contracts while ensuring that their applications can meet the demanding performance and real-time requirements of their solutions on a global basis.”

Real-Time Entitled Data Backed by Compliance

With Web3Link, TradFi companies that want to participate in the future of DeFi now have a way to build smart contracts with real-time entitled data, which have a complete set of compliance tools to support the demands of regulation and can be deployed across a variety of blockchains.

“We are very excited to be launching Web3Link. While other oracle vendors are providing a general solution that addresses smart contract requirements across industries, we are pleased to pull together best-of-breed products and a team of experts within the industry.” Said Bill Bierds, BCC Group president and chief business development officer. “Smart contracts are an unstoppable evolutionary step. Web3Link seeks to ensure that financial services can confidently maintain pace with other industries and achieve full value from this exciting capability.”

Web3Link is currently ini beta and will be generally available in early Q3 2022. Learn more about this innovative partnership and Web3Link use cases at https://Web3Link.tech.

About the Web3Link Partnership Companies

BCC Group is a German Software Development Company focusing on highly reliable real-time messaging platforms for all industry sectors. BCC Groups’ core competence is financial market data feeds (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Morningstar, ActivFinancial, ICE, FactSet etc.). This includes resilient, high-performance Feed Handlers and Last-Value-Caches, enforced Entitlements as well as full Excel and HTML5 Integration. Please reach out to Alexander Gonzalez Evans at BCC Group (alexander.gonzalez.evans at bccgi.eu) or visit https://bccgi.eu to learn more.

BCware was founded in 2018 by enterprise integration middleware pioneers with the vision to simplify blockchain integration. Using the BCware platform and APIs, companies can now deliver Web 3.0 and DeFi solutions that incorporate both on-chain and off-chain data, and do so without forcing complexity onto their customers and developers. Please reach out to Crispin Clarke at BCware (crispin at bcware.io) or visit https://bcware.io to learn more.

Synadia was founded in 2017 by Derek Collison. At Synadia we believe there is an opportunity to create the first decentralized secure global utility powered by NATS.io to connect all digital systems, services and devices. Synadia maintains and leads the development of NATS.io software platform that is used by millions across the globe. Along with the NGS offering, Synadia also provides an Enterprise NATS Subscription for organizations desiring to run NATS.io within their own datacenter or cloud of choice. For further information, please contact Steve Dischinger at Synadia (steve at synadia.com) or visit https://synadia.com.