En:BlockRock Staking

## About BR Staking

BR Staking (along with other validators of the Free TON blockchain network, such as P2P Validator, Chorus One, Certus One, etc.) is a professional validator of blockchain networks based on the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus. Thus, the company offers its clients passive income in the form of crypto assets – delegating (staking) tokens to the BR Staking validator.

The characteristics of the company are the following:

* Full financial control and delegation security. BlockRock Betting undergoes a regular security audit by third-party companies.
* The company provides its clients with a multi-coin fully optimized accounting and reporting system with automatic payouts and re-staking.
* BR Betting works according to the principle of individual approach to every client. This method lets them get success in problems of all levels.
* 24/7 support
* Full transparency of operations and control over one’s assets.

18.06.2020 BR Staking launched validation and staking of Free TON.
The BR Staking company is a part of the BR Capital structure.

## About BR Capital

### Briefly about the BR Capital activities

BR Capital is an international company with offices in the UK, Russia, Israel, and Singapore (it is planned to open a new office in the USA), specializing in financial and investment activities, digital asset management, and venture capital.

BlockRock Capital has diversified investment strategies focused on participating in venture capital startups, hybrid investments (capital + tokens), and cryptocurrency trading programs, including algorithmic trading.

BR Capital participates in a patented multi-strategic algorithmic trading with stable income; this tool is neutral to market conditions.

BR Capital partners include such cryptocurrency exchanges as Binance, EXMO, Huobi, and BitFinex.

### The BR Capital team

The main members of the BR Capital team are the following:

1. Raphael - Rezo Shmertz, CEO, Managing Partner. He specializes in token economies. He worked in Corporate Finance at Legacy Square Capital, CFO in Russia-China Trading and Logistics Group. Studied Electronic Engineering at the Technion Institute of Israel and Economics at the Open University of Israel.
2. Shawn Lomtadze, COO, Managing Partner. He worked with the following companies: KAO Corporation — business development; GIVER Group — business development; ORLANDO Management. He is an MD in Finance State University of Russia
3. Ivan Petuhovschii, Partner, Strategy, and Business Development. He is a founder of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Eastern Europe – EXMO.
4. Mike Raitsyn, Advisor. He is an entrepreneur and software developer with over 13 years of experience. He is a founder of leading internet marketing services in Eastern Europe with a total turnover of over $100 million.
5. Eugen Sandmann, Managing Partner, Head of Trading. He is a partner of Terreus Capital AG, MD International Economics from Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf, Germany. he has more than 20 years of professional experience in international quantitative portfolio management and worked for renowned financial institutions in Switzerland and Germany: UBS Geneva, Bank Merck Finck & Privatbankiers Dusseldorf.
6. David Finkelstein, Quantitative Portfolio Manager. Partner at Terreus Capital AG, An expert in portfolio management and capital markets with 17+ years of experience.
7. Alexander Buchman, Managing Partner, Business Development and Integration. He is an entrepreneur and angel investor in multiple ventures, startups, IT, and IOT projects. From early WWW years, he founded Destiny Sphere GmbH - an online gaming development company, including games for social platforms.

### Investment areas of BR Capital

Aggregion Ltd, funded by BR Capital, announced the successful licensing of its distributed data management platform (DDMP) software to Magnit, Russia’s biggest retailer (the chain of grocery stores).

DDMP is a digital marketing tool for media agencies who want more sophisticated customer segmentation capabilities to better adapt advertisements to their audience. Magnit’s platform will allow media agencies to customize targeted advertisements not only based on traditional demographic data (age, gender, income, etc.) but also based on other customer data (his preferences, time of purchases, etc.).

In 2020, BR Capital made a strategic investment in the VirgoX company (a universal platform for trading digital assets focused on stablecoins). Supported by BR Capital, VirgoX will aim to complete the development of products ranging from spot and contract trading, lending, to a global payment system and money transfer system, allowing traders to experience a fully functional trading platform for stablecoins.

Also in 2020, BR Capital, together with the ParaFi and D1 projects, joined Nectar DAO to support the DeversiFi team (a cryptocurrency exchange built using StarkWare zkSTARK Layer 2 scaling technology that allows it to perform the industry's first more than 9,000 transactions per second via the user interface or API).

## Blockchain networks supported

The official website states that the BR Staking company is a validator of the following blockchain networks:

1. Free TON is a fifth-generation blockchain network that includes the advantages of all existing blockchain projects.
2. Serum is a Solana blockchain-based platform for DeFi applications.

It is planned to work with Keep Network and Ethereum 2.0 after these blockchains are launched.

## References

1. BR Staking official website
2. BR Capital official website
3. BR Capital on Twitter
4. BR Capital on Linkedin
5. BR Capital on Medium
6. BR Capital on Facebook
7. АМА session with BR Capital