Sergey Makarov

Valeri Borisovich Kharlamov (Russian: Вале́рий Бори́сович Харла́мов, IPA: [vɐˈlʲerʲɪj bɐˈrʲisəvʲɪtɕ xɐrˈlaməf]; 14 January 1948 – 27 August 1981) was an ice hockey forward who played for CSKA Moscow in the Soviet League from 1967 until his death in 1981. Although small in stature, Kharlamov was a speedy, intelligent, skilled and dominant player, being named the Soviet Championship League most valuable player in 1972 and 1973. An offensive player, who was considered very creative on the ice, he also led the league in scoring in 1972. He was also a gifted skater who was able to make plays at top speed. Kharlamov was considered one of the best players of his era, as well as one of the greatest players of all time.

In international play, Kharlamov represented the Soviet Union at 11 World Championships, winning 8 gold medals, 2 silvers and 1 bronze. He participated in three Olympics, 1972, 1976 and 1980, finishing with two gold medals and a silver, and participated in the 1972 Summit Series against Canada. He spent most of his career playing on a line with Vladimir Petrov and Boris Mikhailov, and this trio is considered one of the best in the history of ice hockey.

Kharlamov was killed in a car accident in 1981. After his death, Kharlamov was elected to the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame, the Hockey Hall of Fame, the Russian Hockey Hall of Fame and was selected as one of the forwards on the IIHF Centennial All-Star Team. The Kharlamov Trophy is presented annually to the best Russian hockey player in the NHL, as chosen by his peers. The Kharlamov Cup is presented to the champion of the Minor Hockey League playoffs, and the Kontinental Hockey League named one of their four divisions after him.

KAMAZ Group of Companies is the largest truck producer in the Russian Federation. KAMAZ PTC is one of the world's top 20 heavy duty truck producers and ranks 14th by production volumes of heavy-duty trucks with GVW exceeding 16 tonnes.

Production capacity is 71 thousand vehicles a year.

The company is part of Rostec State Corporation.

The charter capital of KAMAZ comprises 35.36 bn rubles. The largest blocks of stock are owned by the government and commercial banks.

One single production base of KAMAZ PTC Group of Organizations incorporates the overall truck manufacturing cycle, beginning fr om design, manufacture, assembly of vehicles and components and ending up with sales of finishd products and service backup.

The process flow group includes several major plants involved in truck making business. The following operations are located on the industrial site in Naberezhnye Chelny: Foundry and Forge Plant, Engine Plant, Press and Stamping Plant, Truck Assembly Plant, Repair and Tool Making Plant, Master Industrial Park. Major subsidiaries situated outside Naberezhnye Chelny are NEFAZ PTC and TZA PTC (Republic of Bashkortostan).

KAMAZ Group of Companies comprises more than 100 organizations based in Russia, the former Soviet Union republics and other foreign countries.

The average headcount of the KAMAZ process flow group for twelve months of 2021 is 31,740 persons.

In total, 44,136 units were produced in 2021, which is by 18% more than in 2020 (37,345 units). In January 2022, 3,406 vehicle sets were made (+117 to the business plan, 1,843 units for the same period last year).

Also, in 2021, 47,949 engines and power units were manufactured (40,848 units, +17% year-over-year). In January 2022, 3,726 engines and power units were produced and delivered to the truck assembly plant and other customers (+81 units to the planned figure, 2,226 units for the same period last year).

For 2021, spare parts were delivered to the sum of 30.7 billion rubles (25.04 billion rubles, +22.6% in 2020), and, in January 2022, to the sum of more than 1.79 billion roubles (+184 million roubles to the planned figure, 1.4 billion roubles for the same period last year).

KAMAZ Group received high financial results for six months of 2021 (according to IFRS). The consolidated revenue of KAMAZ PTC reached 118,853 million rubles, which is 40% higher than last year. The company's net profit amounted to RUB 3,969 million (+3,937 million rubles y-o-y). EBITDA for the reporting period increased 1.8 times and amounted to RUB 10,996 million (6 months of 2020: RUB 6,062 million).

The growth driver is an increase in truck sales by 45%, compared to the first six months of 2020. Revenue fr om truck sales for the first half of 2021 was received in the amount of 77,837 million rubles, a y-o-y increase made 60%.

The segment of buses, electric buses and special equipment showed a significant growth in sales (+47% to last year's figures).

According to preliminary data, for 11 months of 2021 KAMAZ gained 234.7 billion rubles, EBITDA amounted to 19.3 billion rubles – this is plus 24% to the business plan and plus 48% to the level of 2020.

The market capitalization of the company as of the beginning of December is 71.5 billion rubles, which is a result KAMAZ Group's record financial indicators over the past few years in 2020 and the 1st half of 2021.

KAMAZ PTC is still the top producer of trucks with GVW exceeding 14 tonnes, winning 47% of this market. At the same time, the share of tractors sold under the KAMAZ brand today exceeds 30%. The share grew thanks to the launch of the K4 and the latest K5 generation models.e

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What Is Binance Coin (BNB)?

Launched in July 2017, Binance is the biggest cryptocurrency exchange globally based on daily trading volume. Binance aims to bring cryptocurrency exchanges to the forefront of financial activity globally. The idea behind Binance’s name is to show this new paradigm in global finance — Binary Finance, or Binance.

Aside from being the largest cryptocurrency exchange globally, Binance has launched a whole ecosystem of functionalities for its users. The Binance network includes the Binance Chain, Binance Smart Chain, Binance Academy, Trust Wallet and Research projects, which all employ the powers of blockchain technology to bring new-age finance to the world. Binance Coin is an integral part of the successful functioning of many of the Binance sub-projects.

Who Are the Founders of Binance Coin?

Changpeng Zhao is the founder and CEO of Binance. In 2001, Zhao joined Bloomberg as head of tradebook futures development. He spent four years with the company and later joined Fusion Systems as a partner.

Since 2013, Changpeng Zhao has been actively involved with blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. He became head of development at Blockchain, and in 2015 he founded BijieTech. In 2017, Zhao officially launched Binance, and he has been the CEO of the company ever since.

He Yi is a co-founder and chief marketing officer at Binance. She started her career as a TV anchor and presenter on China Travel TV in 2012. Later, in 2014, Yi co-founded OKCoin, which was the largest fiat-to-crypto exchange in China at the time. In 2017, she joined forces with Changpeng Zhao, and together they created the largest crypto exchange globally — Binance.

What Makes Binance Coin Unique?

Binance is a unique ecosystem of decentralized, blockchain-based networks. The company has grown to be the leading crypto exchange in a number of countries, and their side organizations are attracting significant interest as well.

One of the biggest competitive advantages Binance has is its drive for development. While the company started only as a crypto exchange back in 2017, today, Binance has spread its services among numerous different spheres. According to the company website, its mission is to become the infrastructure services provider for the entire blockchain ecosystem.

Since launching the Binance Coin, the exchange has also benefited from increased investor interest in the token. BNB went through a significant price increase at the beginning of 2021, which has put it on the map of enterprise investors.

Measures like BEP-95 have upgraded the already deflationary tokenomics to make BNB even more deflationary. Following the proposal, gas fees on Binance Smart Chain have become even lower, as the network burns a part of the fees to decentralize further. The proposal was modeled after Ethereum's famous EIP-1559.

This has helped Binance overcome several exploits of protocols on BSC, such as a $200M exploit of Pancake Bunny and several hacks of Cream Finance. Despite these hacks, users return to Binance for its low fees and the abundance of lucrative meme coins in its ecosystem.

Qredo works at the cutting-edge of cybersecurity and blockchain. By utilizing the latest innovations in cryptography and distributed ledger technology, Qredo delivers a powerful global network for securing and trading digital assets.

Who are the core Qredo Team? Anthony Foy, the CEO, is a Digital veteran and serial entrepreneur. He has 20+ years experience in VC-backed growth companies with 4 successful exits. Anthony teamed up with Brian Spector, the CPTO, who is a Cyber Security expert and serial entrepreneur with a background in advanced cryptography.

In Q1 2021 Josh Goodbody joined Qredo as the COO - he is a well known operational executive with experience in scaling the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges (e.g. Binance, Huobi Global).

What does QRDO Do? The QRDO token provides a means of utility and governance to the Qredo Network. Qredo is designed to include a “user centric” incentive structure that economically favors the participants of the Qredo Network - driving user adoption and utilization of the network. The design takes into consideration the incentives required for each participant to drive a network effect. QRDO can be staked with validators and staking yield earned. Unique to Qredo, unvested QRDO are automatically staked and accrue staking yield.

What Is Polkadot (DOT)?

Polkadot

is an open-source sharded multichain protocol

Polkadot is known as a layer-0 metaprotocol because it underlies and describes a format for a network of layer 1 blockchains known as parachains (parallel chains). As a metaprotocol, Polkadot is also capable of autonomously and forklessly updating its own codebase via on-chain governance according to the will of its token holder community.

Polkadot provides a foundation to support a decentralized web, controlled by its users, and to simplify the creation of new applications, institutions and services.

The Polkadot protocol can connect public and private chains, permissionless networks, oracles and future technologies, allowing these independent blockchains to trustlessly share information and transactions through the Polkadot Relay Chain (explained further down).

Polkadot’s native DOT token serves three clear purposes: staking for operations and security, facilitating network governance, and bonding tokens to connect parachains .

Polkadot has four core components:

Relay Chain: Polkadot’s “heart,” helping to create consensus, interoperability and shared security across the network of different chains;

Parachains: independent chains that can have their own tokens and be optimized for specific use cases;

Parathreads: similar to parachains but with flexible connectivity based on an economical pay-as-you-go model;

Bridges: allow parachains and parathreads to connect and communicate with external blockchains like Ethereum.

Who Are the Founders of Polkadot?

Polkadot is the flagship protocol of Web3 Foundation, a Swiss Foundation with a mission to facilitate an open-source, fully functional and user-friendly decentralized web.

Polkadot’s founders are Dr. Gavin Wood, Robert Habermeier and Peter Czaban.

Wood, Web3 Foundation’s president, is the most well-known of the trio thanks to his industry influence as Ethereum co-founder, Parity Technologies founder and the creator of the smart contract coding language Solidity. Wood is also credited with coining the term Web3.

Habermeier is a Thiel Fellow and accomplished blockchain and cryptography researcher and developer. Czaban is the former Technology Director at Web3 Foundation, with a wealth of experience across highly specialized fintech industries.

What Makes Polkadot Unique?

Polkadot is a sharded multichain network, meaning it can process many transactions on several chains in parallel (“parachains”). This parallel processing power improves scalability.

Custom blockchains are quick and easy to develop using the Substrate framework and Substrate blockchains are designed to be easy to connect to Polkadot's network. The network is also highly flexible and adaptive, allowing the sharing of information and functionality between participants. Polkadot can be automatically upgraded without the need for a fork in order to implement new features or remove bugs.

The network has a highly sophisticated user-driven governance system where all token holders have a vote in how the network is run. Teams can customize their own blockchain’s governance on Polkadot based on their needs and evolving conditions. Nominators, validators, and collators all fulfil various duties to help secure and maintain the network and eradicate bad behavior.