{"id":59590,"date":"2022-04-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59590"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:42:21","slug":"velas-to-launch-blockchain-accelerator-and-a-250-million-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/velas-to-launch-blockchain-accelerator-and-a-250-million-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Velas to launch blockchain accelerator and a $250 million fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Velas blockchain ecosystem announced the launch of a business accelerator and the creation of a $250 million fund to support developers. Participants will receive assistance in developing their projects and investments: $25,000, $50,000, $100,000 and above. The amount of funding depends on the project&#8217;s prospects, the team&#8217;s expertise, the development stage, and other factors.<\/p>\n<p>Applications will be reviewed by experts: developers, analysts, marketers, and designers. The fund&#8217;s launch is planned for the end of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Winners will receive:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>technical expertise and assistance from specialists;<\/li>\n<li>three months of mentorship to help establish workflows;<\/li>\n<li>marketing support, token-sale organization and promotion;<\/li>\n<li>$25,000 and more depending on the complexity and degree of product completion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Velas believes the accelerator&#8217;s work will positively affect the popularity of the VLX token: participants will be able to integrate it into new and existing solutions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI believe the fund will open opportunities for developers and contribute to the Velas ecosystem and the crypto industry at large. For now we have no hard rules: all participants with good ideas can receive help from Velas,\u201d says Velas CEO Farhad Shagulyamov.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The fund and accelerator will operate separately from Velas&#8217;s <a class=\"tracking_link\" href=\"https:\/\/velasgrants.typeform.com\/GrantsProgram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0442\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0439 \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c\u044b<\/a> Velas. Grant recipients will also be able to participate in the accelerator and receive additional investments.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tracking_link\" href=\"https:\/\/velas.com\/ru\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Velas<\/a> is a hybrid eBPF\/EVM blockchain, compatible with smart contracts in Solidity, C and Rust. By leveraging Solana and Ethereum technologies, throughput reaches up to 70,000 transactions per second.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog <a class=\"tracking_link\" href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/chto-takoe-velas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> educational cards about how Velas works.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Velas blockchain ecosystem announced the launch of a business accelerator and the creation of a $250 million fund to support developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"2","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1156,2135,1133],"class_list":["post-59590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-velas","tag-venture-investments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"2","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59592,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59590\/revisions\/59592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}