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KR1 plc - Investment: Shiden Network

PR Newswire

London, June 9

9 June 2021

KR1 PLC

(“KR1” or the “Company”)

Investment: Shiden Network

KR1 plc (KR1:AQSE), a leading digital asset investment company, is pleased to announce the Company’s participation in the Shiden crowdloan and upcoming Kusama (“KSM”) parachain auction. KR1 contributed a total of 10,000 KSM, equivalent to US$4,449,700 at the time of the contribution, to the Shiden crowdloan campaign.

Shiden Network is a smart contract platform and application layer on Kusama, which acts as a research and development chain of the Plasm Network. Shiden natively supports the Ethereum Virtual Machine, WebAssembly and multiple Layer 2 solutions from day one, which enables various applications like DeFi, NFTs and more.

The contributed KSM will be time-locked on the Kusama blockchain for a period of 48 weeks and will be returned to the Company following the completion of the respective Shiden parachain lease. Upon a successful Shiden parachain auction bid, KR1 will receive a to-be-determined amount of Shiden (“SDN”) tokens in return for supporting the Shiden crowdloan campaign. In addition, the Company will also receive a yet-to-be-determined amount of SDN tokens in line with KR1’s previous participation in Plasm's (“PLM”) first and second lockdrop campaign, which will be confirmed in a future announcement.

This method of token distribution involves no direct investment of capital, instead, it is an indirect investment, similar to the Company’s previous participations in ‘lockdrops’, with the opportunity costs being the inaccessibility of the locked KSM funds as well as foregoing any staking yields on the contributed KSM for the time period.

George McDonaugh, Managing Director and Co-Founder of KR1, commented:

“The crowdloans kick-off and initiation of parachain auctions are a historic milestone for Kusama, Polkadot and the wider ecosystem. While delivering bleeding edge technology, the Polkadot and parachain teams are also continuing to innovate in token distribution mechanisms, which will prove to be hugely beneficial for the blockchain community.”

Keld van Schreven, Managing Director and Co-Founder of KR1, commented:

“Plasm’s Shiden Network on Kusama offers developers an improved scalability model, high transaction throughput, cross-chain interoperability, and considerably less time to market to deploy their decentralised applications. Sota, Founder of Plasm, and his team are standout entrepreneurs in the blockchain world and we are honoured to continue to back them and their vision.”

The Directors of KR1 plc accept responsibility for this announcement.

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For further information please contact:


KR1 PLC George McDonaugh Keld van Schreven Simon Nicol	+44 (0)16 2467 6716 [email protected]
Peterhouse Capital Limited Mark Anwyl Allie Feuerlein	(AQSE Corporate Adviser) +44 (0)20 7469 0930
Nominis Advisory Ltd Angus Campbell	(PR Adviser) [email protected]

About KR1 plc

KR1 is a leading digital asset investment company supporting early-stage decentralised and open source blockchain and DeFi projects. Founded in 2016 and publicly traded in London on the APX segment of the AQSE Growth Market (KR1:AQSE), KR1 has built a notable reputation for generating significant returns by investing in many key projects that are designed to power the decentralised platforms and protocols that are emerging to form new internet infrastructures.

www.KR1.io

Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure

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