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Astra, a leading infrastructure provider for faster payments, today announced a strategic partnership with Till Financial, a leader in collaborative family banking, to enhance Till's mission of empowering kids and teens to become smarter spenders with seamless financial solutions designed for families.

Astra, a leading infrastructure provider for faster payments, today extended its partnership with Plaid, a data network powering the digital financial ecosystem, to provide a unified solution for securely embedding instant transfers into fintech products.

Moves, the banking app built exclusively for gig workers, today announced a partnership with Astra, the all-in-one platform for faster payments, to offer members real-time transfers using Visa Direct, Visa’s real-time push-to-card payments platform.

Astra, a leading provider of infrastructure for faster payments, today announced a partnership with Alloy, the identity risk management company, to streamline the onboarding process for existing Alloy customers to leverage Astra’s advanced transfer technology in their applications.

Astra, a leading provider of infrastructure for faster payments, today announced a partnership with Fortress Trust, a leading custodial trust company in the blockchain infrastructure space, to bring enhanced security and real-time settlement to new use cases within financial technology. By combining their respective best-in-class solutions, the two companies offer customers a faster, more secure, and more efficient payment solution for Web3 and cryptocurrency products.

Astra, a leading provider of instant payments infrastructure in the U.S., was named to the Embedded Fintech 50, a list launched by GGV Capital in partnership with Crunchbase, to recognize the most promising fintech companies in the eyes of startup investors.

Astra, the automation platform for money movement, has been awarded the System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2) Type 2 Certification, validating the company’s dedication to delivering the highest level of security to customers. SOC 2 is an auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) that is intended to help organizations prevent unauthorized access to their digital assets and customer data.

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND / ACCESSWIRE / December 22, 2021 / Astra Protocol is pleased to announce it has secured $9 million through its token raise. In addition, top-tier investment groups and individuals have backed the project, confirming the need for decentralized compliance in the decentralized finance industry. Things are progressing rapidly for Astra and its globally patented protocol. The initiative focuses on equipping DeFi smart contracts

Astra, Inc. (“Astra”), the automation platform for money movement, today announced the launch of its first-ever card-to-card instant payment API. Through a strategic partnership with Cross River Bank (“Cross River”), a technology-driven financial services organization that provides core infrastructure and embedded financial solutions, Astra is providing the critical infrastructure that will, for the first time, enable fintech developers to fund accounts and facilitate deposits via the debit card payment rails.

Astra, a technology company that offers advanced bank-to-bank transfer solutions, today announced a formal partnership with Plaid, a data network powering the digital financial ecosystem, to offer an integrated solution for developers to easily enable programmatic money movement for their customers.

Astra (Nasdaq: ASTR), the fastest company to reach space, will report financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended June 30, 2021, after the market close on Thursday, August 12, 2021.

Astra announced today that Stratos Davlos joined the company as Senior Vice President of Software. Davlos has extensive background in artificial intelligence and machine learning with senior leadership roles at IBM Watson and Apple.

Astra, the fastest privately funded company in history to reach space, announced today its planned acquisition of Apollo Fusion in a transaction valued up to $145 million. Apollo Fusion manufactures a leading electric propulsion engine. This acquisition allows Astra to provide launch and space services beyond low Earth orbit (LEO), to medium Earth orbit, geosynchronous, and lunar orbits.

Astra, the fastest privately funded company in history to reach space, named Planet, the leading provider of global, daily satellite imagery and geospatial solutions, as a holder of a multi-launch contract, with plans to begin launching in the near future.