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WeWork founder reinvents himself with $70M crypto carbon credit platform

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Three years after being ousted as CEO of WeWork, Adam Neumann has jumped on the crypto bandwagon, raising $70 million in the first major funding round for his climate tech venture Flowcarbon. The project aims to make carbon trading more accessible by putting carbon credits on the blockchain. Neumann is an Israeli-American businessman and investor famous for his role in founding coworking space provider WeWork in 2010, a company once heralded as the future of work spaces. However, it all came crashing down in 2019 when the company attempted to…

Crypto Firms Launch Community-Powered Scam Reporting Platform ‘Chainabuse’ – Featured Bitcoin News

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Several crypto firms, including Binance and Circle, have launched a new crypto scam reporting platform. The tool “empowers anyone in the crypto economy to warn others about scams, hacks or other fraudulent activity as they encounter it.” New Crypto Scam Reporting Platform Launched A number of crypto firms have joined forces and launched a new, multi-chain scam reporting platform. TRM Labs, Circle, Solana Foundation, the Aave Companies, Hedera, Binance.us, and Civic announced last week “the launch of a new community-powered scam reporting platform, Chainabuse.” The platform, operated by blockchain intelligence…

GameStop unveils beta cryptocurrency wallet and upcoming NFT platform

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American electronics retail firm GameStop has taken a step into the world of cryptocurrencies, unveiling a proprietary blockchain wallet that will feature nonfungible token functionality. The GameStop Wallet will allow gamers to acquire, send and store Ether (ETH), ERC-20 tokens and NFTs through a self-custodial browser extension running on the Ethereum blockchain. A mobile application is also in the works. It’s official! The GameStop Wallet is here. Download: https://t.co/dK2dmRmwRI — GameStopNFT (@GameStopNFT) May 23, 2022 The wallet will run on Ethereum’s Loopring layer-2 scaling protocol designed for decentralized exchanges, which…

Crypto Exchange FTX Launches Zero-Fee Stock Trading Platform for US Customers

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Crypto exchange FTX is jumping into equities trading, launching the beta phase for FTX Stocks. The Bahamas-based exchange has launched FTX Stocks, offering trading and investing in hundreds of US exchange-listed securities, including common stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The platform is integrated into FTX’s existing trading app and is available for select US customers who were selected from a waitlist. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says the exchange’s new equities trading platform won’t charge any fees. “We’re opening stock trading with no Payment for Orderflow and no fees. So what…

Coinbase Becomes Official Cryptocurrency Platform of Seattle Storm

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In an effort to educate investors about the growing market of cryptocurrency assets, Coinbase, one of the largest digital exchanges, recently announced its partnership with Seattle Storm, an American professional basketball team. Seattle Storm competes in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). The details shared by the franchise show that the recent partnership is the first of its kind for a WNBA team. The partnership has also made Coinbase the official cryptocurrency platform of Seattle Storm. “We are excited to partner with Coinbase and that they are joining our Force4Changes…

FTX US Launches Zero-Commission Equities Trading Platform – Bitcoin News

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FTX US announced on Thursday that the firm has launched an equities trading platform called FTX Stocks which will give U.S.-based customers the ability to purchase stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The launch is currently in a private beta phase for select U.S. customers and equities can be purchased with fiat-backed stablecoins. FTX US Launches Beta Equities Trading Platform FTX US customers phased in through the firm’s private beta waitlist can now leverage the platform to purchase stocks and ETFs. The company says the new feature offers hundreds of select…

Meta trademark filing hints at plans for crypto payments platform

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Social media giant Facebook’s parent company, Meta, may be planning to launch a payments platform with support for cryptocurrency.  According to records submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO, on May 13, Meta filed five applications for its namesake to be used in a platform called Meta Pay. The filings included Meta’s name for use in a “online social networking service for investors allowing financial trades and exchange of digital currency, virtual currency, cryptocurrency, digital and blockchain assets, digitized assets, digital tokens, crypto tokens and utility…

Crypto giants co-launch Chainabuse platform to water down rising scams

Seven major crypto companies — Binance.US, Circle, Solana Foundation, The Aave Companies, Hedera, TRM Labs and Civic — joined hands to launch a community-driven scam reporting tool. Named Chainabuse, the tool aims to enable crypto users to issue warnings and discuss ongoing fraudulent activity such as scams and hacks in real-time.  Launched on Wednesday, the Chainabuse platform aims to counter the ongoing scams plaguing the crypto ecosystem. On May 4, Cointelegraph warned the community about the rise in Ape-themed airdrop phishing scams. Chainabuse serves as a one-stop-shop platform for crypto…

Aave launches open-source platform for social networking DApps on Polygon

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Aave (AAVE) has announced a new project called the Lens Protocol that focuses on helping developers build social networking decentralized applications (DApps) on the Polygon blockchain.  Apart from social media DApps, the liquidity market protocol creators aim to use nonfungible token (NFT) technology along with Lens’ open-source blockchain tech to allow developers to create marketplaces, recommendation algorithms and other applications. According to Aave, this will allow users to completely own their own data and give creators new monetization opportunities. Lens Protocol allows users to have a single Lens profile that…