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Gnosis Safe To Airdrop 50 Million Ethereum Tokens to Wallets

Mercado Libre Launches Its Own Ethereum Cashback Token
Online marketplace Mercado Libre, Latin America’s answer to Amazon, announced the launch of its own cryptocurrency today. The company has launched Mercado Coin for customers in Brazil as an EC...
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Mat Di SalvoAug 18, 2022
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'No Current Plans' for Scrapped V1 CryptoPunks NFTs, Says Yuga Labs
The revival of scrapped “V1” CryptoPunks NFTs from Larva Labs’ original bug-ridden 2017 rollout has added a wrinkle to the debate over provenance, ownership, and artists’ intent in the Web3 wo...
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Andrew HaywardAug 18, 2022
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Rarible Proposes No-Fee Bored Ape NFT Marketplace for ApeCoin Users
Magic Eden’s pitch to build an exclusive Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT marketplace for the ApeCoin community has some competition: marketplace protocol Rarible has launched its own proposal idea to...
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Andrew HaywardAug 18, 2022
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CME Group to Add ETH Options Ahead of the Ethereum Merge
Chicago-based derivatives exchange CME Group plans to launch options on Ethereum futures next month—just days before the long-awaited “merge” upgrade to the Ethereum network completes. CME Gr...
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Mat Di SalvoAug 18, 2022
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Ethereum Fork ETHW Plummets 62% Just Weeks Before Merge
Earlier this month, a group of crypto miners launched a campaign to resist Ethereum’s impending merge—an event that will end the practice of ETH mining—by forking the Ethereum network and crea...
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Sander LutzAug 18, 2022
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