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Facebook Seeks Counsel to Forge Blockchain Partnerships for New Products

Facebook is looking to hire a lead commercial counsel for blockchain to negotiate "partnerships needed to launch new products."

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Square Is Hiring New Crypto Engineers — And It Wants to Pay Them in Bitcoin

Payments startup Square wants to bring on crypto-focused engineers and designers, and may pay them in bitcoin.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (U.S. House of Representatives)

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Fortune 500 Tech Firm Avnet Now Accepts Crypto Payments via BitPay

Avnet, one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and services, is now accepting crypto payments through BitPay.

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IBM Signs 6 Banks to Issue Stablecoins and Use Stellar's XLM Cryptocurrency

Six banks have signed up to issue stablecoins through World Wire, an IBM network built on the Stellar blockchain.

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A Lightning API for Bitcoin Futures Data Has Launched

An experimental service that allows users to pay for futures data from exchanges Kraken and BitMEX via the lightning network is now live.

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Banking Startup Launching Visa Card That Lets You Spend 7 Cryptos

Banking startup 2gether is launching a prepaid Visa debit card that allows eurozone-based users to spend cryptocurrencies.

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Bitfury Integration to Bring Bitcoin Lightning Payments to More Merchants

The Bitfury Group has partnered with business payments processor HadePay to bring lightning network-based bitcoin payments to merchants.

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Binance's Trust Wallet Adds Support for XRP, Credit Card Payments

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance’s official wallet, Trust Wallet, has added support for XRP and credit card payments.

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IBM Scores Deal With US Credit Union Group to Use Hyperledger Blockchain

Credit union consortium CULedger will use IBM's Hyperledger Fabric, in addition to several other blockchains it's been working with.

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